Justice Kagan’s Supreme Court

Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

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Sarah Isgur and David French break down the biggest takeaways from the Supreme Court’s latest term using SCOTUSblog’s stat pack as their guide. They also explain the outcomes in the Texas explicit content case and the “pride puppy” case. The Agenda:—OT25 in review—The most influential justice—What makes a case “important”—Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton—Explaining tiers of scrutiny—The pride puppy case—Curriculum opt-outs— Mahmoud v. Taylor This episode is brought to you by Burford Capital, the leading global finance firm focused on law. Burford helps companies and law firms unlock the value of their legal assets. With a $7.2 billion portfolio and listings on the NYSE and LSE, Burford provides capital to finance high-value commercial litigation and arbitration—without adding cost, risk, or giving up control. Clients include Fortune 500 companies and Am Law 100 firms, who turn to Burford to pursue strong claims, manage legal costs, and accelerate recoveries. Learn more at ⁠burfordcapital.com/ao⁠. Advisory Opinions is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Advisory Opinions is presented by Burford Capital, the leading finance firm focused on law.
0:09.0	Ready?
0:10.0	I was born ready. Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And I'm feeling a little bit overwhelmed by everything we're going to need to cover in this episode. But look, we're going to do
0:38.1	the stat pack for the term. I'm going to give you an overview of all the cases that were decided
0:43.0	on the last day. We're going to dive in to Paxton, the porn case, and Mahmood, the Pride Puppie case,
0:52.1	and revisit Birthright Citizenship with David, and hopefully we haven't
0:58.4	gone three hours to do all of that. So all that and more coming up on advisory opinions.
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1:36.8	All right, David, we've got to be efficient.
1:39.1	We've got to be succinct.
1:41.0	We've got to be thoughtful.
1:41.9	We've got to do this.
1:43.9	So I want to start with the
1:46.6	stat pack. I want to read you a few of the top line statistics from this term and just let's
1:53.8	just talk the term for a few minutes. Okay. 42% of the cases were decided unanimously. That was a
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