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Advisory Opinions

Last Dance for Pandemic Law

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

After duking it out over their Super Bowl disagreement, David and Sarah get into the meat of today’s episode: The ongoing saga of religious liberty in the age of pandemic law. On Friday, the Supreme Court partly sided with a California church’s First Amendment challenge to religious service restrictions enacted by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Per David: “Pandemic law—while not entirely gone—is mostly dead.” Stay tuned to hear about technology company Smartmatic’s lawsuit against Fox News, Trump’s First Amendment defense in his impeachment trial, and more. Show Notes: -South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Gavin Newsom. -Typography for Lawyers by Matthew Butterick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You ready?

0:02.0

I was born ready.

0:04.0

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast post super bowl edition and we've got lots of interesting stuff to cover.

0:29.0

We're going to start with a raging legal dispute regarding the Super Bowl that broke out in internal dispatch communication channels in the middle of the game.

0:42.0

So this is going to be like, you know, blowing the lid off of off of like say New York Times Slack channels Sarah.

0:49.0

This is blowing the lid off of dispatch group texts.

0:53.0

So we're going to have to settle it you and I we had a legal dispute.

0:58.0

I throw it down on group text.

1:02.0

Then we're going to talk about a ruling for on California churches, the continuing saga of California churches and pandemic law.

1:11.0

We're going to talk briefly about a giant lawsuit filed by smartmatic against a whole collection of people, including Fox News leading Fox News and leading Fox News personalities.

1:27.0

And then we're going to also discuss Trump's first amendment defense to in his impeachment trial.

1:36.0

And then we've got a few other additional details, including a wedding invitation to discuss at the end Sarah.

1:45.0

So, but first let's start about start with the Super Bowl.

1:58.0

All right, you know, look, you don't tune in here for for football commentary.

2:04.0

This is a legal political nerd podcast.

2:08.0

So, this is the, I have a poll on the board, but you know, this is one of the great things that you can hear from Tony Romo's prophecy.

2:15.0

And how Tony Romo is the greatest of the great in football commentators, because he had said repeatedly that Kansas City holds, Kansas City holds.

2:23.0

They have a defensive, they even showed this video evidence of how much Kansas City holds wide receivers.

2:35.0

holds because the passes.

2:36.8

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

2:38.5

Well, those weren't penalties.

2:40.4

Those weren't penalties because the passes were uncatchable.

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