Listener Mailbag Part I

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

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🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

On today’s holiday mailbag edition of the podcast, David and Sarah answer a series of listener questions ranging from legal history to college football. Do you have to admit guilt to accept a pardon? Are there any wrongfully decided Supreme Court cases that are still on the books? Is there a secular argument for prohibiting abortion or does restricting the practice entirely depend on adopting religious doctrine in the public square? Are tier 2 or tier 3 law schools worth attending? What are the best books of the year? What is the constitutionality of factoring race into vaccine distribution? And MORE! Tune in to hear the breakdown. Show Notes: -A brief history of pardons from Smithsonian magazine. -Korematsu v. United States, Buck v. Bell, Roe v. Wade, Kelo v. City of New London, Schenck v. United States, Employment Division v. Smith, Monell v. Department of Social Services, Brandenburg v. Ohio, Skinner v. Oklahoma, Trump v. Hawaii. -38 states with fetal homicide laws. -Qualified immunity doctrine. -“Books to Read If You’re Tired of Hearing About Impeachment” by Sarah Isgur in The Dispatch. -Sarah’s book recommendations: The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff, She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley, Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard. -David’s book recommendations: Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation by David French, Rhythm of War: The Stormlight Archive, Book 4 by Brandon Sanderson, The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan Hatch. 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 a holiday mail bag edition of the advisory opinions podcast. This is David
0:25.9	French. This area is good. And today we're going to answer reader mail. Well, let me, let
0:31.3	me qualify that. It's going to be some combination of reader email, reader text message. Yes,
0:39.3	text message. So I have friends who text me after they listen to the podcast. And one,
0:46.0	one, a couple of friends texted with some good topical questions.
0:49.8	Reader discord comments. So yes, I lurk in this discord channel that's been informally
0:54.9	created to follow, did I say Caleb producer says I've been saying readers, not listeners.
1:05.5	Listener mail, Sarah. Listener mail. So anyway, many people have sent us spoke, signal
1:11.8	flares and spoke signals from a variety of different platforms. And today we respond.
1:19.0	And there are some really good questions, very good questions ranging from everything
1:23.2	from sports, where I'm going to do battle with my LSU listeners after last podcast to politics
1:31.7	and law, to constitutional core constitutional concerns and hot button culture war topics.
1:38.1	So as Sarah says on the second tier dispatch podcast, let's dive right in. Sarah, let's
1:47.6	start topical. And you had some good questions regarding pardons in the news. There is possibility
1:57.3	of a series of pardons being issued by the president, perhaps even trying to pardon himself.
2:06.9	And here's here are the questions. And we all know, for example, that the pardon power
2:12.8	is pretty darn absolute. But the question that you were asked is do you have to admit
2:19.9	guilt to accept a pardon if you accept the pardon, are you saying that I committed the
2:26.2	offense for which I'm being pardoned? Sarah.
2:31.2	Yeah, so thank you, Emmy, for writing in his question. Actually, I'm just assuming it's
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