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Lobotomizing the DOJ

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and David answer listener emails, covering everything from judicial federalism, to the Supreme Court’s upcoming tech term, to potential SCOTUS reforms. The Agenda: —Constitutionality of the special counsel —The Nixon precedent —Independent judgment of lower courts —Predictability and the rule of law —The Texas pornography case: children’s rights or adult’s rights? —Injunctions as extraordinary relief —Biden’s proposed SCOTUS reforms —The grossness of ethics violations Show Notes: —Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto —United States v. Nixon —Advisory Opinions episode on NetChoice v. Moody —Texas’ H.B. 1181 —Ginsberg v. New York —The “Angry Cheerleader” case —Judge Bibas’ Third Circuit opinion on assault weapons —Federalist Papers No. 83 —The Dispatch’s Project 2025 Fact-Check —Presumed Innocent 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. Welcome to Advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And David, we're going to keep this one tight.

0:26.0

We've given the people a lot of content recently. We have some things we need to get through,

0:30.0

but we're not doing any extra beyond what we need to tell you about today, right?

0:34.4

Yeah, yeah. No, this is going to be not Joe Rogan length, no question about it.

0:40.0

Okay, so there's many reasons for that, most of which is this reminds me of when I worked at the

0:46.5

Department of Justice and we had this news cycle in June or so of 2017 where every day at 4 p.m. a massive news story would hit and then we were just there all night and then you'd get back to work the next day and you're sort of like,

1:00.8

huh, kind of what am I doing?

1:03.0

And so you'd like mess around for a few hours and then boom, four o'clock,

1:07.0

like sort of those summer afternoon thunderstorms that you get in the south.

1:11.0

That's what the last several weeks has been here in DC.

1:15.4

Yesterday was no different except I was also traveling so I got home at 1 a.m. and

1:22.1

the brisket was sitting at the top of the stairs just staring down at me in the dark and I was like I looked up

1:29.8

really scared because it was dark and I couldn't really tell who it was and that's never happened before and he said really That would be a little, just a little spooky, had a similar incident with our youngest except just she was standing at the top of the stairs, obviously sleepwalking and babbling. So two, three in the morning.

1:57.3

How old? This would have been five, four, five. The same age. I think he might have been sleep walking because like who just

2:04.3

sits at the top of the stairs it's not like I was home or he could have heard me.

2:07.6

Also let's just ask what husband of the pod was doing that the kid got out of his room got to the

2:12.2

staircase and he had no idea, sound asleep in his bed.

2:16.5

And then, unfortunately from that point, there was a child awake every hour, on the hour, the whole rest of the night.

2:23.6

So I'm doing really well.

2:25.8

I just want to say as a representative of the Husband Union,

2:29.4

I think you're jumping,

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