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Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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In today's pod David and Sarah discuss a federal district court injunction against Texas's heartbeat bill, dive into the deep waters of Mississippi's unbearable aquatic greed, and discuss whether ten robberies is one "occasion" for crime or, well, ten. But that's not all! They also engage in a brief but spirited debate about whether the DOJ's letter about threats against school board members. The pod finishes by talking about manners. In an interesting way. We promise. Show Notes: Mississippi v. Tennessee groundwater case US v. Texas injunction Wooden v. United States AG Garland letter National School Board Association letter to Biden

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David Frinch with Sarah Isger. Boy, we're
0:09.8	going to dive in so fast our substance today because we've got a lot. We have a lot. There
0:16.9	was a Texas case, a Texas District Court decision. In joining SB 8, the Texas Heartbeat Bill
0:24.6	Law, we've got thoughts on it. We have scotus oral argument updates. We have some thoughts
0:34.1	to share about a letter written from the Biden Department of Justice regarding threats
0:40.0	against school board members that has been burning up the internet. Sarah has stories,
0:47.4	stories she has in response to a Senate Judiciary Committee majority report about DOJ, Trump
0:54.1	efforts to pressure the DOJ to overturn or alter the results of the 2016 election and then,
1:01.4	I mean, 2020 election and then lots of you guys weighed in on our discussion of the UCLA
1:09.8	professor from the Monday podcast and some of you disagreed with us. And so we're going to circle
1:16.9	back to some of your critiques. We appreciate them. We'll respond to them. Okay, that's a lot.
1:25.3	That's a lot, Sarah. And speaking of a lot, shall we start with the 113 page opinion from the
1:37.3	United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, filed yesterday
1:44.2	in joining enforcement of the Texas Heartbeat Bill Law. And this case, this was not, this was not
1:56.5	the case filed by the felon in Arkansas. This was the case filed by the Biden administration against
2:05.4	the state of Texas. And 113 pages is a lot to go through, but essentially the core of it is,
2:15.8	is that the judge granted standing to Texas, both standing to sort of vindicate the rights of
2:23.0	the citizens of Texas and also standing in the United States own capacity as perhaps being in a
2:31.3	situation where it would perform abortion, perform abortions or US entities performing abortions.
2:38.2	And it issued an injunction. And I'm just going to read the first, the first bit of it. So this
2:45.8	is the order. Okay, it is ordered that the state of Texas, including its officers, officials,
2:52.6	agents, employees and any other person or entities entities acting on its behalf are preliminary
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