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Advisory Opinions

Mootness and Munsingwear

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court “munsingweared” several cases in its Monday orders, including two Trump emoluments cases. After a deep dive into the legal history of munsingwear precedent—a modern mootness doctrine—David and Sarah discuss a Texas deportation case filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, pretrial release conditions for those who were arrested during the January 6 Capitol siege, and a Supreme Court original jurisdiction case. A special guest also joins the show to chat about Wendy’s chicken sandwiches! Show Notes: -United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. and Trump v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. -“The Great Chicken Sandwich (Meal) Wars, Settled” by Sarah Isgur in The Dispatch. -Take our podcast survey 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.

0:24.0

We've got a unique pod today, a unique pod.

0:29.0

We're going to talk about monthsing wear, monthsing wear, which some people might know of

0:34.6

as underwear, but it has another meaning.

0:38.1

So we're going to talk about monthsing wear.

0:40.1

We're going to talk about a Texas deportation case filed by the attorney general of Texas

0:45.3

Ken Paxton.

0:47.0

It's the first of the what will undoubtedly be a tsunami of lawsuits filed against Biden

0:53.2

administration executive actions.

0:56.4

This one's filed in Texas.

0:58.2

It's the first one.

1:00.0

It's got an interesting twist to it.

1:03.3

We're going to talk a little bit about pretrial release conditions on those people who stormed

1:08.5

the Capitol.

1:10.0

And we're also going to talk about a Supreme Court original jurisdiction case.

1:15.9

And if that isn't enough and already you're on the edge of your seats, if that isn't

1:22.3

enough, we're going to talk to the person who was Sarah what?

1:26.0

The number, former number two marketer and no, not marketer number two, something in

1:33.0

all of Wendy's.

1:34.2

Yeah, I'm very excited about this.

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