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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

iHeartPodcasts

Daily News, News, Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Isgur joins Jack & Joe to talk about her new book, Last Branch Standing--an insider's look at The Supreme Court. 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

We've been wanting to get Sarah Isgar on for a long time.

0:07.7

First became aware of the dispatch and the podcast stuff there.

0:11.1

And man, anytime any big legal story breaks, I go to her Twitter feed or wait for the podcast

0:16.8

she does with David French Advisory Opinions to get it laid out and couldn't be happier to have her today.

0:21.6

Yep. We're both big fans of Sarah Isgar, editor of Scotis blog, host of the legal podcast advisory opinions, legal analyst for ABC News, and author of a fabulous new book, Last Branch, standing, a potentially surprising, occasionally witty journey inside today's Supreme Court. A book so timely and important, I believe it should be a compulsory read for every American, not sure how that scores with the First Amendment. Sarah, welcome. How are you? I'm great. Thank you guys for having me. You bet you. Before we let you lay out the book, and here's the deal I'm going to make with you, even though we have no leverage. You're like the Hormuz Strait. We have no leverage over you.

0:55.5

But we're going to let you, and I'll go out and buy a hardbound copy of your book today,

1:00.0

even though I'm getting a promotional copy.

1:01.6

If I can get you to do one of your Screeds, and there's so many I would like,

1:05.2

the Screed might be prejudicial.

1:06.6

Maybe I'll go with presentation or something like that. But, and I could have you do why the whole crying fire in a crowded movie house is misrepresented.

1:17.5

I mean, there's so many of them I have you to do that I love.

1:20.2

Her greatest hits.

1:21.1

Why there are no parties anymore and it's a waste of time.

1:23.1

I want to have you lay out the pointlessness of issue polling after the book, because I want

1:30.9

you to do that for our audience.

1:32.0

I really do.

1:33.1

Excellent.

1:33.6

No problem.

1:34.2

I'm done.

1:34.9

I mean, you don't have to go to me into doing a rant.

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