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Advisory Opinions

Political Distortions

Advisory Opinions

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4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Isgur and David French discuss striking jurors on race, Constitution deep cuts on the domestic violence clause and bill of attainder clause, and abortion distortion. The Agenda:—Transcript changes and the funniest Justice—Batson claims and cert grants—Trump v. Illinois and the domestic violence clause—Bill of attainder clause and abortion distortion—Ross Douthat's interesting interview over transgender rights—Aspiring lawyers: learn how to write! Show Notes:—Ninth Circuit Judge Bybee's statement supporting en banc review Advisory Opinions is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of our articles, members-only newsletters, and bonus podcast episodes—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ready?

0:02.0

I was born ready.

0:04.0

Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And I think we've got a pretty

0:25.2

full pod, David. We're going to do a little cert grant on voir dire, or as we say in Texas,

0:33.0

Bordar, and domestic violence clause, Bill of a T Clause, we've got some deep cuts to go through

0:40.2

in the Constitution today, pretty pumped about that, as well as distortion effects. There's

0:46.5

abortion distortion, there's drug distortion. Is there a Trump distortion effect? And last,

0:51.7

that conversation between Ross Douthit and Chase Strangio,

0:56.0

we've got it all here at Advisory Opinions.

1:00.0

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1:31.3

Hey, everyone, Steve Hayes with some big news from the dispatch.

1:34.6

I want to tell you about dispatch hoontoes.

1:38.3

Dispatch what?

1:39.7

Hoonto, though some people pronounce it, Junto, is the name Ben Franklin gave to the small gatherings he organized in Philadelphia taverns, starting in the 1720s.

1:49.0

Franklin's Huntoes, Spanish for assembly or council, consisted of 12 members, each of whom was required to pledge that he, quote, loved truth for the truth's sake, unquote, and that he was dedicated to personal growth

2:02.3

for himself and improving his community. These discussions at those junto meetings would

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