Political Retribution? | Interview: Saikrishna Prakash

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

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Sarah Isgur and David French analyze the legalities of the FBI’s raid on former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s home. Then, an interview with Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash on his forthcoming book, The Presidential Pardon: The Short Clause with a Long, Troubled History. The Agenda:—What could have triggered an FBI raid on John Bolton?—Is Chris Christie next on the investigation list?—Mortgage fraud investigations—More and more norm violations—The double-edged sword of pardons 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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0:00.0	Ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. We're going to talk about
0:23.8	the weaponization of the Department of Justice. What is and what isn't weaponization in this week's
0:31.1	news? And I got David an early Christmas present that you'll hear at the back end of the show.
0:39.4	It's relevant.
0:40.8	It's a new book.
0:41.8	You can pre-order it from a professor at the University of Virginia.
0:45.4	I'm not even going to ruin this.
0:46.5	And on our next episode, we're going to talk about flag burning and the latest interim docket order from the Supreme Court, y'all, it was 414.
0:56.8	But that'll be on the next episode.
1:01.0	All right, David, we have to be efficient today.
1:03.8	There is a lot to get through.
1:05.3	I want to start with the execution of two search warrants on John Bolton, former national
1:10.5	security advisor to Donald Trump.
1:12.6	And by the way, former Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legislative Affairs in the
1:18.4	Department of Justice, fun fact, he was there during the Reagan administration.
1:24.9	This was like, you know.
1:26.1	Really? I had forgotten that. Bork era.
1:29.3	Yeah, he's been here a long time, David, coming in and out. So one search warrant was executed on his
1:35.2	home and one was executed on his office. Now, just to start, that means that two different
1:42.1	federal judges signed off on these warrants agreeing with the government
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