Pressing the SCOTUS Panic Button

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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David returns after a brief food poisoning hiatus to discuss two oral arguments heard before the Supreme Court: Trump’s immunity case and Idaho’s case on abortion bans. But first, a request from The Dispatch’s resident Wilson-hater. The Agenda: —Are solo podcasters sociopaths? —Proposals for changes on the Israeli Supreme Court —Absolute immunity for presidents —The role of the executive vesting clause —Reviewing Idaho’s abortion ban —Time, place, and manner restrictions on college campuses —Answering questions and issuing corrections Show Notes: —Previous AO episode —South Dakota v. Dole —NFIB v. Sebelius —Dr. Martin Luther King on “civil disobedience” —Columbia University banned student protester over saying “Zionists don’t deserve to live” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Must remember do not forget
0:08.0	remind me to bring photo ID
0:11.0	reminder set babe can you make sure I don't forget Photo ID. Reminder, set.
0:13.0	Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote?
0:17.0	All right, love.
0:20.0	However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May.
0:24.7	Find out more at Electoralcommission.org.
0:26.8	UK slash voter ID.
0:31.3	Ready? I was born ready. Welcome to Advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger and David French is back from the brink of food poisoning
0:55.0	I just being laid out David welcome we're so happy to ask you.
1:00.0	Oh Sarah so I do you know So I do, you know, when I do speaking engagements, I often speak during a meal, like lunch, and then often have a meal with people who organize, which is always a really enjoyable experience really love that but when you do that you end up talking a lot so you don't always end up eating all your food necessarily so I was a little hungry and went down into the hotel restaurant right before it closed and they had a little clam chowder and I was in Boston at the time.
1:30.0	No, you did clam chowder at like 9 o'clock at night or 930, whatever. And I think it was 15 minutes after that. There were repercussions. There were repercussions, Sarah. And by the morning when I called
1:45.0	it echoed through the night and the morning yes when I woke well didn't wake up in the morning when the
1:49.0	alarm went off in the morning I was checked my like stats you know when you have a smart watch it has those
1:54.4	stats it said no sleep detected so yeah bad times okay we've got a fun episode today now that you're back because we're going to have to get your take on the immunity oral argument.
2:06.7	And I saved the Idaho abortion oral argument to discuss with you because it's a doozy. Also we are going to start from the very
2:18.3	beginning on time, place, and manner restrictions on college campuses, public and private, and do some
2:25.8	first principles stuff on that. I have two corrections I'm going to issue at the end. We got a question
2:31.1	from a listener about what happens after oral argument
2:33.6	sort of what's going to happen between now and opinion hand downs in some of these
2:37.4	cases and David just for future place marker we got two interesting requests from our friend Jonah Goldberg. He would
2:46.8	like an episode dedicated to beating up on Oliver Wendell Holmes. And to me, it feels so appropriate because he's really dedicated his
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