Slaughter at SCOTUS: Reaganite Ends by Roosevelt Means

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

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Following the Supreme Court arguments in Slaughter v. United States, Sarah Isgur and David French join legal scholar Adam White to break down a session that became a referendum on whether Congress can insulate modern independent agencies from presidential control. SCOTUSblog’s Amy Howe also joins from the steps of the Supreme Court to relay her observations from inside the courtroom.Watch the livestream here. 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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0:33.6	I was born ready. Hello. For those of you who are joining our SkOTUS blog live chat for the Slaughter argument,
0:58.3	welcome to the live episode of advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French,
1:05.5	and we've got special guest Adam White. Now, this is really part three of a three-part series heading up to
1:13.5	Slaughter. We did sort of that 30,000 foot-level conversation with Adam about the theories
1:19.2	behind the administrative state. And then David and I did our deep dive into the precedent
1:26.2	heading into Slaughter, Myers, Humphrey's executor,
1:31.9	Sela Law. See, look, I'm going to pronounce it correctly one time on this podcast. But today,
1:37.8	we have just listened to the argument in Slaughter. And we'll break that down for you,
1:43.5	as well as, I mean, we have some other big news from the Supreme Court. So if we have time, we'll break that down for you as well as i mean we have some other big news from
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