Sotomayor vs. Kavanaugh?

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

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Sarah Isgur and David French revisit Stephen Colbert’s favorite case, take a look at a rare biting word about Justice Brett Kavanaugh from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and dive into a circuit court extravaganza. –Sarah is on a book tour! –Sotomayor vs. Kavanaugh–Citizens United is not controversial–Is there a judicial pipeline?–The seals are ugly–Circuit Court Extravaganza: Bathtub gin, pronouns, and sparkling sports gambling Show Notes:–The case establishing corporate personhood–Home distilling ban struck down after 158 years–Seals of the Circuit Courts (and then some!)–Short Circuit’s newsletter this week Order Sarah’s book 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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0:00.0	Ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And if we got an episode for you,
0:25.6	Last Branch Standing is out on bookshelves. You can go to a real bookstore and go buy it. How crazy is that?
0:32.5	I mean, mostly for me, probably less so for you. But it really is true. Finally, we will revisit Stephen Colbert and
0:40.4	corporate personhood because we actually have never gone into that much. And what better reason
0:46.5	to do so than Stephen Colbert's citation of Santa Clara County from the 19th century. Also,
0:53.3	Justice Sotomayor makes a rare public and personal comment
0:57.8	about Justice Kavanaugh. We'll discuss whether it's inbounds or out of bounds. And the great
1:04.9	seal wars are upon us. All of these circuit courts have way too many seals going on. Seals. You know, like the thing
1:14.2	that sits over them and that they stamp stuff with, I guess. I'm not sure what the seals do, to be
1:18.5	honest. We've got some fun circuit cases, bathtub gin and sparkling sports betting. All of this and
1:26.9	more on advisory opinions.
1:37.9	Okay, David, well, first things first.
1:40.8	I am in New York today.
1:42.5	The book tour is starting. So are you just on the road
1:48.9	for the next, I don't know, two, three weeks? What's the schedule looking like? So Monday,
1:55.7	I am recording with Ross Delfutt on his podcast, Interesting Times. And if you have not watched the Ben Sass
2:02.4	interview that he did, you are missing out. It's like maybe one of the most incredible
2:07.3	podcasts of all time. Oh, it's, it is, everybody is talking about it. And it's one of those few
2:13.6	things where everyone is talking about it and it still is not sufficient to convey,
2:21.0	like just how amazing it is.
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