SPECIAL EDITION - Isaac interviews Sarah Isgur, co-host at Advisory Opinions and author of the new book Last Branch Standing.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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On todays Special Edition, Isaac interviews Sarah Isgur, co-host of the podcast Advisory Opinions and author of her new book Last Branch Standing, a deep dive into the inner workings of the Supreme Court.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Sarah Isker, co-host at Advisory Opinions and author of the new book, The Last Branch Standing. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome to the show. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:14.9 | Thanks for having me back. |
| 0:16.5 | So there's so much going on in the legal. I mean, I literally have no idea how sometimes I feel |
| 0:22.3 | bad for myself, like the news never stops, but it feels like the legal, just like the legal |
| 0:28.4 | fire hose of news, court challenges, Supreme Court, ice stuff, whatever. It's so crazy. |
| 0:35.4 | I don't know how you're keeping up. How are you doing? Are you |
| 0:38.8 | doing okay? I'm going to be honest. I'm feeling a little overwhelmed. So, you know, while we're |
| 0:47.0 | recording this, the Supreme Court just denied application from folks who wanted to stop California's redistricting from going forward. |
| 0:57.8 | If you remember, back in November, we had an application from the left that wanted to stop |
| 1:01.7 | Texas's redistricting. |
| 1:03.3 | And the Supreme Court basically said in both states, you get to use your redistricted maps. |
| 1:08.1 | And so, like, yeah, even when I think it's like a day they they're not having oral arguments, there weren't opinion hand-down scheduled. Nope. The Supreme, we are still at the whim of the nine. This is why I love you. You start with breaking news. You make my job easy. I don't even need a transition. So I want to start there. This Supreme Court ruling came down. So, I mean, my layman guy trying to |
| 1:29.7 | understand court challenge world stuff is California redistricting that now ago, right? I mean, |
| 1:37.0 | this was the last thing that could have blocked it. And maybe just the latest signal that Supreme |
| 1:42.6 | Court's kind of hands up about gerrymandering, |
| 1:44.6 | that's not our thing. We're not touching that or getting involved now that we've had a couple |
| 1:49.1 | rulings last year. I mean, give me the lay of the land here. What does this mean? Any larger |
| 1:54.3 | implications? I know it's an unsigned opinion and it doesn't seem like there is, you know, |
| 1:58.9 | much explication of the ruling. |
| 2:01.4 | What are you seeing? Where are we now? |
| 2:03.6 | There's a few fun things to note about this. |
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