Supremacy Clause Immunity, Explained

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🗓️ 10 January 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Sarah Isgur and David French return for a bonus episode on the Minneapolis ICE shooting and explain the concept of Supremacy Clause immunity. The Agenda:—Corrections from Thursday's episode—How to analyze police shootings—Federalism and the Supremacy Clause—Federal officer removal—Broader impacts of police violence—Bowe v. United States—Church autonomy and employment law 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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1:13.6	Welcome to advisory opinions. It is Friday, January 9th, and while this is not an emergency podcast, it's an extra podcast. That's David French. I'm Sarah Isger, and we did not get the tariffs case this morning. But we did get a case that I am excited about talking about,
1:47.1	but really what we're here to do is talk about the legal situation
1:52.3	around the ice shooting in Minneapolis.
1:56.0	Then we will talk about the Bo case that came out today
1:58.3	that no one is excited about but me and this one guy on
2:01.6	Twitter. And then we've got another Judge Bumetee church autonomy case. I mean, big, big pod date, David.
2:10.4	So we'll be right back. Okay, David, first of all, I just want to completely and totally disavow something that I said on the last podcast.
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