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Advisory Opinions

Supreme Court Countdown Continues

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

With a lot of big Supreme Court decisions on the horizon, David and Sarah discuss an unexpected concurrence from Justice Thomas in Borden v. United States, a case about how broadly the government can define “use of force.” Our hosts also review a decision from the 20th Judicial Circuit of Virginia about a school that suspended a professor for not using students’ preferred pronouns and an announcement that the Texas Bar Association will investigate Ken Paxton for his lawsuit to overturn the 2020 election. Finally, they chat about a controversy at Yale Law School involving the infamous “tiger mom” law professor Amy Chua. Show Notes: -Borden v. United States -20th Circuit of Virginia Ruling on preferred pronouns case -Texas Bar Association investigating Ken Paxton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David Frinch with Sarah Isger and Sarah.

0:09.2

Can you see what I'm doing?

0:12.9

You are holding up some dispatch swag.

0:16.7

I'm drinking a cup of coffee and a brand new dispatch Yeti Tumbler. I don't know yet if

0:23.2

this fine piece of swag is available online yet. It's not.

0:28.7

It is not. It's just a taste of what awaits you and I'm drinking though this cup of coffee

0:34.8

and lamentation. Sarah, in lamentation that once again, the Supreme Court has announced

0:41.2

opinions and I'm at an opinion day and giving us only one opinion and not one of the big

0:48.8

eats. But, well, wait, you held your finger up to stop me.

0:55.0

So I was taking the baby woke up, of course, at five. So I was taking a little pre-AO

1:00.2

nap and my husband came to wake me up just after 10 a.m. and I rolled over and I said,

1:07.2

what did we get? And he said, you got armed career criminal and I threw a pillow at his

1:14.4

face. And he said, but Sarah, the Thomas concurrence.

1:23.3

And I shot out of bed and we shall discuss it.

1:28.9

So okay, the over under on the number of marriages in the United States of America in which,

1:37.1

but the Thomas concurrence could lead to unrestrained glee and jubilation.

1:42.6

Ten? It might just be ours. It might just be yours. Okay. So you're taking the under

1:49.0

on 10 marriages in the United States. Okay. Okay. Well, hopefully we're going to take

1:55.3

the over on 10 on number of listeners interested in the Thomas concurrence because that's what

2:00.2

we're going to start with. Yeah. But we got a lot of other stuff. So there is a case out

2:07.6

of Virginia involving a teacher who went to the school board and while the school board

2:12.5

was considering a pronoun policy and vowed that they would not use preferred pronouns

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