The Argument for Originalism

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🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and David address the very interesting announcement that Elon Musk won’t be joining Twitter’s board, including the clues about the reason that are not-so-hidden in Twitter’s announcement. They also discuss the acquittals in the alleged kidnapping plot of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and they talk to Catholic University law professor Joel Alicea about his new law review article, “The Moral Authority of Original Meaning.” Sarah ends the podcast with an interesting question.

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to the Advisory Opinion Podcast. I'm David Crench with Sarah Isger and we've got a great, if eclectic, advisory opinion podcast for you today.
0:28.0	We're going to start off with some really interesting legal issues and then we're going to move much more philosophical with a guest, Joel Alessia.
0:38.0	Did I pronounce it correctly, Sarah?
0:40.0	You did.
0:41.0	From Catholic University, who's starting a new center, who's the honorary chair of it is no none other than Samuel Alito.
0:51.0	So that's going to be a fun conversation. I think you'll enjoy it. But we're also going to talk a little Elon Musk.
0:58.0	I don't know if we've ever talked about him on this podcast.
1:01.0	We did not, to my memory.
1:02.0	No, we're going to talk a little bit about the verdicts in the Gretchen Whitmer trial.
1:07.0	The trial of those who alleged were alleged to have plotted to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer.
1:12.0	And then Sarah has a mysterious question for me at the end.
1:18.0	We'll see if we have time.
1:21.0	All right, so Sarah, I'm going to read you a statement.
1:25.0	And this is going to be what we in the law school world would call an issue spotting exercise.
1:31.0	What read between the lines here about Elon Musk?
1:35.0	Well, wait a minute.
1:36.0	It's not reading between the lines.
1:38.0	Read the key.
1:39.0	I'm going to read the message and you tell me the key lines.
1:42.0	So Elon Musk, for those who don't know, bought about 10% of Twitter, just bought it like you
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