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Advisory Opinions

The Brooding Omnipresence of the Law

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Politics, Government

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The AO marathon continues as David and Sarah catch up on Supreme Court hearings. In this feature-length episode, they explore the line between lobbying and bribery, raise eyebrows at the historicity of the "independent legislature" argument, and debate the extent to which the 303 Creative case is about speech. Also: the Jan. 6 prosecutors may have caught their white whale.

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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 French with Sarah Isger. And wow, do

0:25.4

we have lots of stuff to cover today? And Sarah, we can't even really get through all the

0:31.1

stuff we should be covering today dictated by the news cycle. This is a busy time. We've

0:38.3

got a seditious conspiracy conviction related to January 6th that we're going to talk about.

0:43.3

We've got a huge, huge free speech case that we're going to be talking about, 303 creative.

0:49.7

We've talked about it more, but we're going to be prepping you for the oral argument

0:52.9

on Monday. We've got independent state legislature, more v-harper to talk about some bribery

1:01.1

cases. And that doesn't even get us to a giant immigration case that was argued yesterday

1:06.9

that we'll be talking about soon. There's so much. Before we dive into what is a very

1:15.7

good podcast today, I just want to offer a quick exhortation as we enter the Christmas season.

1:23.0

Now would be a great time to buy a dispatch subscription. Buy one for yourself, gift

1:31.1

it to yourself, Merry Christmas to you, buy it for somebody else. We have an awful lot

1:36.4

of listeners on this podcast. We're blessed to have a lot of listeners on this podcast.

1:40.8

And you know what? I know not all of you subscribe to the dispatch. Now, I'm not going to say

1:46.2

that if we run into each other in casual conversations and I find out you're an AO

1:51.0

listener, but you're not a dispatch subscriber that we're not friends anymore. No, we love

1:56.4

all of our AO listeners whether or not you're a dispatch subscriber. But what I am going

2:01.4

to say is you're just not getting the whole cake. You're getting only some of the icing

2:07.7

here if you're not subscribing to the dispatch. So if you want to enjoy and feast upon

2:13.8

the whole cake and not just a corner piece with some icing, please go ahead and subscribe

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