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Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

David Lat takes over the guest chair and joins Sarah to discuss recent SCOTUS decisions. The Agenda: —SCOTUS bumps bump stock case to Congress —Lily Ledbetter and the last time Congress did their job —Mifepristone decision —Trump too small? Maybe, but you can’t trademark it —Justice Gorsuch and Justice Jackson’s playful relationship —NLRB and defending the administrative state —Justice Alito is secretly recorded —Young Thug’s messy court trial —Predicting SCOTUS decisions —Sentencing and appeals in the Hunter Biden saga Show Notes: —Peggy Noonan’s response to Alito-gate —David Lat and "underneath their robes" —The Mo News Podcast 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 Sarah’s Collision newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready. Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger with special guest David.
0:23.2	Wait for it, Latt.
0:25.4	That's right, David French is out today.
0:27.1	So we've got David Latt from original jurisdiction
0:29.4	joining us.
0:30.1	Welcome David.
0:31.3	Thanks, it's great to be here. And boy, we have a lot of cases to get through today.
0:36.2	We will try to be extra efficient as we run through as many as we can,
0:41.3	but this might run long.
0:43.7	So, David, you're ready to buckle in?
0:46.2	Yep.
0:46.7	All right, let's start with Cargill.
0:49.8	This is the bump stock case in 2017 after the Las Vegas shooting that killed over 50 people
0:56.3	injured 600.
0:58.3	Congress was debating various bills to ban bump stocks and the ATF under the Trump administration just went ahead and
1:07.8	did it for them by reimagining the Machine Gun Act which banned machine guns.
1:14.0	So this was a six-three decision along ideological lines.
1:19.0	Interestingly, fun fact,
1:21.0	every Republican appointee was striking down a Trump policy, and every Democratic
1:26.9	appointee was trying to uphold the ATF actions. This was a Thomas opinion and we'll talk about this a bit but Thomas
1:38.6	seems like he might even be done for the term. He's put out so many opinions in the
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