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Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Sarah Isgur and David French react to Judge Jerry Smith's unconventional dissent in the legal challenge against the Texas GOP redistricting effort. Also: James Comey may catch a break after U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan's presentation before the grand jury exposed amateurish errors. The Agenda:—Sudafed as an enemy—Judge Jerry Smith's dissent—Redistricting challenges in Texas—Comey's case and grand jury proceedings 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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0:00.0	Ready?
0:01.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isker. That's David French. And do we have a podcast for you? We are starting with Texas redistricting. Are we going to learn a little bit about redistricting? Sure, a little. Are we going to learn a lot about feelings? Yes, we will learn a lot about feelings. Then, speaking of feelings,
0:41.9	we're going to talk about the indictment against James Comey and whether it turns out it's
0:49.0	totally facially invalid. Oops. So yeah, let's just, um, let's see where we go on this advisory opinions.
0:58.8	I want to talk to my fellow attorneys for a moment.
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