The Federalist Society Takes a Stand

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Sarah Isgur and David French recap the Federalist Society's antisemitism panel at last week's National Lawyers Conference before interviewing Judge Jennifer Elrod about the judicial funding crisis. The Agenda:—Court denies review on Obergefell—Contrasts between Tucker Carlson and the Federalist Society—Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on sex designations on passports—The president issued pardons for Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, et al.—Ohio school pronoun policy likely violates First Amendment—A federal judge retires—A shutdown going on since July 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?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isgher. That's David French. We have a fun show for you. We have a
0:25.7	denial. We have a grant from the Supreme Court. We also have a report from the 2025 Federalist
0:33.1	Society National Lawyers Convention that I just finished attending. And by the way, David, I actually do have a vocal cord injury from from talking so loudly
0:42.0	at some of the parties.
0:43.6	Okay, we'll also talk about the passport decision that we finally got from the Supreme Court's
0:47.8	interim docket, as well as a Sixth Circuit on Bonk case.
0:52.3	And then we have a special guest, Chief Judge Jennifer Elrod is joining us to talk
0:56.9	a little bit about the shutdown and its effect on the judicial branch, as well as pardons and
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