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The Gobsmacking Guns Case

Advisory Opinions

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4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Things get visceral as David and Sarah discuss Haaland v. Brackeen, the Supreme Court case that may determine who gets to adopt a Native American child. Then, having picked up their dropped jaws, they parse a federal court's ruling that deemed it unconstitutional to prohibit gun ownership based on a history of domestic violence. Plus: Sarah provides some FedSoc gala gossip.

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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 Isker and Sarah

0:26.0

Today's podcast, we've got a really fascinating Supreme Court case to talk about. We're going

0:34.0

to give a FedSoc update, a very quick hit on some Supreme Court cases that we're really

0:41.2

going to pay more attention to when the opinion comes out. And oh my, oh my, a gun case

0:49.2

out of Texas. I don't even want to say any more than that because.

0:54.0

I'm making David put this at the end because it is his dessert. And if we put it at the

0:58.0

beginning, he would only eat dessert at this meal.

1:00.8

It's, it's, oh my, that's all I'm going to say. That's all I'm going to say. But let's

1:05.7

start, let's start with FedSoc. Sarah, you were at the FedSoc dinner, thoughts, observations,

1:12.4

any comments on it. And I've got one, I've got something to say in defensive Amy Coney Barrett

1:17.2

after, after. So this was the national conference, the yearly national conference held just after

1:23.8

the election this year, which is unusual. Normally, it's kind of the week after. And high attendance,

1:29.7

not surprising. At the dinner on Thursday night, which is held at Union Station, there were

1:37.0

four justices, justices, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, all in attendance.

1:44.0

The actual program was a little dot, dot, dot, strange. May I just suggest that having like David Lat,

1:53.4

MC the dinner might make some sense in future years. It was sort of a hodgepodge. It was the 40th

2:00.1

anniversary of the Federalist Society, which is fun, David, because the Federalist Society and I

2:04.6

are the same age in our birthdays are the same time. The Federalist Society is younger than me.

2:10.1

1982, my friend. So they did some like history, some reminiscing, and then justice, Alito stood up

2:22.4

and did sort of an impromptu story about a time he remembered running into Charles Fried, the Harvard

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