The Great and Powerful President

Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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With Donald Trump’s second term in full swing, Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith joins Sarah Isgur and David French to discuss the unitary executive theory. Also: We need to discuss law reviews. The Agenda: —Unitary executive theory —President Trump’s sledgehammer —Congressional oversight no more? —The Take Care clause —Interstate tariff prohibitions —Student-led law reviews: good or bad? —Expert explains cowrie shells Show Notes: —Trump v. United States —South Dakota v. Wayfair —Professor Eric Rakowski's profile —Tuesday's Advisory Opinions episode 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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0:37.2	Oh! Oh! and ready. Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And have we got an
0:53.6	amazing episode of experts for you
0:55.9	today? First off, we're going to talk to Professor Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law Professor,
1:01.4	yes, my former professor, and the author of the new newsletter executive functions. It's awesome.
1:07.3	You should sign up for it. But we're also going to talk pardon powers,
1:18.0	taxing powers, law reviews, and just a little fun update on the Cowrie Shell necklace from the inauguration. But before we get to that, very quickly, I do have a correction from
1:22.5	the last episode. And David, I think this whole sentence is going to really summarize what we try to do here at
1:28.8	advisory opinions. In the last episode, I said that Justice Alito was joined by Justice Gorsuch in his
1:36.9	dissent. In fact, it was Justice Thomas joined by Justice Gorsuch in the slut puppy descent.
1:45.5	I'm glad we corrected that.
1:47.4	Yeah, and if you didn't listen to the last episode
1:49.1	and don't know what a slut puppy descent is,
1:51.3	your life is worse off for it.
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