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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Isgur and David French kick things off by revisiting the Slaughter case and responding to an insightful access-to-justice question from a listener. Then they break down the Supreme Court’s latest GVR on school vaccine mandates before diving into two fresh oral arguments: Olivier v. City of Brandon and NRSC v. FEC. Plus, a brief return of grifter Sarah. The Agenda:—A correction to our livestream—The Supreme Court argument that could have been an email—Religious exemptions and vaccine mandates—The case of the street preacher—Understanding campaign finance law—The super PAC dilemma—Can Jasmine Crockett win Texas? Show Notes:—Sarah's piece for the New York Times 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 Isger. That's David French. We are going to get through it today. A little quick revisit on slaughter and an access to justice point from one of our wonderful listeners. A new GVR on vaccine mandates in schools. Two oral arguments to get through, Olivier versus City of Brandon and
0:38.9	NRC versus FEC, as well as some grifter Sarah there at the end. Don't miss out on
0:47.4	advisory opinions. Hi there. I'm Ross Anderson, editor of the morning dispatch, and I'm back
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1:49.7	All right, David, let's just do a very quick revisit of the slaughter argument where we did the live podcast.
1:57.8	You know, the more I've talked to friends about this, a good friend of mine called it the slaughter argument that could have been an email.
2:06.1	I think that's so correct. Right? Like we really didn't need two hours. We probably just could have circulated some quick notes. We've all been on those conference calls that could have been an email. This was the Supreme
2:17.9	Court argument that could have been an email. I did get a great email from a listener who had won
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