The Right-Wing Shake-Up

Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the resignation of Josh Blackman, former senior editor of the Heritage Guide to the Constitution, and the the entire Meese Center leaving with John Malcolm to join former Vice President Mike Pence's organization at Advancing American Freedom. The Agenda:—Heritage blows up—Thunder Basin factors and the latest interim docket order—Shadow Docket Sunlight Act—Need greater clarity on Church Autonomy doctrine—Are parodies of land acknowledgements free speech?—Listener questions and fruit of the poisonous tree doctrines Show Notes:—Smith v. Allwright—SCOTUSblog's Interim Docket Blog The Remnant 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 Jonah’s G-File newsletters—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 Isgar. That's David French. We're going to check in on the
0:24.5	Meltdown at the Heritage Foundation as the legal center flees the scene this weekend, as well as an
0:30.9	interim docket order from the Supreme Court about immigration judges and a law to mandate the Supreme Court to write opinions on their
0:40.4	interim docket orders. How would that even work? As well as the promised church autonomy
0:46.3	doctrine out of the D.C. Circuit and making fun of land acknowledgments out of the Ninth Circuit.
0:53.0	It's a First Amendment circuit extravaganza here at Advisory Opinions. Finally, we've got some fun listener questions.
0:59.8	One from a high school class on forensics that I'm very excited about. And another on
1:06.5	what happens when no one wants to defend that case at the Supreme Court? All that and more on
1:12.6	advisory opinions.
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2:00.8	starting in the 1720s.
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