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Advisory Opinions

The Trial of Derek Chauvin

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, David and Sarah discuss the ins and outs of Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, including why Chauvin didn’t take the stand and whether he’s likely to be convicted. Plus, our hosts chat about House Democrats’ latest court-packing bill—what Sarah calls “a press release in the form of legislation”—former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter’s fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, and an en banc 6th Circuit case involving abortion. Show Notes: -“Chauvin Defense Expert Destroyed on the Stand” by Andrew McCarthy in National Review -Pre-Term Cleveland v. McCloud Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger. We're

0:08.8

going to cover a bunch of things today, including the controversy that has been burning up

0:16.1

the advisory opinions inbox, the advisory opinions, Twitter replies, and we're going to have

0:21.3

a special guest. I don't know, Sarah, should we disclose a special guest now?

0:27.3

Let's do it. Producer Caleb. Producer Caleb is going to come on the show at the end of the show,

0:35.5

and he is going to describe his controversial decision to change the advisory opinions

0:42.2

introductory music. He's going to explain himself, Sarah. Are you going to grill him?

0:49.3

Oh, yeah, obviously. Okay, okay, because he, we can't let him off the hook easily. I mean, the people

0:55.6

have to have a voice through us to have producer Caleb explain himself about our introductory music.

1:01.6

But music, and it's it all we're going to cover today. We're going to talk about the

1:06.4

Democrats bill introduced that will be introduced today to expand the Supreme Court. We're going to

1:13.2

talk about the trial of Derek Chauvin, what has gone right and wrong for the prosecution so far.

1:20.5

We're going to talk about the most recent police shooting involving a taser or involving allegedly

1:26.7

a confusion between a handgun and a taser. We're also going to talk about an on-bought six-circuit case

1:34.3

that upheld a restriction on abortion, a very specific restriction on abortion.

1:42.6

And then, of course, we're concluding with the interview. Okay, so let's start. This is something

1:48.8

that's burning up the online world right now. I'm just going to read the first couple of paragraphs

1:53.6

of an NBC story. Congressional Democrats will introduce legislation Thursday to expand the

2:00.8

Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices, a totally random number, no doubt, Sarah, one that just

2:07.9

would happen to change the balance of the court from six three Republican appointees to seven,

2:13.1

six Democratic appointees. But I'm sure that's entirely accidental. Joining progressive activists

2:19.2

pushing to transform the court, the move intensifies a high stakes ideological fight over the future of

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