There Is No Historic Defeat for Civil Rights

Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Isgur, on a whirlwind booktour, takes a break to deliver the legal goods with David French. The two discuss a Washington Post piece on civil rights data during the Trump era, Chiles v. Salazar, and free speech and AI liability in child porn. The Agenda:–Sarah on The View–David’s beef with WaPo piece on civil rights data –AI liability–Book restrictions in Iowa–Iowa law prevents schools from providing instruction relating to gender identity or sexual orientation– Religious challenge to vaccine mandates–Contract cases and undue influence Show Notes:–Federal appeals court upholds West Virginia school vaccine law–Chiles v. Salazar (conversion therapy) Order Sarah’s book here, 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. And we are here with an exciting
0:25.1	episode where we will go behind the scenes of The View, where I talked about the Supreme Court
0:31.1	in front of a live TV audience. You don't get to say that every day, as well as walk through
0:37.2	a new Washington Post story where the headline enraged us.
0:42.8	And then we will talk about questions you guys had about child's and the conversion therapy case as it applies to abortion and restrictions on what doctors can say or must say in the context of
0:56.7	abortion providers, as well as AI. I mean, how wrong can David be? Like, you guys are so up in arms
1:04.0	about this. So let's see if you can answer some of your analogies. Is AI more like Excel,
1:10.5	more like Adobe Photoshop?
1:13.0	You sent them all, and I really appreciate it.
1:15.0	And we will continue circuit extravaganza.
1:18.9	Moving now to the Eighth Circuit and the Fourth Circuit.
1:23.7	Are you required to have a religious exemption for your vaccine mandate for students in public school?
1:30.7	Let's find out on advisory opinions.
1:33.7	British gas have this thing. We call it home care. We'll fix all sorts and its unlimited repairs.
1:40.3	Expert engineers will solve the upset of boilers not boiling or taps that won't wet.
1:46.0	Electrics playing tricks or a pipe that's broke.
1:49.5	We're there for everyone.
1:51.0	Even blue furry folk.
1:53.0	Your home won't feel booby-trapped.
1:55.0	It'll feel just like new.
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