Vampire Rules and The Satanic Temple

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🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Sarah Isgur and David French explain the latest developments in Lisa Cook's case challenging her firing from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors and a challenge to Hawaii's "vampire rules" regarding concealed carry. The Agenda:—Lisa Cook Federal Reserve case—Hawaii's "vampire rules"—Geofence warrants and Fourth Amendment—True Threats Doctrine—Commerce Clause and federal power—Satanic Temple and abortion rights 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 Isgare. That's David French. We want to set the stage for two oral arguments happening this week.
0:27.3	Oh, did we mention that there's an opinion handdown coming on Tuesday? There's a cert grant we'll talk about,
0:33.7	have you turned on the location on feature for Google on your phone?
0:40.6	You may want to think about it because it's going to be really relevant.
0:47.1	As well as the most amazing group of circuit cases, I recently talked to a law student who said that our circuit case coverage is actually the most helpful for law students because the clerks
0:53.0	who are sort of running those judge interviews often are talking about, you know, some circuit case that they think no law student has heard about. But aha, we talked about it on advisory opinion. So here we are law students just preparing you for your clerkship interviews, one podcast at a time.
1:11.7	And I mean, Halloween sex offenders, truth threats against Jews, sleeping during the death penalty case and the Satanic Temple.
1:22.1	There's so many, David.
1:23.3	Sarah, can you pronounce the name of the holiday that happens on October 31st?
1:27.9	Halloween.
1:28.8	Halloween, right?
1:29.9	Halloween.
1:30.8	Halloween.
1:31.9	Are you serious right now?
1:33.0	All Hallows Eve?
1:34.3	But we say Halloween now, David, because this is America.
1:37.6	I object.
1:38.9	I object.
1:40.4	Halloween.
1:41.6	Okay, listeners, help me out here. Help me out here. We're already in trouble. All right,
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