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Advisory Opinions

Vindictive Prosecutions

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Isgur and David French dive deeper into Chiles v. Salazar, the case argued before the Supreme Court last week about banning conversion therapy for minors, before analyzing the James Comey and Tish James indictments. The Agenda:—Chiles v. Salazar—Tish James and mortgage fraud: Do the facts hold up?—Update on the James Comey indictment—Suing USPS over not delivering mail—Denying review in a death penalty case—Sarah says Seila correctly 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

Advisory Opinions is presented by Pacific Legal Foundation, suing the government since 1973.

0:06.2

Ready?

0:08.1

I was born ready.

0:10.3

Welcome. Welcome to advisory opinions.

0:26.3

I'm Sarah Isger.

0:27.1

That's David French.

0:28.2

First off, we got to talk a little bit more about Childs.

0:31.9

This was the conversion therapy case that was argued at the court last week.

0:37.4

You guys sent in some brilliant questions,

0:39.8

and I felt like, I guess, we didn't do a good enough job explaining some of this, so we're

0:44.2

going to try again to answer some of your very, very smart, thoughtful questions that we got

0:48.3

from listeners across the spectrum. Also, the Tish James indictment. Is it vindictive prosecution or is it exactly what she did to Donald Trump?

0:58.5

And we've got three denials from the Supreme Court and some opinions from the justices on those case denials that we'll need to talk about.

1:08.5

Finally, how the heck have I been mispronouncing this precedent

1:12.4

for this whole podcast, like six years worth of podcasting, and I'm still mispronouncing it

1:17.7

despite all sorts of efforts. Once again, Sarah can't pronounce the name of that CFPB Humphreys

1:24.8

executor, unitary executive case. I will try once more on advisory opinions.

1:32.2

I want to talk to my fellow attorneys for a moment. Do you really want to spend time on the

1:36.4

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1:42.0

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