Will SCOTUS Show Its True Colors?

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🗓️ 10 February 2026

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Hot takes from James Comey, the 5th Circuit weighs in on habeas corpus petitions, and does being a lawyer suck? Sarah Isgur and David French weigh in. Note: SCOTUSblog is hiring. Find more details and apply at this link, or send a cover letter and resume to scotusblog@thedispatch.com. The Agenda:–Introducing the Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack–Where are all the U.S. attorneys?–Supreme Court allows California to use congressional map benefitting Democrats–Trump administration games immigration issue via Fifth Circuit–James Comey and Jack Goldsmith defend the courts Show Notes–February 1, 2026—On the Rule of Law - James Comey–Fifth Circuit Sides With Trump on Immigrant Detention Law 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?
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0:04.0	Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. The Supreme Court comes down in that California redistricting that was a response to Texas's redistricting. Is one a racial gerrymander and the other not? Will the Supreme Court show its true colors? Well, hold on. As well, and relatedly, we have for the first time,
0:41.0	the SCOTUS blog Interim Docket Stat Pack and Hot Takes from James Comey and Jack Goldsmith.
0:49.7	Fifth Circuit weighs in on all of these habeas petitions from folks who are being indefinitely detained
0:56.4	after entering the country illegally, as well as a lawyer who says her job sucks. Is it refreshing
1:03.3	candor or is it unprofessional? All this and more on advisory opinions.
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1:40.8	Okay, David, we'll start with the Supreme Court.
1:43.6	Right after we finished our podcast last week. The Supreme Court issued its ruling in that California redistricting case. Now, we covered what amounts to the district court ruling. It's still a three-judge panel, and we had Judge Bumete dissenting from that three-judge panel, but it is the first court that hears a redistricting case.
2:02.8	Judge Bumetea making the argument that this was a paradigmatic racial gerrymander,
2:08.0	the comments made by the mapmaker and the legislators by a majority group to protect majority power,
2:15.1	like what more could you want from a racial gerrymander? But as we discussed,
2:19.6	this was not happening in a vacuum. It was, of course, happening on the heels of Texas. And the
2:25.1	Texas decision where the majority of that three-judge panel had found that it was a racial gerrymander,
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