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Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Sarah Isgur and David French are joined by Erin Hawley, senior counsel to the appellate team at the Alliance Defending Freedom, to discuss the latest, er, kerfuffle that sent federal employees scrambling. Who is in control of executive agencies? The Agenda: —Tariffs, funding freeze, and firings —Congress has the power to collect —Trump’s workaround —Barrett vs. Gorsuchian doctrines —Elon Musk’s power grab —Where does the fire-at-will power end for the president? —The Founders say we’re all untrustworthy Show Notes: —Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s 2013 D.C. Circuit decision —Humphrey’s Excecutor 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 Sarah’s Collision newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.9	Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Asger. That's David French. And David, I think this is going to be a good pot because what we're going to do is break down some of what's been going on in executive
1:00.7	branch land. I want to talk about tariffs, funding freezing, including what's going on at USAID,
1:08.4	and firings. And we'll have a special guest for one of those.
1:12.9	And think of this sort of as a Rumsfeldian
1:15.0	conversation. We don't have all the answers
1:16.8	here. We don't have all the facts at this point
1:18.9	in a lot of cases. But we
1:20.8	have the known unknowns and
1:22.7	the unknown unknowns.
1:24.6	And the known knowns.
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1:30.0	Rumsfeld's book also, by the way. It's on my shelf, just behind me there. It's a good book, even,
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