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Advisory Opinions
Advisory Opinions is a legal podcast by The Dispatch. Hosts David French and Sarah Isgur meet twice a week to talk about the law, the courts, their collision with politics, and why it all matters.
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Vampire Rules and The Satanic Temple
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...
Must and May
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss lengthy, consolidated Supreme Court arguments from Idaho and West Virginia over state laws banning transgender at...
The Conservative Warren Court of Today
Harvard law professor Richard Re discusses the evolution of the Supreme Court from the Warren court to the present day, highlighting the historical co...
Supremacy Clause Immunity, Explained
Sarah Isgur and David French return for a bonus episode on the Minneapolis ICE shooting and explain the concept of Supremacy Clause immunity.
Prosecuting Foreign Leaders
David French and Sarah Isgur discuss the legal arguments underpinning the arrest of Nicolás Maduro and dive into a legal challenge to mandatory divers...
The Legality of U.S. Operations in Venezuela
David French is joined by David Lat to explore the legality of the Trump administration's arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and President...
Merry Christmas to the State Courts
Sarah Isgur sits down for a live recording at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Carlos G. Muñiz, Texas Supreme Cou...
The Right-Wing Shake-Up
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the resignation of Josh Blackman, former senior editor of the Heritage Guide to the Constitution, and the the ent...
Political Distortions
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss striking jurors on race, Constitution deep cuts on the domestic violence clause and bill of attainder clause, and...
Burkeanism and the Administrative State
As an early Christmas present for David French, Sarah Isgur invites professors Will Baude and Julian Davis Mortenson on the podcast to answer all ques...
The Illusion of Campaign Finance Reform
Sarah Isgur and David French kick things off by revisiting the Slaughter case and responding to an insightful access-to-justice question from a listen...
Slaughter at SCOTUS: Reaganite Ends by Roosevelt Means
Following the Supreme Court arguments in Slaughter v. United States, Sarah Isgur and David French join legal scholar Adam White to break down a sessio...
All About Slaughter
Sarah Isgur and David French answer the masses’ demands in this pre-argument, foundational episode, diving into new levels of legal nerdery as they pr...
‘Kill Everybody’
Sarah Isgur and David French break down Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s military orders on the suspected drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean.
The Future of the Administrative State | Interview: Adam White
Sarah Isgur invites Adam White, co-director of the Antonin Scalia Law School’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, to ide...
Case Against Comey Dismissed
Sarah Isgur and David French provide an update on the Texas redistricting case and criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New Yo...
The Dissent Heard Around the World
Sarah Isgur and David French react to Judge Jerry Smith's unconventional dissent in the legal challenge against the Texas GOP redistricting effort.
Did Congress Stretch the Commerce Clause Too Far? | Interview: Jonathan Karl
What does a federal firearm prohibition and a hate crime have to do with the Commerce Clause? Sarah Isgur and David French look at the constitutionali...
Everyone Needs to Stay in Their Lane
Sarah Isgur and David French do a deep dive into the nondelegation clause and the role of Congress in delegating authority.
The Agenda:—C...
The Federalist Society Takes a Stand
Sarah Isgur and David French recap the Federalist Society's antisemitism panel at last week's National Lawyers Conference before interviewing Judge Je...
Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Trump’s Tariff Case
Following the Supreme Court oral arguments in President Donald Trump’s tariff case, Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump, Sarah Isgur is joined by David F...
Trump’s Tariff Showdown
Sarah Isgur and David French preview the biggest Supreme Court case of the term, Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, which challenges President Donald...
All About Substantive Due Process
Sarah Isgur and David French walk listeners through the entire history of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, some of the biggest cases ... all promp...
Firing Squad vs. Suffocation
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the Eighth Amendment in light of a prisoner’s request to die by firing squad.
But first, join us for...
Bad Man Smokes Weed Doctrine
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss a case before the Supreme Court that will consider whether pot smokers can legally own guns.
The Age...
Euphemisms, Political Speech, and the First Amendment
Sarah Isgur and David French kick off Free Speech Week at the University of Texas School of Law to talk about the confusion around Callais oral argume...
Vindictive Prosecutions
Sarah Isgur and David French dive deeper into Chiles v. Salazar, the case argued before the Supreme Court last week about banning conversion therapy f...
The Future of Free Speech
Live from Vanderbilt University, Sarah Isgur and David French speak at the Global Free Speech Summit about the threats to the First Amendment across t...
Conversion Therapy and Free Speech
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SCOTUS Long Conference and 'Insecure Originalists'
Sarah Isgur and David Lat cover the Supreme Court's long conference and react to the sentencing of Justice Brett Kavanaugh's attempted assassin.
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BONUS | Judge Patrick Bumatay Interviews Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined Judge Patrick Bumatay at SCOTUSblog's inaugural On the Merits summit at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg Center t...
The Supreme Court’s Upcoming Term
Sarah Isgur and David French spend today’s episode reviewing nine cases the Supreme Court will decide during the upcoming term, from the intricacies o...
Selective Prosecutions
Sarah Isgur and David French unpack the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. What does the case say about the grand jury process, the risks...
Dorm Room Originalism
Sarah Isgur and David French break down the Supreme Court’s latest move: taking up a case before the lower courts have even finished with it. What doe...
The Fall of Affirmative Action | Interview: Justin Driver
Sarah Isgur and David French sit down with Justin Driver, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School, to talk about his new book, The...
The Oldest Constitutional Question | Interview: Richard Primus
Sarah Isgur and David French invite Richard Primus, author of The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power, to discuss his unorth...
Superhighways of Foreign Influence
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Sarah Isgur and David French explore the evolving battle over free speech and examine modern threats pose...
Congress Won’t Contradict Trump
When the president orders a strike, who decides if it’s legal? Sarah Isgur and David French unpack the commander in chief’s powers after a hit on an a...
Listening to a Justice | Interview: Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett joins Sarah Isgur and David French from the Lawyer’s Room at the Supreme Court. They begin with a lightning ro...
Free Speech and ‘The Executive Power’ | FIRE Crossover
David French and Sarah Isgur speak with Nico Perrino to discuss the origin story of Advisory Opinions and the few free speech issues where they disagr...