Advisory Opinions is a new podcast from The Dispatch. Hosts David French and Sarah Isgur have a weekly conversation about the law, culture, and why it matters.
553 episodes transcribedSarah Isgur and David French are joined by Miriam Ingber, associate dean of admissions & financial aid at Yale Law School, and Kristi Jobson, dean of...
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss how Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, is attempting to get out of jail on a technicality. Could...
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss Alina Habba’s removal as U.S. attorney pick and the one consistent position of the Trump administration: We get t...
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the use of autopens as a permission structure and David’s Very Big Problems with technology and the pardon power....
Sarah Isgur, David French, and Kannon Shanmugam again reunite for the annual Paul, Weiss summer associate live recording. The three discuss Justice Ke...
Sarah Isgur and David French, live from the FIRE Student Network Summer Conference, discuss free speech in non-profits and schools before Sarah takes...
Sarah Isgur returns to her home state of Texas to join a panel of leading constitutional scholars for a deep dive into the most significant Supreme Co...
Could a parental consent law finally be headed to the Supreme Court? Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas recently declined to take up a case—but...
Pardon our legal nerd-out as Sarah Isgur, David French, Amy Howe, David Lat, and Zachary Shemtob—our dream team of SCOTUSBloggers and Advisory Opinion...
Sarah Isgur and David French break down the biggest takeaways from the Supreme Court’s latest term using SCOTUSblog’s stat pack as their guide. They a...
Divided Argument hosts Daniel Epps and William Baude join Sarah Isgur to unpack the Supreme Court’s decision (ahem, non-decision) on birthright citize...
Sarah Isgur and David French face the muddiness of a case on moving criminal aliens to South Sudan, the messiness of death penalty cases, and the pote...
Sarah Isgur and David French cover two less-exhilarating Supreme Court decisions (faxes, anyone?) and re-visit the Skrmetti decision. It’s four decisi...
Sarah Isgur and David French break down the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to uphold Tennessee’s law that bans transgender medical intervention for mino...
Sarah Isgur and David French break down Israel’s latest strikes on Iran and the legal questions surrounding them. Was it a justifiable preemptive move...
Sarah Isgur and David French check the temperature on Thursday’s Supreme Court hand downs (cold term, anyone?), diving into a case where federal agent...
Sarah Isgur and David French break down the legal merits of the Trump administration’s mobilization of the National Guard and the latest opinions from...
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the hottest case on everyone’s lips—Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County—and how buzz around Abu...
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the legal back and forth regarding President Donald Trump’s tariffs before turning to his attacks on the Federali...
Sarah Isgur and David French explain the Supreme Court opinion in Trump v. Wilcox on presidential removal limits. Plus: an update on the religious cha...
