Advisory Opinions

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.

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Educating the Youth

Episode Date: July 15, 2025

Sarah Isgur and David French, live from the FIRE Student Network Summer Conference, discuss free speech in non-profits and schools before Sarah takes...

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Blockbuster Cases

Episode Date: July 10, 2025

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...

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SCOTUS 2025 Term Debrief

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

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...

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Justice Kagan’s Supreme Court

Episode Date: July 1, 2025

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...

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SCOTUS Sides with Trump

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

Divided Argument hosts Daniel Epps and William Baude join Sarah Isgur to unpack the Supreme Court’s decision (ahem, non-decision) on birthright citize...

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Hubris in Legal Movements

Episode Date: June 24, 2025

Sarah Isgur and David French cover two less-exhilarating Supreme Court decisions (faxes, anyone?) and re-visit the Skrmetti decision. It’s four decisi...

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Skrmetti and Certiorari

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

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...

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Unprovoked War

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

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...

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Right To Sue the Feds

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

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...

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Abundance Judges

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

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...

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Tariff-ic Meltdowns

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

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...

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Dead Man Walking Precedent

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

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...

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A Charge on Gettysburg

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

Sarah Isgur and David French invite Judge Kevin Newsom of the 11th Circuit to discuss his time clerking for Justice David Souter and the strong humili...

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Actual Animus

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

David French returns from his other job to discuss President Trump’s transgender military policy with Sarah Isgur. Does the Supreme Court hate transge...