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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Litigation and Taxes

Episode Date: September 28, 2020

Several new polls were released over the weekend and Donald Trump is still trailing Joe Biden by roughly 7 to 10 points, depending where you look. Des...

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Election Law Explained

Episode Date: September 24, 2020

A Louisville grand jury on Wednesday indicted one officer in connection with the March 13 police raid that took Breonna Taylor’s life. The grand jury...

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Death of a Supreme Court Giant

Episode Date: September 21, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, rocking the nation and setting the stage for a blistering Senate confirmation fight  should the Senate Judiciary C...

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Tell Somebody in Your Town

Episode Date: September 14, 2020

For the month of August, the Biden campaign outraised the Trump campaign by a whopping $150 million. (Biden raked in $360 million last month compared...

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How to Commit Voter Fraud?

Episode Date: September 8, 2020

Last week, President Trump encouraged North Carolina voters to test their state's election security. David and Sarah discuss how, exactly, someone com...

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Time, Place and Manner

Episode Date: September 3, 2020

There’s a bit of post-2016 election PTSD among American political strategists, where any slight uptick in Trump’s polling numbers is perceived as an e...

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Satire Meet Reality

Episode Date: September 2, 2020

Ever since its humble beginnings in March 2016, The Babylon Bee—a Christian, conservative version of The Onion—has been a godsend for Americans who ha...

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Fog in Kenosha

Episode Date: August 27, 2020

Violent riots escalated quicky in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after the police shooting of Jacob Blake. . On Wednesday, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was charg...

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Sweeping to Gold

Episode Date: August 24, 2020

Today our hosts are joined by Phill Drobnick, head coach of the Olympic curling team, for some hot takes about the sport that inspired Sarah’s new cam...

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Legacy Nerds

Episode Date: August 17, 2020

The 9th Circuit recently heard an appeal from a challenge to the state of California’s ban on large capacity magazines (in this case, any magazine tha...

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Here We Go Again

Episode Date: August 13, 2020

In 2017, an anonymous individual named “Q” began posting on a public messaging board called 4chan about “Pizzagate,” a conspiracy theory alleging that...

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Our Place in the Stars

Episode Date: August 10, 2020

How realistic is the SpaceX dream to get to Mars? What does the latest scientific literature have to say about supernovae? Is there intelligent life i...

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Castle Doctrine Differences

Episode Date: August 6, 2020

People who watch and comment on politics do so very differently than campaign operatives do. Campaigns use voter scores and voter modeling—which is es...

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12 Angry Dinosaurs

Episode Date: August 4, 2020

Rewind millions of years and a dinosaur-killing asteroid is racing toward Earth at breakneck speed. But what exactly happened in the immediate afterma...

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That Escalated Quickly

Episode Date: July 23, 2020

A federal judge ordered the release of Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen from prison on Thursday. On July 9, Cohen and his lawyer went into the U....

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A Supreme Court Odyssey

Episode Date: July 20, 2020

The 2019-2020 Supreme Court term was quite the spectacle: the court canceled its March and April argument sessions, held oral arguments by telephone f...