Former U.S. Assistant Attorneys General Stephen Boyd and Jody Hunt, as well as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Prim Escalona join Sarah Isgur for a live recording of Advisory Opinions at the University of Alabama.

The Agenda:

—An update on the Alabama IVF ruling

—To go to law school or not to go?

—Private practice vs public service

—Relationship and mom advice in high-stressed jobs

—Audience QA

Show Notes:

—Chevron Deference discussed on Advisory Opinions.

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Judges Jennifer Elrod and Charles Eskridge join Sarah and David to explain the “inns” and outs of a special networking group for attorneys.

The Agenda:

—SCOTUS declines to hear TJ High School case[should we spell out?]

—Harvard, antisemitic cartoons, and free speech

—Biden’s authority to shut the border

—The Inn of Court explained

—Taylor Swift-themed parodies

—Sarah sings for a second

Show Notes:

-Contact [email protected] for more information on the Houston showing

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Sarah and David dive into an Alabama Supreme Court case designating embryos as minors and explain how this might affect abortion policy at large.

The Agenda:

—Has Alabama banned in vitro fertilization (IVF)?

—Sarah’s experience with IVF

—The post-Roe world

—Climate scientist wins $1 million defamation case

—Fani Willis and Nathan Wade take the stand

—Donald Trump’s corporate death penalty

—AO advice column: marrying a lawyer

Show Notes:

—David Lat's Original Jurisdiction

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Do people have a right to gun ownership even if it conflicts the “spirit of Aloha”? Sarah and David dig into a 53-page opinion from the Supreme Court of Hawaii that teeters on the edge of defiance.

The Agenda:

—Clarifying public accommodation and the anti-Zionist bookstore

—Carrying a gun without a permit v. the Second Amendment

—The Law of the Splintered Paddle

—Bruen makes an appearance

—Trump's briefs (to the Supreme Court)

Show Notes:

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Memory issues, ghost writers, and presidential prosecutions. Media outlets are cherry picking bits and pieces from the Hur Report on Biden’s handling of classified documents, but Sarah and David spend a full episode analyzing its legal standards and implications.

The Agenda:

—Disclosing biases

—Standards of evidence

—Biden’s too old

—Can we get the full recordings?

—No security clearance for the ghost writer

—Partisan brains reading the report

—“No Zionists Allowed” in a bookstore

Show Notes:

—The Hur report

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Sarah and David cover the oral argument at the Supreme Court regarding the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to block Trump from the ballot in the state.

The Agenda:

—David’s unpleasant déjà vu

—All the ways Colorado will lose

—The textualist approach

—What process is due?

—Non-Mutual Collateral Estoppel

—David responds to Justice Kagan

—Griffin’s case

—U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton

—The advocates

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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously decided that Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution. On today's emergency pod, Sarah and David react to the decision's substance and how the timing affects the election.

The Agenda:

—Timing is everything

—Word of the day: estoppel

—Will SCOTUS take the case?

—The opinion’s flaws

—Whatis a president immune from?

—What is an official act?

—The parade of horribles argument

—Why the Colorado disqualification case is relevant

—The New Yorker: Sarah Isgur's Majority Report

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Sarah and David invite District Judge Vince Chhabria on the pod to explain the state of multidistrict litigation and answer the question: Why does he listen to Advisory Opinions?

The Agenda:

—Justice Breyer’s jurisprudence

—Judging vs. personal value judgments

—David’s cringe a cappella group name

—Constitutionality of magistrate judges

—How to fix forum shopping

—MDLs, explained

—The pros and cons of MDLs

—How to become a judge

—Judge Chhabria’s clerk hiring process

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Judge John K. Bush of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals joins Sarah to discuss the method and merits of the "history and tradition test." But first, Sarah and David dive into some Supreme Court gossip.

The Agenda:

—Addressing Justice Sotomayor's comments

—David's gross speculation

—More immigration talk

—The problem with Remain in Mexico

—Why we have hate crimes

—Tiers of scrutiny

—The problems with "history and tradition"

—How to become a clerk for Judge Bush

—How Judge Bush judges judging

Show Notes:

—Judge Bush's profile at the Federalist Society

—Turner v. United States

—R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul

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Sarah and David dive deep into the state of immigration law and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's legal battle with the Biden administration.

The Agenda:

—Amicus briefs for funsies

—The asylum system problem

—How to fix the crisis at the border

—The border deal in the Senate

—Civil War cosplay

—National Guard and Texit detour

—Football vs. politics redux

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