Advisory Opinions

District Map Fights Before the 2026 Midterms


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David Lat joins Sarah Isgur (see ya later, French) to discuss the three-judge panel overturning Alabama’s congressional maps, a new lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s slush fund, and a lying Judge.

The Agenda:

–No redistricting according to race

–Nonsense lawsuits

Dragging courts into political fights

–Moving honey buns is interstate commerce

–Sanction more judges?

–Feeling Wicker-ty

–The Arbitration Act is sexy!

Making clerks very uncomfortable

Show Notes:

Pitchford v. Cain 

Flowers Foods v. Brock

Rutherford v. United States

Fernandez v. United StatesWickard v. Filburn

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