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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Pivot Counties

Episode Date: November 2, 2020

It’s Election Day eve and our podcast hosts have their presidential race forecasting models at the ready. After a helpful breakdown on pivot counties...

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Voting Battles Head to Court

Episode Date: October 29, 2020

We’ve already seen record early turnout this election cycle. Our hosts have three major takeaways from the surge: 1) It means the polls are more likel...

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Early Voting Numbers Explained

Episode Date: October 26, 2020

Echelon Insights predicts that we will see record turnout this election cycle. How might a surge in, say, 2o million new voters this year affect the p...

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Deer Jacking

Episode Date: October 19, 2020

Still shocked by the grand polling meltdown of 2016, many Americans on both sides of the aisle are convinced that Biden’s double digit national pollin...

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That Hunter Biden Story

Episode Date: October 15, 2020

It’s October 15, 2020, and 12.4 percent of the votes that were cast in the 2016 election have already been cast this election cycle. Sarah and David t...

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Supreme Court Fight Kicks Off

Episode Date: October 13, 2020

The Senate Judiciary Committee kicked off its confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett today with a predictably partisan spin...

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Veeps Make Their Case

Episode Date: October 8, 2020

Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence faced off Wednesday evening for their first and only vice presidential debate. But analysis of the ca...

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Constitutional Spelunking

Episode Date: October 5, 2020

Supreme Court oral arguments have resumed via telephone and our podcast hosts are nerding out. The court kicked off today with an interesting denial o...

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Politics of the Supreme Court

Episode Date: October 1, 2020

How will Amy Coney Barrett shake things up on the bench if she is confirmed by the Senate before November 3? “Amy Coney Barrett will not be as revolut...

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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...