Can Transgender People Serve in the Military?
6/12/20261 hr 9 min
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the three SCOTUS decisions that dropped Thursday morning, a D.C. Circuit decision on President Donald Trump's ban on transgender military members, and accommodations running rampant at law schools. Oh, and a federal judge charged with battery and destruction of physical property. The Agenda: –Sign up for the SCOTUSblog newsletter –We are faced with the duddiest of duds –What is estoppel? –You can only try a defendant in the district where his crime was committed –Why is a Church of the Holy Trinity reference basically a backhand? –Transgender people can serve in the military –We should get rid of accommodations for aspiring attorneys –Burden of proof: Federal judge caught in altercation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsSarah Isgur· Host0:01
Ready?
David French· Host0:01
I was born ready.
Sarah Isgur· Host0:03
Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And we've got three cases from the Supreme Court that, you know what? You don't think you're going to care about them, but you're actually probably still not going to care that much about them. But they're fun, guys.
David French· Host0:31
No, you will. You will. We started off not caring, and then we ended up caring a lot.
Sarah Isgur· Host0:36
We'll also talk about the DC Circuit decision on Trump's ban for transgender military members, accommodations running rampant at law schools, and bad behavior by judges continues once again. But before we jump into it, David, two things to mention. One, you should sign up for the AO newsletter because we are sending out the video, transcript, a summary of what all we're doing. You can sign up for the newsletter at scotusblog.com slash podcast slash advisory opinions or just go to scotusblog and get to AO. You'll find it. Also, David, we've got merch. That's right. If you ever needed a hat that tells people I'm a dork, but in different words. We have hats that say advisory opinions and SCOTUS blog and all of the above. So that way you