Getting Out of the Redistricting Business
6/5/202657 min
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the Supreme Court’s Alabama redistricting decision, a plea deal from the former national security adviser, and the best legal movies ever made. The Agenda: –June 4 Opinions –Alabama’s new maps –John Bolton pleads guilty –Did the media actually get this right? –Gender and the Supreme Court’s culture –Favorite legal movies –Another round of Would You Rather! Show Notes: –The Blessings of Liberty with Jeffrey Rosen - Podcast Order Sarah’s book here. Advisory Opinions is a production of SCOTUSblog and The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. Click here to sign up for our new Advisory Opinions newsletter, and click here to access all of The Dispatch’s offerings, including audio versions of all our articles and newsletters. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsSarah Isgur· Host0:01
You ready?
David French· Host0:01
I was born ready.
Sarah Isgur· Host0:03
[upbeat music] Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isgur. That's David French. And you know what we're not gonna do? Talk about the three decisions the Supreme Court handed down on Thursday morning. David and I simply can't muster the enthusiasm that is required for an Advisory Opinions episode on three important business docket decisions that were all unanimously decided by the Court. Instead, we're gonna talk about the 6-3, you know, third Calais decision to allow Alabama to use its preferred maps, and then we're gonna talk about John Bolton pleading out to the mishandling of classified information. And then we're gonna go to just some, some fun stuff. Does it make a difference to have women on the Supreme Court, or can we have nine dudes with the same decisions? And what are our favorite legal movies, characters? A lot of you have been sending in that question. And finally, we're going back to the would you rathers, and it's really testing whether we actually believe what we say because these are hard would you rathers, and I'm so glad- I mean, I'm not. I wish I had been in this class, but