Gutting the Voting Rights Act | Interview: Judge Roy K. Altman
4/30/20261 hr 24 min
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the decision in a racially challenged redistricting map case, weird indictments, and whether Israel is guilty of genocide. The Agenda:–No one consulted the chief justice on flyovers–Reverse and Remand on First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport–Living in a post-Dobbs world–Supreme Court strikes down redistricting map challenged as racially discriminatory–James Comey has been indicted, again–Indictments on Southern Poverty Law Center’s paid informants–Israel on trial–Why jury trials are amazing Order Sarah’s book here. Advisory Opinions is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of our articles, members-only newsletters, and bonus podcast episodes—click here. 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 we are just gonna have to tick through the agenda today because we have two decisions from the Supreme Court, both of which, uh, were in our top 10 list, and we've got indictments. I mean, they're dumb, but we're gonna talk about them. Uh, and then, of course, we've got this incredible interview with Judge Roy Altman, frequent guest and very much friend of the pod, about his new book, Israel on Trial, where we get into everything from the book, sure. But then we head off to talk about the most American thing you can do, your duty as a citizen, and the gift that we've been given and how, um, maybe it's in crisis right now. So stay tuned for that as well. We'll be right back on Advisory Opinions. Now, David, we are not gonna talk about the oral arguments from this week 'cause frankly, we got too much in the opinion handout on Wednesday morning. So the geofence oral argument and the temporary protected status oral argument from the interim docket, we're gonna talk about in the next