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The Trump Administration's Internal Arguments Over Habeas Corpus

6/16/20261 hr

Sarah Isgur and David French break down the most recent cert grants out of the Supreme Court's order list and Trump's argument for suspending habeas corpus. The Agenda: —Paid petitions vs. In Forma Pauperis —Six-person juries in Florida —Can undocumented immigrants be held indefinitely? —New York Times reporting on Trump and habeas corpus —Leaked memo fallout —Lawyers using AI —Georgia campaign finance laws —On LSAT accommodations Show notes: —Ramos v. Louisiana —The White House staff secretary’s habeas corpus memo 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 seconds

  1. Sarah Isgur· Host0:01

    You ready?

  2. David French· Host0:01

    I was born ready.

  3. Sarah Isgur· Host0:03

    [upbeat music] Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isgur, that's David French. We've got cert grants. David, I think I'm gonna surprise you with one. I think you're gonna like it. Think you're gonna be into it. Think you're gonna be intrigued by it. We'll see. We also have internal memos from the staff secretary to the chief of staff at the White House on the suspension of habeas corpus and invoking the Insurrection Act. Heisenberg uncertainty principle, all of you engineers, chemists, and who write me angry emails about how I don't know what that means, you're not gonna like this podcast. And AI's legal fail rate. Eh? Are we there? Eh. An 11th Circuit case on incumbent protection, and finally, we revisit the accommodations conversation, but this time with data. Thanks, listeners. And David, I'll just tell you that I held a birthday party for a whole bunch of six-year-olds, and I think you would have really enjoyed this. There was a 50-foot Star Wars bounce house obstacle course.

  4. David French· Host1:26

    You had me at Star Wars. I mean, [laughs] that's

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