Courtroom Cams and Elon's Crusade

09/07/23 • 76 min

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Exciting news from host-in-absentia Sarah Isgur. Partisan gerrymandering. Cameras in courts. David French and guest-host David Lat have so much to cover in so little time. Here we go:

-New arrivals

-Purdue Pharma update

-Should the Trump trials be televised? (The Davids disagree)

-Wisconsin's judicial elections mess

-Alabama's ongoing redistricting wars and systemic racism

-Elon Musk goes after the ADL

Show notes:

-2020 DOJ press release on Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family

-Just Security on Judge Jones's supplemental briefing order

-Caplan v. Trump (Section 3 ruling)

-Charlie Sykes on the Wisconsin Supreme Court drama

-Singleton v. Allen (Alabama Voting Rights Act case)

-David Firestone on Alabama Voting Rights Act case

-Elon Musk blames ADL for lost revenue (NBC)

-Musk blames Latham for San Francisco’s problems. Huh? (Reuters)

-David French's NYT column on Texas age-verification law

-AO episode featuring Ari Cohn on age-verification laws

-Video version of this episode

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Exciting news from host-in-absentia Sarah Isgur. Partisan gerrymandering. Cameras in courts. David French and guest-host David Lat have so much to cover in so little time. Here we go:

-New arrivals

-Purdue Pharma update

-Should the Trump trials be televised? (The Davids disagree)

-Wisconsin's judicial elections mess

-Alabama's ongoing redistricting wars and systemic racism

-Elon Musk goes after the ADL

Show notes:

-2020 DOJ press release on Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family

-Just Security on Judge Jones's supplemental briefing order

-Caplan v. Trump (Section 3 ruling)

-Charlie Sykes on the Wisconsin Supreme Court drama

-Singleton v. Allen (Alabama Voting Rights Act case)

-David Firestone on Alabama Voting Rights Act case

-Elon Musk blames ADL for lost revenue (NBC)

-Musk blames Latham for San Francisco’s problems. Huh? (Reuters)

-David French's NYT column on Texas age-verification law

-AO episode featuring Ari Cohn on age-verification laws

-Video version of this episode

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Previous Episode

Extraordinary Wits

After David Lat is publicly inducted into the AO family by undergoing a fan-based correction, he and David French run through an eclectic mic of legal topics, starting with an update on a heated chess lawsuit. Join the two as they discuss:

-Chess settlesment

-Mark Meadows’ risky testimony

-Amy Coney Barrett’s not so news-worthy comments

-Trump’s trial date conundrum

-Hardball playing out at the North Carolina Supreme Court

-Sackler family’s unpopular bankruptcy appeal via Purdue Pharma

Show Notes:

-Past AO episode on chess lawsuit

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Next Episode

Did the Biden Admin Violate the First Amendment?

It's a grab bag show for David & David: Mark Meadows takes the L in Fulton County, the Fifth Circuit issues an injunction against the Biden administration, and Argentina is forced to make a $16 billion payout. Plus: Vanessa Oterro, founder of the Media Bias Chart, joins the show to drop some data on why you should definitely keep tuning in to Advisory Opinions.

Show Notes:

-Judge Jones' Ruling in Meadows Case

-Poem David French was referencing (probably)

-Media Bias chart

-Argentina's $16 billion payout

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