Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the Texas Supreme Court’s blue wave, the possibility of a majority-Democrat Supreme Court, and one of the biggest Supreme Court cases of the term: St. Mary’s Catholic Parish v. Roy.
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The Agenda:
–Texas attorney general is now blue
–Will Justice Samuel Alito retire?
–How President Donald Trump will legislate
Show Notes:
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I was born ready.
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Welcome to Advisory Opinions.
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We are taping this the day after the boom of the midterm elections.
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It is a legal podcast, and we are going to talk about the legal ramifications of that election, uh, including whether I just moved to Texas for my husband's job, and now we're gonna have to move again because all of those businesses that moved to Texas [laughs] may need to rethink why they moved in the first place.
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Uh, but David, we are gonna walk through the world of state solicitors general, the Texas Supreme Court.
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Is Justice Alito gonna retire now?
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Could Trump fill his spot even if he doesn't announce his retirement?
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Although my biggest underline of all of this, if everything that Republicans did for the last 10 years was to prevent a majority of Democratic nominees on the Supreme Court, was it all for naught?
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[laughs]
And is this actually what will end up saving nine on the Supreme Court?
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Plus, David, we have to talk about the St. Mary's argument, one of the biggest cases of the term, and it's gonna get second billing on this podcast.
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-K program, was this about a neutral law of general applicability, or was it about circumventing the Carson case and the New York Times op-ed that may have cost them everything?
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So basically, people donated just to give students free membership to the Dispatch.
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So if you are a student, we've got a lot of free memberships to give out.
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And if you're not a student but you've got one in your life, send them the link.
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Basically, you can go to thedispatch.com/student-sponsorships, plural, and fill out the short form.
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You don't need a credit card.
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Nothing renews automatically.
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Our team will get you set up.
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Teachers, you can sign up a whole class there too.
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Uh, so this is for the Dispatch, and I think it sounds like a really cool thing.
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Um, however, a thing happened last night.
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