Scott

Advisory Opinions: David French and Sarah Isgur discuss recent news regarding legal matters. I’ve enjoyed David French for quite some time – his posture of recognizing and respecting the pluralistic reality of our society while insisting on the necessity of orthodox Christianity to uphold its historical beliefs and practices is, I think one that conservatives need to be much more enthusiastic about. Sarah Isgur is a new discovery for me since I’ve started keeping up with the output of The Dispatch. She’s a former Republican campaign operative (for Romney’s presidential campaign, as well as Carly Fiorina’s primary campaign) and worked for a while in Trump’s DoJ. Both are extremely engaging and have great chemistry on the show, but are also extremely knowledgable about matters of law and the Constitution, tendancies and beliefs of particular justices/judges and courts, and the interplay of law and politics. They cover a lot of complex issues and events that many news sources don’t. For example, the episode I was listening to this morning describes a case where Planned Parenthood is appealing a decision from the Texas Inspector General to withold state medicate funds on the basis of the video released 5 years or so ago that captured an administrator discussing how it essentially was selling fetal tissue. Great discussion of this case, with a lot of emphasis on the fact that this video was pretty much hand-waved away by the media at the time, but that Planned Parenthood did not dispute its autheniticy or veracity in the court case. Episodes can go a little long, but there is lots of information in them, and their enthusiasm and energy in their discussions make them pass by really quickly.