
About this episode
Three qualified immunity cases are thoroughly analyzed in a particularly depressing AO episode, but first David and Sarah talk through an injunction on asylum seekers some are calling “Trump-Lite”, plus:
-Broken immigration systems
-Say it with me folks, “Congress, do your job.”
-Too much too soon too fast
-Courts not complying with qualified immunity statutes
-Does Congress have better things to show rather than Hunter Biden revenge porn?
-Advice to prospecting law students
-Small town gossip and country songs
-Sarah’s victory lap around Hunter Biden plea deal
-Be nice to the docketing clerks
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Show Notes:
-Update: AO still has the best listeners
-Ilya Somin for Reason, "Supreme Court Rules Red"
-David Lat's Original Jurisdiction Substack
-One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
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