
About this episode
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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