What are the limits of presidential power? How many
days has it been since President Trump’s TikTok ban moratorium went
into place? What is the state of the conservative legal movement?
And where did former FIRE president David French
go on his first date?
French and Sarah Isgur
of the popular legal podcast “Advisory
Opinions” join the show to answer these questions and
discuss the few free speech issues where they disagree with
FIRE.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:18 Origin story of “Advisory Opinions”
08:15 Disagreements between FIRE and AO
15:04 Why FIRE doesn’t editorialize on the content of
speech
24:27 Limits of presidential power
43:30 Free speech, the dread of tyrants
51:01 The prosecution of political figures
58:01 Cracker Barrel
01:00:09 State of the conservative legal movement
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