All the Things Wrong with Trump’s Billion-Dollar Fund

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Sarah Isgur and David French analyze Trump's billion-dollar fund and discuss related legal issues and recent Supreme Court developments.

Sarah Isgur and David French analyze President Donald Trump’s $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund through the lens of three legal “buckets,” and talk about how federal appropriations work and the Obama-era case that hangs over this legal issue. The two also discuss the Supreme Court’s latest cert grant on a Title IX case, plus the circuit split brewing over the First Amendment and judicial elections. The Agenda: –Court agrees to hear case on the ability of employees to bring certain suits for sex discrimination –Going through the settlement agreement, it’s practically a blank check! –Todd Blanche essentially pardons Trump’s family –‘That’s not how appropriations work.’ –Georgia Supreme Court race finishes strong Show Notes: –Chief Judge William Pryor’s opinion –Anti-Weaponization Fund –Keepseagle v. Vilsack Advisory Opinions is a production of SCOTUSblog and The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. Click here to sign up for our new Advisory Opinions newsletter, and click here to access all of The Dispatch’s offerings, including audio versions of all our articles and newsletters. If you’d like to remove all…

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Hosts: Sarah Isgur, David French

Topics covered

• Trump's anti-weaponization fund
• federal appropriations
• Supreme Court
• Title IX
• First Amendment
• judicial elections

Keywords

• Trump
• anti-weaponization fund
• federal appropriations
• Title IX
• First Amendment
• judicial elections
• Keepseagle v. Vilsack
• Georgia Supreme Court

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Organizations: SCOTUSblog, The Dispatch, Georgia Supreme Court, Obama

Books & works: Keepseagle v. Vilsack

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