Courtroom Cams and Elon’s Crusade

Wild happenings in Wisconsin.

Published September 7, 2023

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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David French

David French is a columnist for the New York Times. He’s a former senior editor of The Dispatch. He’s the author most recently of Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation.

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