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Stopping the Stop Woke Act

Phone calls from middle schoolers is not a way to influence Congress.

Despite a slow start to the week in legal news, Sarah and David have a tightly packed episode today starting with a dissent from denial from Justice Thomas on bias response teams at a Virginia university.

The Agenda:
—Bias response teams
—ACLU vs. NLRB
Florida’s Stop Woke Act naw-dogged by 11th Circuit
Texas’ law on minor access to explicit content at the Fifth Circuit
—TikTok: Welcome to the culture war
Kevin Newsom’s speech on text, history, and tradition
—Be careful with tradition
Understanding standing doctrine
—The Oscars and a good legal movie

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Sarah Isgur is a senior editor at The Dispatch and is based in northern Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2019, she had worked in every branch of the federal government and on three presidential campaigns. When Sarah is not hosting podcasts or writing newsletters, she’s probably sending uplifting stories about spiders to Jonah, who only pretends to love all animals.

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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