Trump Found Liable for Sexual Abuse

Sarah Isgur is a senior editor of The Dispatch and host of the Advisory Opinions podcast. With experience on three presidential campaigns and all three branches, she knows how decisions in Washington get made.

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Andrew L 2 weeks ago

Rewatching Melancholy and was reminded of the cops in Robinson:

https://twitter.com/IBlackmailLands/status/1658482405882368004?s=20

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Matthew S. Taylor 3 weeks ago

Have y'all seen this?

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4179628

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html

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Randall Briggs Edited 3 weeks ago

Re Sarah's Gettysburg experience, I was on the Staff Ride Team at Fort Leavenworth in my last assignment in the U.S. Army. We taught a course on the American Civil War to our international students. The course culminated with a staff ride at Gettysburg. Slimeball Dan Sickles was one of key personalities/near-goats of the battle. His acquittal for murdering Barton Key was the first acquittal with a temporary insanity defense. The staff ride culminated with a reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

I urge all Americans who have not done so to visit Gettysburg. Pretend that all those memorials aren't there, and imagine what our forbears went through on those three sweltering days in July 1863.

The rise of Trump has made me rethink Lincoln's decision to impose a "soft" peace on the defeated South. I now believe that more traitors should have been hanged in 1865.

Re Borglum, he was a white supremacist through and through. In his mind, Mount Rushmore was a monument to that belief.

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Dominic 3 weeks ago

If anyone is in the Hudson Valley NY region, there is a great museum in Peekskill, NY called the Lincoln Depot Museum for Civil War buffs. As a side note, Sickles is mentioned in the famous Ken Burns Civil War documentary - that’s where I first encountered his story.

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Jason S 3 weeks ago

Sarah, I was really glad to hear you talk about your mixed feelings about the Confederate monuments. You were on this trip with my husband, and I was so sad to not be able to go. So I made him go up the weekend before with me so that I could go too! You mentioned the North Carolina monument specifically, and that one really threw me. It talked about "glory" and "heroism," and I had a conversation with my husband afterwards about this. Having Confederate monuments in this setting didn't bother me like it does it in other more reverent settings, like in town squares or Monument Avenue in Richmond. But referring to Confederate soldiers as "glorious" or "heroic" bothers me. It wasn't a glorious or heroic cause that they were fighting for. So I'm not sure how they themselves can be considered glorious or heroic. I think I'd say they were brave. And we can and should properly respect and mourn them in this setting. But the word choice matters to me. My husband wasn't as bothered by it, but it sounds like you and I are of similar minds on this.

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George Maxwell 3 weeks ago

Shiloh battlefield also like Gettysburg has monuments all over it to different units from both sides of the war.

Also the more important battle strategically concluded on the same day - Vicksburg. It opened up the Mississippi and split the Confederacy in half. Also it led to the rise of Grant and Sherman out of Vicksburg who were masters of grand strategy which was using the superior resources to destroy the Confederacy’s ability to fight.

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Andrew L 2 weeks ago

It's easy to say that knowing the outcome, but if the main union army folds at Gettysburg and Lee besieges Washington the whole western campaign might just not matter.

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Cmmonson 3 weeks ago

I was excited (sort of) when Sarah started taking about Daniel Sickles and I could go, "I know who that is!" The company I work for does some work for Arlington National Cemetery. (Sickles is buried there.)Recently, we were writing a Civil War themed walking tour and he was on our list of people to potentially include. Our team had a lively time reading up on him, even though we ultimately didn't include him.

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Frederickwf 3 weeks ago

Now that David isn’t with The Dispatch, where do I go to complain about his mispronunciation of Jena?

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Iwhitney Edited 3 weeks ago

Back in December Sarah said (regarding the Oath Keeper's criminal trial) that inconsistent verdicts are a ground for appeal of a *criminal* conviction. I commented back then because that is not accurate to criminal law in most jurisdictions, including federal. (See Dunn v. US, 284 U.S. 390 (1932) and United States v. Powell, 469 U.S. 57, 66 (1984).)

But in this episode she made the point that inconsistent verdicts are grounds for appeal in a *civil* trial. That is true in most jurisdictions. From my knowledge, this issue is usually dealt with in federal courts under FRCP 49(b) or in motions for new trial. But I think it is worth mentioning that this issue is distinct between the two realms of law--criminal and civil.

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Ken Johnson 3 weeks ago

I’m not proud that this is my first comment here, but I was mildly disappointed when Sarah’s inner 14 year old allowed David’s alphabetic enumeration of the alleged acts against E. Jean Carroll to pass without so much as a suppressed giggle. Timestamp 26:04–“…Trump did A, B, and C, but not […] all the way into D…” I know I laughed out loud, anyway.

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