Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger and we're back in our respective podcast studios.

Just to tremendous thank you to the folks at the University of Tennessee who hosted this far live podcast that you heard late last week.

It was a great time. We had a great turnout and I don't know Sarah. That was fun. That's something I'd like to do again.

So much fun. Yeah, we're definitely going to do this again live podcasts. Very fun. I don't know quarterly or something maybe.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And I think some a commenter noticed this and I think we also talked about it afterwards was that it was interesting having the live podcast audience in the room.

We could see the quizzical expressions when we went a little bit to D sort of like too deep into the weeds and which allowed us to like in real time pull back and sort of say, OK, let's let's explain this a little more. So that that was helpful.

Yeah, thank goodness. We're back to just being alone so that way I can continue not explaining things well.

That was tough. Yeah, we'll just we'll just have to imagine the quizzical looks now. So, but we got a lot to cover. We're going to talk. Sarah is going to do a brief scotus update.

We're going to talk about the fifth circuit decision staying the Biden OSHA vaccine mandate. We're going to talk about the Ahmed Arbery trial and jury selection that was quite controversial over the last couple of weeks.

And then we're going to talk about the indictment of Igor Den Chingko by Justice Department special counsel John Durham for his role. Well, not for his role for his response to hit to the FBI for his role in the infamous steel dossier.

So that's a lot. So Sarah, let's just launch get us started on scotus.

For those playing at home, the Supreme Court, here's arguments October through April, but what that actually translates to is about two weeks of arguments per month.

So we're at the second week of the November arguments and a few good ones that we'll get to talk about Thursday, David. We've got a state secrets, FISA court, one being argued today. That's coming in number three for me this week for sure.

Number two is that kind of quirky first amendment case about digitized billboards and whether banning digitized billboards off company premises basically is content based and whether Austin, the city of Austin can ban digitized billboards like for instance along the highway.

That's going to get weird because we're going to we're going to have some fun talking about what is content based restrictions under the first amendment.

Because I'm not sure they got that one right at the lower court. And then we have course the number one case this week, Ramirez versus Collier.

This is the execution that was stayed about what whether that pastor can do in the execution chamber. And we have lots of friends of the pod involved this week. So on Ramirez, the Collier, the University of Texas, the premier UT.

And then we have a Supreme Court litigation student group, I brought that case. So really interesting, headed up by Aaron Busby, wonderful, wonderful litigator in her own right. And then that first amendment case I mentioned, of course, can and Shan McGahn is arguing on behalf of the billboard providers on that one.

Let's talk about Thursday looking forward to another exciting week of OT 21 arguments.

Yeah, in the Ramirez case is the one where what I want to happen is probably not going to happen, but part of what I want to happen is going to happen.

And what that means is this is the question about whether or not Ramirez pastor is allowed to enter the execution chamber chamber and lay his hands on his parishioner as he dies.

And so the we talked about this at some length in a previous podcast and my thought is he should have be allowed to do both my suspicion is he'll be allowed to enter the execution chamber, but not to touch the condemned man as he draws his last breath.

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