You ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to a special edition of the Advisory Opinion podcast. I'm David French with Sarah

Isger and we're broadcasting. You say broadcasting when you're broadcasting. We're broadcasting

from a hotel in Miami at an undisclosed location because we have a special guest. No, it's

not because we have a special guest and we have a special guest today. Chief Judge Jeffrey

Sutton from the six circuit court of appeals, my home circuit. It covers Michigan, Ohio,

Tennessee and Kentucky, right?

Yes, exactly.

Yeah, so if it sounds a little odd, it's because we're in a hotel, but because we're in a hotel,

we're delighted we get to have our judge cast. So welcome.

Thank you for inviting me.

We have so many things to talk about. Yes, Judge Sutton. Two books that he has authored,

rights and structure of the Constitution, but also you may recognize Judge Sutton's name

from his mention on the Malcolm Gladwell podcast about law school. His Wikipedia entry also has

things that we're simply going to have to talk about. He was born in Saudi Arabia and

spent a summer at an archaeological dig site in Jordan. So endless things to discuss about

the life and times to be Judge Sutton.

Well, to just being born in Saudi Arabia, make you a joint Saudi U.S. citizen.

I looked into that as a youth. I was very eager to make the American Olympic team. And

one look at me would make you appreciate that that's unlikely. It did occur to me. I

might be able to make the Saudi ski team. So I did look into it at the time. I don't

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