Welcome to the Dispatch podcast.

I'm your host Sarah Isger.

And this week I am interviewing one David French.

He and I talked about the legal intricacies of what happened

with the Texas abortion law at the Supreme Court

on the flagship podcast, advisory opinions.

But I wanted to go further.

I really wanted to talk about the politics of abortion

and who better than David French.

Let's dive right in.

David, I don't know where else to start.

I'm watching this.

I'm looking at it.

It again, we're talking pure politics.

This looks like an enormous gift to the Biden administration

who needed something to take the media's focus off Afghanistan.

Was this a giant F up for the Republicans?

Let's start with that first.

Giant?

I'm going to hold open that question on giant.

Because one of my points is I think because we're likely

to see the Texas law blocked relatively soon, days weeks.

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