You ready?

I was born ready. Welcome to Advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Asger. That's David French and we have our long-awaited stellar

guest judge Kevin Newsom of the 11th Circuit. We're gonna talk standing, we're

gonna talk clerk hiring, we going to talk health scares, college football, and the TV

show for all mankind, like everything in between and we'll make sure to get to

jurisdiction stripping, something we just haven't talked enough about on this podcast.

So this is a potpourri episode, everyone.

It's long, it's fun, it's nerdy, it's weird.

It's all the things the Judge Newsom is. I hope you enjoy.

Judge, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks so much for having me guys.

You know, you and I have known each other for some time, not too long, but my understanding is you might know David longer than me?

Yeah so we're going to see if this is a surprise to David.

When I, after the first year, after my first year in law school, I

summoned at a small litigation firm in, not litigation,

but that's a boutique firm in Nashville, Tennessee called Ferris Warfield, a candidate.

And a fellow named David French was a young associate there and was effectively sort of the

summer program coordinator among the lawyers and so he kept the four of us entertained and yes so you

know I sort of ended up going in a different way I went to a different firm, lost touch with David, and, you know, flash forward

15 years, my family and I have moved back to Birmingham and I'm listening to a podcast and I think it's Bill Crystal who was advertising the fact that he in the

run up to 2016 has a stealth presidential candidate who will make the world safe and he mentions that it's a guy named David French and I thought well that's interesting I used to know a guy named David French and then I realized it was the same freaking David French who had going on to do all of these

interesting things including enlisting in the military and going overseas and so

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