You ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to a live emergency episode of advisory opinions. I mean, it's not really an emergency

because this was long planned, like way long planned, including last fall. But nevertheless,

we would have done an emergency podcast regardless. So hard to say. But I am Sarah Isger and this is

David French and we are live at the Harvard Law School. But David, a few notes before we

really get started here. One, it is so weird to as a former chapter president of the Harvard

Federalist Society to meet one's great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandson.

I mean, it's like it's been 800 years and I get to like visit my, you know, future generations.

And what's I think weird about it is that like he does the three principles of the Federalist

Society. And what I've noticed, I thought every chapter did that. But it appears to be a little

bit specific to Harvard and he did it with grand hand gestures. And really, again, he has

genetically, it has been passed down to really hit that emphatically word emphatically.

He's just elected. So this is his first day as Harvard Federalist Society president. And we

have an email chain that goes back now 22 years of Federalist Society presidents. And we all

send him messages. They can be snarky or heartfelt. And anyway, welcome to the fold. We are

just waiting for you to screw up. But also David, this is, it's not my first time back. But

for some reason, then the staljah hit me hard walking down mass as I will to hit me hard to.

And I'll tell you why it hit me hard because it was late March and the howling cold wind hit

my face. It's much nicer today on Friday, Thursday, the wind was blowing pretty straight. And I

thought now this feels like Cambridge. Where did you live? So I lived in, oh gosh, as it called

North Hall. Oh, you lived on campus. I lived on campus for one. Well, for one year, for one

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