Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger and we're

of course going to be talking about the Derek Chauvin verdict. We're also going to be talking about

a really interesting court filing in Texas that, um, Sarah might have highlighted a tiny bit of

hypocrisy by a politician. Can you imagine? It's, it's stunning. It's stunning. And we're also

going to be talking about if we've got time, an interesting question about can or should the law,

as our nation becomes more politically divided and as corporations become more politically engaged,

can or should the law protect employees from political discrimination? So we've kind of got three

big topics. But let's start with big topic number one. And Sarah, I just want to go to you for your,

you know, right off the bat about your reflection on the verdict itself and the reaction to the verdict.

I've got some thoughts on both, but kick us off.

So it's interesting like, you know, how there's these like, tell us your age without telling us your

age, the three events in my life where it's like, where were you when are the challenger explosion,

9-11 and the OJ Simpson verdict. And I think that one of my initial reactions when we heard

that the jury had reached a verdict was a, obviously, he's going to get convicted. Any jury that

comes back that quickly, it's very good sign for the prosecution. And B, I was a little surprised

that the judge didn't push the timing to the tomorrow morning. You know, that was really set to

happen. They said between 430 and 5, I was a little worried it would happen closer to 6. If, and

you know, the judge at that point does not know the verdict, if the verdict had gone the other way,

sort of the last thing you want is that coming out at 6 p.m. So those were some of my like initial

thoughts. Look, this looks really good for the prosecution, but also if it's for whatever reason,

not, this is not the ideal time of day. In fact, I had, we had a date night plan for like at least

a month, maybe over a month, to go to this restaurant downtown. And as soon as they said,

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