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Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Izker.

We've got some really interesting stuff to talk about today. All of it except for the final topic which is

the first topic is all related, all interesting, all extremely topical and all extremely contentious.

We're going to talk about the Tara Read allegation against Joe Biden, the Tara Read Sexual Assault allegation against Joe Biden.

We're going to talk about a Trump tweet and use it as a launching pad for yet another brief discussion of federalism.

We're going to spend some time on a Kentucky court order, granting a restraining order against the enforcement of a mayor who decided to ban drive up church, not in person church, but drive up church.

There's an awful lot to cover.

Sarah says at the start of every dispatch podcast, let's dive right in.

David, wait, we have a small disclaimer. Mostly to save Caleb, our wonderful producer.

We've had a bit of a traumatic morning with the cats over here and I'm just anticipating some a lot of meowing.

We had one cat lock herself somehow all by herself in a closet like she went in in the door shut behind her and then the boy cat who many years ago was

a Jason Lee struck by lightning so is very afraid of bad weather found himself trapped outside during a bit of a sudden thunderstorm that we just had here in DC and he has feelings.

So just flagging the meows that may be coming.

Look, I mean, the official advisory opinions podcast position on cat trauma is that we're very gracious towards our furry friends during these troubled times.

Now they may just go nap, right? They may nap it off.

Right. So I'm sure the listeners will be forgiving in advance of any meowing distressed me outing that they hear.

So diving right in from the light to the heavy.

How have you tracked the terror read allegation against Joe Biden? Have you have you before say this weekend when New York Times and Washington Post really kind of dug into it?

How closely had you been following that?

Yeah, so I've been following it for the last several months when it first when she first changed her initial story from last year to include now an assault allegation.

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