Ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French, and we have a very special

return of a friend of the pod for you today, because we're going to do some Voting Rights Act,

equal protection clause redistricting. God knows it's in the news enough right now. And

text history and tradition, the three stages of originalism.

What's wrong with this?

Coming up on advisory opinions and don't miss my email from a listener at the end.

And let's welcome returning friend of the pod, Professor Joelle Alasea from Catholic University and director of the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic intellectual tradition.

Welcome back.

Thanks, Sarah.

Glad to be here.

So I tricked you into coming on this podcast to talk about your law review article on Bruin,

but ha ha, we're going to start with redistricting, which, you know, in constitutional law world

is almost as far away from Bruin and text history and tradition as you can get.

And so this is a test of your emergency con law knowledge.

To get listeners up to speed on the latest news, we had two orders from the court that are

of great interest to your podcast hosts.

One, in Turtle Mountain Band versus How, who's the Secretary of State of North Dakota,

remember this was a case where the Eighth Circuit, two times actually, said that the Voting Rights Act didn't create a private

right of action, meaning that if you as a voter felt like the district lines violated the equal protection clause, you could write a very strongly

worded letter to the Department of Justice or to your congressman to call the Department of Justice,

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