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Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger and we're beginning this podcast laughing because we had some pre podcast content that was just gold that we unfortunately cannot share with you.

We're a chatty mood. Happy we're heading into the holidays.

Celebrating some Hanukkah around here.

That's right. Good times.

All right. We've got a lot to cover.

We've got a quick FBI Twitter update.

We are going to cover a fifth circuit case striking down the contractor, the federal government contractor,

COVID vaccine mandate. We're going to go through title 42 immigration issues. Electoral count act looks like it is reform is part of the omnibus and we're going to talk about what's in that.

And that's all going to be fast, fast, fast, and then we're going to slow down for a slate interview of justice.

I mean, of Judge Bill prior, really interesting stuff. And there was a New York Times piece talking about the present court and what's different about it in their view.

And it was a really interesting piece in the Times and we're going to chat about that.

But let's start with our quick stuff. All right.

Let's start first with FBI Twitter, Sarah. You said there was a tweet in the latest Twitter files drop that peaked your interest.

See, this is a problem. Once we talk about something, then every time there's an update, I'm going to have to update what I said.

So to recap, what we said was there just isn't the evidence that Twitter felt like they were being pressured by the FBI.

They're not state actors. Therefore, no first amendment violation. That's the short version.

Listen to the last episode if you want the much longer version.

So the new Twitter files is not about the FBI asking Twitter to take action or inaction, depending on their policies about certain tweets that might be misinformation about the election.

This is about the Hunter Biden laptop story and related intelligence community stuff on Russian disinformation and things like that.

I actually think that the folks who are publishing this don't quite understand the law enough to know what they've got here.

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