Ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And you know what we're not going to do?

Talk about the three decisions the Supreme Court handed down on Thursday morning. David and I simply can't muster the enthusiasm that is required for an advisory opinions episode on three important business docket decisions

that were all unanimously decided by the court. Instead, we're going to talk about the

six three, you know, third Calais decision to allow Alabama to use its preferred maps.

And then we're going to talk about John Bolton,

pleading out to the mishandling of classified information. And then we're going to go to just some fun stuff. Does it make a difference to have women on the Supreme Court? Or can we have nine dudes

with the same decisions? And what are our favorite legal movies, characters?

A lot of you have been sending in that question. And finally, we're going back to the would you

rathers. And it's really testing whether we actually believe what we say, because these are hard

would you rather's. And I'm so glad. I mean, I'm not. I wish I had been

in this class, but I'm really glad I'm not in this AP government class because this would have

been really a hard day in school. All this and more on advisory opinions. David, before we get

going, we have a new podcast that we need to welcome to the world.

Jeff Rosen, the former president of the National Constitution Center, has joined Fire as a senior

fellow, and he has a new weekly podcast called The Blessings of Liberty, colon, conversations

on the Constitution history and the American idea.

Amarica's Constitution over there, our partners, are actually replaying in whole, the first

episodes.

If you go listen to America's Constitution, you're going to hear Jeff Rosen talking to

Drumroll Justice Neil Gorsuch for that first episode. Am I happy for Jeff Rosen, for the Big Get,

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