You ready?

I was born ready. Welcome to a new year of advisory opinions.

Happy 2024, David French.

Happy 2024, Sarah Isker.

So I thought we'd just sort of go around the horn.

As the year ended, we knew we were running sort of go around the horn as the year ended we knew we were

running out of time we were leaving things behind there has been some news in the

two weeks that since we've talked but not a ton so actually I think we can kind of do some housekeeping here.

I'm sure plenty of people as they started their new year also did housekeeping at their house

like we did. It was a big part of our New Year celebration is getting things back in order. So that's what I thought

we would do for the podcast a little bit. So I'm going to start where you don't want to start. Can we do that? Like exactly where you don't want to start.

Let's do it, yes. I want to start with those three Supreme Court arguments that we didn't get to that we

said we're just going gonna really mostly focus on when the decisions actually come out but let's spend just a few minutes on the oral arguments here at the top, okay? We're not going to do a ton of time on this.

So, SEC v Jarkasy, and I made fun of the chief because he pronounced it,

Jarkuzi and was corrected by one of the advocates, which was a fun little moment.

I don't know if I recommend that for your oral advocacy, unless you're Lisa Blat, like, don't do a lot of things.

But it did help us because now we know how to pronounce the case. So this is a guy who basically gets crosswise with the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission.

And if that happens, the SEC, and I'm going to use this sort of broadly and please all you

SEC lawyers out there, do not write to me about the specifics of how this actually works, but

basically the SEC has prosecutors and they bring you before an SEC judge who's

called an administrative law judge in ALJ. That judge is hired by the SEC.

And so the prosecutor and the judge

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