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I was born ready.

Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And we are going to start by telling you that the birthright citizenship oral argument will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. We'll give you a little birthright amuse, if you will, as we start out this podcast. The three questions the court will be considering

and what David and I are most looking at to determine what exactly the vote is on this case.

And drum roll, please. We have brought your treat, a present wrapped up in a nice little

bow. The 55th governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, is here to

thank you all for donating to the Supreme Court Historical Society. And I can't even begin to

describe where this conversation is going to end up. Has he ever been held in contempt of court?

Did he really tell Bob Mueller? Well, that's what gets you the explicit rating in this podcast, I guess. It's short, though. It's a short explicit rating. Does he think that Ford should have pardoned Nixon? And what exactly was he doing at John Ashcroft's house that Christmas? All this and more on advisory opinions. Oh, and don't worry, he weighs in on whether you should go to law school.

Well, David, we have to do this before we can get to the governor, and that is the birthright citizenship oral argument is Wednesday morning. We will be live blogging on SCOTUS blog. We will have a live

advisory opinion with special guests. I mean, not only you, my always special guest,

but Berkeley Law Professor Amanda Tyler, who wrote one of the amicus briefs. A brilliant

amicus brief, by the way. It was really good. Really smart. Professor Akeel Amar, of course, from our AO extended universe, who will be

attending the oral argument, and he will be being interviewed by our own Amy Howe outside the

court when they leave. So it'll be a very special advisory opinions that will stream live on

Scotus blog after the oral argument or of course you can listen to it as a regular podcast.

And if you tune in to C-SPAN for the oral argument, you will also be surrounded by Scotus blog

because they are including our live blog in their show as well. David, we have a new

explainer video. If you remember that last video that we did from briefly, they make legal

training content that people actually want to watch. So they combine the skills of top lawyers

like Scotus blog and yours truly for the voiceover with animators,

illustrators, and writers to turn dense legal topics like the birthright citizenship argument

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