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Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And David, this might be one of our grimmer podcasts that we've ever done. Our lineup today is not happy, friendly fun time. No, it's not. In fact, when you put the lineup in Slack, Adam said, this is grim.

So we're going to do a little SCOTUS updating. We're going to talk about threats to the judiciary, internal and external.

We're going to talk about the takeover the Harvard Federalist Society chapter by common good constitutionalists.

And then look, at the very end,

we kind of have some fun update on the SCOTUS lottery for seating and how that's going. So

stay to the end if you want to smile a little, I guess. All right, David, let's start at the top.

SCOTUS update next week. We have another round of oral arguments. This will be the second to last

oral argument sitting of this term oral arguments. This will be the second to last oral argument sitting

of this term. Some cases that we'll be looking at racial gerrymandering, non-delegation doctrine,

reverse free exercise where the charities in question want to be considered religious institutions

to get a special tax-exempt status because they're religious. I don't know what you want

to call those, like B cases. Yeah, we don't have a huge number of A cases that we're waiting on for

this term. And that's pretty normal. We normally have a hot term and then followed by a cold term.

It's not that they try to do that necessarily. It's just sort of the way it tends to work out.

And this is definitely the cold term.

You know, it's interesting two years ago,

this would be a volcanically hot term based on the trans care case in Tennessee alone.

That would be, I mean, people would already be lining up outside the court to talk, you know, to protest that.

But it is remarkable how the political salience of that issue has changed to the point where

very few people are talking about it or even appear to be anticipating it. And that was sort of the

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