Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger and we've

got a lot, a lot. We're going to cover today not a lot of Supreme Court stuff. Well, you

know, we're going to debunk or convey the debunking of a Supreme Court conspiracy theory,

but lots of interesting stuff nonetheless. The fifth circuit has for the moment weighed

in again on the SBA the Texas abortion law. We're going to deal with the question of executive

privilege, President Trump in January 6th as the January 6th Commission subpoenas are going

out. We're going to talk about how Mother Jones, yes, you read that correctly. I mean, heard

that correctly. Mother Jones debunked a Kavanaugh conspiracy theory about his finances, just

as Kavanaugh, and then we're going to wind up with a crazy clemency story that I just

find fascinating, but let's start with the fifth circuit and Sarah, you were right and

you are wrong. You were right. Yes. Explain your rightness and wrongness.

So on Friday night, the fifth circuit in fact did stay that district judges stay of the

Texas law. So basically that district judge in Austin, if you remember, enjoyed the Texas

law going into effect or being in effect and simply said Texas, you figure out who you

need to enjoy, not my problem. A three judge panel, the fifth circuit on Friday night granted

their emergency administrative stay pending the court's consideration of the emergency

motion, which they will do tomorrow, Tuesday. So that's sort of interesting. So this is

a short term stay, which leaves the Texas law in effect over the weekend and currently.

So basically, the Texas law was not in effect for about two days last week, and it's back

into effect now. And then we will see you later this week. Interestingly, David, the

three judges on the panel were unanimous, and they are the in some ways three least likely

judges to be unanimous on the fifth circuit judges steward, Haynes and Ho. They are the

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