You ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger and we have a special guest.

A special guest who's going to help us talk through the Supreme Court term.

A momentous term and we've heard a lot about that term from us and you're not done yet.

But we're adding a new voice who's going to sanity check us to see if our analysis has been right.

And I think you're going to really like this podcast.

We're not only going to talk through the term, we're also going to answer some reader mail about how the Supreme Court works.

Some of it is like Supreme Court 101, but some of it is like Supreme Court 301 and perhaps even 401.

So Sarah, do you want to introduce our guest?

Absolutely. Professor Josh Blackman and I have known each other since law school, right?

Been a while.

Yeah, we used to meet up at Federalist Society National Conventions once a year, the student conferences.

And now you are such a big deal and you are a law professor who actually teaches the next generation inculcates them into the dark arts.

You're at South Texas College of Law in Houston.

You teach Con Law, intersection of law and technology.

And you write so much about the Supreme Court and you're funny and smart about it.

And so we had to have you on to do our term wrap up.

Well, you are two kinds, Sarah. It's good to be with you and good to be with you David as well.

So I want to start with this, a colleague of yours, Chris Walker, who's at the Ohio State University.

He described this term as quote, this has been such an unusual and important term at the Supreme Court and Chief Justice Roberts has been at the center of it.

So there's three points there that it's unusual that it was important and that the chief has been at the center.

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