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Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Izger.

I'm just going to go ahead and begin my Deering the Russian Ukraine War qualification that I'm going to make at the start of every Advisory Opinions Podcast.

If there are issues that arise within the Ambit of the Podcast, which very well may be, and in fact, you know, there might be some very interesting international law issues arising in the coming days as EU exerts itself

as economic sanctions start to bite as the war continues and is expanding and might be expanding into indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas.

We're going to cover international law. We're going to cover legal aspects of that.

But as of right now, if you're wanting a Ukraine coverage, I cannot recommend more highly the coverage we're doing on the Dispatch.com homepage.

I cannot recommend highly enough the coverage we're doing on our main Dispatch podcast on our Dispatch lives.

Sarah, I don't think we have a hole in the Dispatch repertoire when it comes to Ukraine coverage.

We do not.

We do not. So with that as a caveat, let's move on to non-Ukraine developments.

And there are. And there are in the legal world. And they're important. We had a significant district court opinion on admissions to an elite Virginia public school that has bearing.

I'm not going to say it's going to influence the Supreme Court at all. The Supreme Court is going to do what the Supreme Court is going to do.

But it is adjacent to the Harvard admissions case. And it is very, very much worth taking a look at.

We also have a case that we're going to look at where that might be, would you say the most controversial decision that Kintangi Brown Jackson is going to have to deal with in her confirmation hearing or among them?

Certainly among them. I think it's the most, but let's set expectations kind of low here. It might be the most controversial, but it's a little like the Gorsuch cold trucker case, not a lot of your hat on it a lot of ways.

Which if if you are a listener who remembers the Gorsuch cold trucker case.

No, but except the guy with rule 22.4 tattooed on his exactly exactly or I'm going to say we're going to get at least five commenters who will say I remember Gorsuch cold trucker case.

Okay.

We're also going to talk.

Jenny Thomas and con alleged conflicts of interest. There have been a couple of stories one in the New Yorker one in the New York Times Sunday magazine about Jenny Thomas's involvement in conservative and right wing causes and whether what we should think about it or whether we should think about it at all, which is going to be.

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