You ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isker and you might notice.

You might notice this is not an emergency podcast.

This is a regularly scheduled podcast recorded the day after Justice Breyer announced his retirement.

Now ordinarily, well, maybe not ordinarily, but in many circumstances, the announcement of a retirement of a Supreme Court Justice would be indeed cause for a let's drop everything emergency pod.

So I could imagine Sarah, if Clarence Thomas had retired, we would still be podcasting from the emergency pod that we began maybe five PM yesterday.

Disagree when Ruth Vader Ginsburg's passing was announced on a Friday night, we did not do an emergency pod.

We waited till Monday.

And there was no higher stakes.

That is true.

That is true.

We wanted to let it marinate in our own hearts.

Okay.

That is true. I retract.

I retract. We would just wait.

But what I was going to say was, I am extremely, of course, and of course, this podcast as an institution and all the individuals within it are extremely interested in Breyer's retirement, the Breyer's replacement, the conversation around Breyer's retirement and Breyer's retirement.

Breyer's replacement, we're going to dive into all of that.

But in all honesty, this might be one of the lowest stakes Supreme Court nomination fights.

That we've been through in some time.

You don't have to balance the power of the court at stake.

You have a Democratic president, nominally, democratically controlled Senate.

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