Welcome to the Dispatch podcast. I'm Sarah Isger. No wait, that's the wrong script. Hi, welcome to the Dispatch podcast

I'm Jonah Goldberg and I am subbing for Sarah Isger because apparently if you listen to the latest episode of advisory opinions

You'd know this she sounds a bit like Wolfman Jack with the play and so we thought Caleb called a rare

indulgence and and and Vito and said she was not permitted to be on this podcast and Steve Hayes is off eating cheese curd somewhere

So it is it's the dream team. It is me

David French and one Andrew Egger

From this place called the Dispatch and so today we're gonna talk about a bunch of different stuff. We're gonna start with the Supreme Court

Confirmation hearings. They're going to go back to Ukraine and Russia and then a bit of political popery

Originally we were just gonna talk about moe Brooks and Trump's endorsement problems and all of that

But then the late late yesterday the Ginny Thomas

Text messages with Mark Meadows story broke so we're gonna dive into that too

Speaking of diving let's dive right in David you are

For once we only have one lawyer on this podcast

You are our legal beagle

What are your big takeaways from the the confirmation thing in my body?

Yeah, I have a couple and you know one of them we talked about at length on advisory opinions which was

What is what was the sort of substance of the

What were the merits of the substantive attack on judge Jackson and the substantive attack of on judge Jackson

Really heavily focused on her role in sentencing in child pornography cases and

We dove into that and in some real detail. I'm not gonna repeat a half hour or 40 minute segment of a podcast

But what there really wasn't much there there to it her sentencing was generally right within the range of sentences recommended by

The probation office and then there was something a little bit disingenuous about the whole line of attack

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