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Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And boy, have we got a podcast for you today?

Two hot oral arguments at the Supreme Court. One, on when ballots can be received after the election.

And two, metering at the southern border as well as a qualified immunity decision. Oh, and yes,

if I sound a little weird, I am in the beautiful state of Utah, and I am loving it.

Okay, David, I have to tell you, I am in Provo, Utah, and I may never leave. I may just send for my

family and have them come here. I went to the Tommy's Burger, like, stand last night. It was

incredible. The mountains. It just, this is like the best of America. I have been to Provo as well,

and it is, it's tough to leave. It's tough to leave. I've got to say. And then I did a really fun

thing of drive from Provo to Aspen, which was a beautiful, I mean, I mean to tell you, Sarah, that is a drive to take. It's that part of the

country, you just don't want to leave it. Well, we've got lots of Supreme Court stuff to talk about.

I guess we should just go in order. Should we start with Watson, the ballot case? So this was argued on Monday of this week. The question is whether

federal Election Day statutes preempt Mississippi's law that allows ballots that are cast by Election Day to be received up to five days after

election day. David, I guess right off the bat, I found myself in the end thinking I didn't

care much about this case. So we have basically all nine justices agree that the text of the federal statute

doesn't really speak to this one way or the other. I'll read it in a little bit, but like basically

we don't really have text. And the Republican Party of Mississippi and the Solicitor General's

office of the United States argue that,

nevertheless, Congress preempted state law about this question and that Election Day must be

consummated, as Paul Clement, the word he used, consummated on the day of the election. So it's not just about casting your ballot on

election day, which everyone agrees you must do that by election day, but that the ballot must be

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