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I was born ready.

Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast Emergency Edition.

This is David French with Sarah Isger and oh my goodness Sarah.

At about 730 Central Time, 830 Your Time, that mushroom cloud I saw in my living room was what was left of my phone.

Yeah, so can I tell you something David and I was texting you right but I was at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia for the dedication of the first amendment engraving that used to be like a 50 foot one that used to be outside the museum.

They have established it inside the National Constitution Center so I went up with that to hear judge Ludig speak Jeff Rosen.

It was fantastic.

I was texting you about how excited I was to talk to you about the free speech conversation on Thursday.

And so I was in my car driving.

I know I was texting you wondering why aren't you texting me back.

This is important stuff Sarah.

Yeah, no, instead I'm not texting drive.

I called husband of the pod and was like start reading, start telling me things, you know, and then I was going 80 down 95.

Okay, so David, we're going to divide this up into three parts.

Yes.

The leak, the substance, the politics.

You're correct.

Now pre-leak, you know, when this came out, obviously the first thing that anyone wants to know is was it real.

I don't know the chief justice has confirmed it's real, but I do think it's also worth noting why you and I knew it was real last night.

The formatting that the Supreme Court uses is very unique, very specific, would be very difficult to redo if you didn't at one point work at the court relatively recently.

And so that's what I was going to do.

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