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Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger. And we're going to cover a few things today.

We're going to start with a really disturbing incident outside of Justice Kavanaugh's home. We're going to talk about a Supreme Court decision that was handed down today that's actually kind of interesting.

It's not one of the biggies, not one of the biggies, but it's kind of interesting.

And then we've got a lot of follow up from our last podcast and a lot of reader questions to cover.

But let's start with the Kavanaugh news, Sarah. So here's, I'll just start with a first couple of paragraphs of the Washington Post story.

A California man carrying at least one weapon your Brett Kavanaugh's Maryland home has been taken into custody by police after telling officers he wanted to kill the Supreme Court justice.

According to people familiar with the investigation, the man described as being in his mid 20s was found to be carrying at least one weapon and burglary tools.

These people said speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation.

Please were notified the person might pose a threat to the justice, but it was not immediately clear who provided the initial tip.

The man apparently did not make it onto Kavanaugh's property was stopped on a nearby street.

Okay, so this is scary stuff, Sarah. And by the way, he was stopped. He was arrested at 130 in the morning.

This was not 3 p.m. in the afternoon. This was to me, you know, you these things happen from time to time where like someone is arrested in California for making threats against a member of Congress or something like that.

This was, you know, yards away 130 in the morning and he has all the tools he needs. God bless the person who called in the tip.

Yeah, absolutely. And I'm going to say this with feeling.

This is why you don't dox people. This is why you don't make their homes publicly known. This is why you don't go outside their homes.

You don't radiate in broadcast where people live. This is why you don't stoke up hateful rhetoric against public officials.

Enough, enough. I mean, you know, we've already seen political violence in this country. We had a very disturbing incident in Wisconsin where a retired judge was assassinated in his assassin had a kill list that had other public officials on it.

We're in a dark place right now. And Sarah, I did a debate on the New York Times argument podcast about protest.

And this was exactly the point that I made. I said, once you start broadcasting people's homes and once you start, once you want you declare that homes aren't off limits.

It's not even necessarily the sort of angry, peaceful protesters, although they're inflicting a cost on neighbors and kids and spouses and all of that.

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