Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger. And we're

going to cover a number of things today. We talked a little bit last podcast about this

really interesting case involving project veritas, James O'Keefe, what looks to all the

world like a prior restraint imposed on the New York Times to prevent them from publishing

some privileged documents they had obtained from veritas or they obtained not necessarily

from veritas, but privileged documents that of veritas is that they obtained from somewhere

that they are currently blocked from publishing or talking about. Very, very interesting.

We're also going to answer a really interesting reader mail question about the phrase life

and limb in the Constitution. And maybe Sarah will be able to answer a question that I have

is was there a lot of where there are a lot of punishments back in the day where limbs

were locked off in the colonial era. And then we're going to wind up with more discussion

of self-defense, not just maybe revisiting some of your angry comments about in the

written house case, but also talk about it in the context of a Texas case that has been

burning up social media over the last several days. Actually, triggered a day long conversation

with some of my friends involved a shooting and a domestic dispute that was all caught

on camera. We'll talk about it and I think we'll probably put a link to the video in

the show notes that I just want to warn everybody and very explicitly. It's not a bloody video,

but it's a very awful and sad video. So you don't have to watch it, but we're going

to talk about it because it hits on about every sort of self-defense controversy you

can imagine in one 90-second span of time. But Sarah, first, you're puzzled. I'm puzzled

about this James O'Keefe project Veritas prior restraint case. What the heck?

So I'm pretty into prior restraint law and previous to this whole thing had sort of

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