You ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David Trinch with Sarah Izger.

And we are because of coronavirus concerns located in multiple different places.

Our producer is in DC. Sarah is in, are you in Virginia, Sarah?

I am in Virginia and to make sure that the sound is good, I am also under the covers of my bed.

So it's like real self-quarantining now.

And also if you hear cats meowing, they are concerned about me being under the covers of my bed.

So you're not supposed to tell everyone how the sausage is made.

It's for bad sausage today.

But I guess we believe in radical transparency here at the dispatch.

So we're, we've got a lot to talk about today.

We're going to briefly touch on the Biden Sanders debate.

And then we are really going to dive in to the law of quarantines, to the ability of governors to ban large gatherings, to all of the legal issues that are raised by this massive state intervention.

Into our association, our freedom of association into our economy.

We have been getting a ton of questions along those lines.

So we're going to go into everything from enumerated powers to police power, to regulatory takings, to quarantines, and even to martial law.

Now correctly spelled martial law, M-A-R-T-I-A-L.

But I believe it was Marco Rubio today who introduced a new concept of martial law, M-A-R-S-H-A-L-L law, which is an underdeveloped area of the constitutional jurisprudence.

You know what? I'm the last person to make fun of someone for spelling mistakes.

Yes, I know. That's a cheap shot. I'm so sorry, Senator. But it was funny.

But let's just start, let's start very briefly with the debate.

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