Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here, the second hour of the program. Six after the hour. Let's get going. The phone number, if you want to be on the show, it is Friday. So we're looser with the calls. You could call in and help set the agenda. It is 877-97-9-73-7-4-25. If you're listening, just as a matter of housekeeping, I'm trying to be polite here,

on a Cox Media Group station. My flagship station, WSP, is owned by Cox, and their normal host

for the midday show is under the weather mark K. He will be back. I don't know if you're

getting me twice today or not. Usually I'm in delay on those stations. Nonetheless, I'm here now and we must discuss a lot.

But it's also Friday and, you know, we've all got that crud in the south here,

at least from the weather changing so rapidly.

So I'm totally willing to let you guys do some of the talking today just because I can

feel my voice just my

gosh I'm like the only well person in the house and I'm the one with a concussion so nonetheless

I'm going to start this hour with Arthur who has been waiting patiently Arthur welcome

hey how are you I'm good how are you so I'm I'm good I'm outside hiking and it's beautiful day, by the way. So here's my question.

You mentioned that Sotomayor is misinformed on whether unvaccinated people or vaccinated people

can get Omicron. So a couple of weeks ago, you were talking about Biden's chief of staff

and how he really does all the work and pulls together briefing documents

and makes recommendations and all that.

So I'm wondering, is it the same way with the Supreme Court justices

that they just have this big staff of support lawyers

pulling stuff together for them and she just reads what she wants to read.

Yeah, look, that could be it.

They all have law clerks, and the law clerks help them prepare for oral arguments.

They do the deep dives.

They do the briefings.

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