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Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Izker.

And we've got a lot of fun law to talk about today.

So we have a Supreme Court decision. One of the first important decisions from the October term.

Now just to let you know, this is going to be the first of a series of podcasts.

They're going to be talking about a series of interesting Supreme Court decisions, including some really explosive ones that are due in the next coming weeks and months.

But this one is very interesting. It's called Ramos, V Louisiana. And it's about the, is it necessary to have a unanimous jury verdict before you send someone away for serious time?

So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upholding a new Michigan redistricting plan.

Why that's important. And it is very important. We're going to talk about Roger Stone being denied a new trial, mainly to tell you that we were right.

And then we're going to wade into the Chernobyl that was the comment section on my Sunday newsletter about why Republicans had asserted that evangelical Republicans have dropped the character test.

Now they're dropping the competence test. But to give you a flavor, a little, a little bit of sense of what it's like to correspond with Sarah Isker on Slack.

I just want to, she, she sent around the, and we were talking about what we're going to talk about today. She sent around the Ramos news. And then the exact quote was, I believe Sarah,

she and I is showing a little ankle here.

Yeah.

Do you want to tell people about Ramos and what you mean?

Little ankle of the privileges and immunities clause. Nana, Nana.

Yeah. So Caleb, our producer is laughing in a way that like your teenager laughs when mom tries to say something remotely, like cool. And he's like, nope.

Noted Caleb noted. So Louisiana and Oregon do not require unanimous juries.

And Ramos was convicted by a non unanimous jury. This has gone up to the Supreme Court.

We end up with, I don't know, like kind of a disaster opinion.

Like everyone is everywhere. So, and there's some asterisk involved in this. It's roughly a six three opinion with gorsuch, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kavanaugh joining in parts.

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