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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest, the Etch-Sketch edition for the week of March 23rd, 2012.

I am David Plotz, the editor of Slate, here in Washington, D.C. with my two favorite GabFesters.

I won't say which of you is my more favorite gab fester.

John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent, editor, political director of CBS News or something like that. Every week, David comes a little vaguer. No, I know, but I was, he threw, he got,

because you had to be an editor-editor editor titles, and your title are correspondent and director.

I want to be.

You can make me an editor, too.

And then the third leg of the equilateral triangle that is the GabFest, Emily Bazelon, down from New Haven, Slate Senior Editor.

Emily, so nice to have you here.

So nice to be here.

We are going to talk about three topics today.

We'll talk about the perennial topic one, the state of the GOP race.

Topic two will be the Trayvon Martin killing and what's come out of that.

Topic three will be the upcoming Supreme Court Affordable Care Act argument of next week. And then we will have

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