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I was born ready. Welcome to Advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger, that's David French, and yep, we got four Supreme Court decisions on

Thursday morning. We are expecting more on Friday morning where we will do another podcast.

Look, are these four the most exciting for Supreme Court decisions ever to come down?

No, they're not. But are there interesting tidbits that will make a podcast?

One way or another another yes they are so David I thought we'd

start with the 16th Amendment case this is the Moore case and you know like

Julie Andrews taught us let's start at the very beginning.

The 16th Amendment says, the Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on

incomes from whatever source derived without apportionment

among the several states and without regard to any census or enumeration.

And I'll tell you what I love about this Moore decision which was

written by Justice Kavanaugh with a Jackson concurrence, a Barrett concurrence joined by Alito, and a dissent by Justice Thomas joined by Justice Gorsuch.

So it was 7-2 of a sort, is not so much the outcome of this case, but actually just

learning a lot about the history of the 16th Amendment. I feel smarter for having read all this. So I thought

I'd give listeners just a little tidbit of some of the fun 16th

amendment history. So of course we get this great history from Justice Thomas and his dissent and it's going to start with the Declaration of Independence, right?

Because taxes are a big part of the reason why we declared independence taxation without representation, right? then we have the Declaration of Independence,

we win that war, then we have the Articles of Confederation

where basically the federal government has zero actual ability to raise taxes from people. They can like ask the

states nicely for money. Turns out that wasn't working too well. The states were

like new phone who discs, we'll get to it later, the checks in the mail.

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