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I was born ready.

Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. We're going to start with clashes with the Supreme Court, with the American people, with the justices, and with the president. Then we've got an oral argument and a decision to talk about that fifth amendment takings clause

case that I've been so pumped about. It is finally the day. As well as the confrontation

clause case that we talked about after oral argument, do you have a right to confer with your

attorney in the middle of testifying on the witness stand as the defendant?

And lastly, fun and appellate law, Lisa Blatt, Adderblattiest, and marmits.

Are they effective in self-defense?

All this and more on advisory opinions.

All right, David, before we get to our court clashes, this is my last pitch for the Supreme

Court Historical Society's hometown program.

We've gotten some questions that I wanted to answer.

So basically, when you order Last Branch Standing, or any other book, for that matter, from Amazon,

Barnes & Noble, Walmart, pick your place, and you, you know, buy the book, an order goes immediately

to the publisher. And that publisher then sends me the updates of how many people have bought the book.

So, nope, you don't have to do anything to make your donation,

so to speak, to the hometown program because I get weekly updates of what the book order

numbers are. And so however many books are ordered during this two-week period, that's how

much we're donating, times 30, to the Supreme Court Historical Society's hometown program

for these high school students. If we hit 7,500, Chris Christie comes on. If we do more than

7,500, that's great. The Supreme Court Historical Society's hometown program gets even more money.

So we're not quite to our goal yet. We're really excited,

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