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I was born ready.

Welcome to the advisory opinion podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger and we're a little late.

We're a little late this week. I was traveling really. I spent a lot of time in Tulsa this week and

just a ton of time talking and learning, talking to folks and learning about the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 and it's aftermath.

And it was an intense week. I'm glad I did it. And I've got stuff to say and write about it in the future, Sarah.

But we're going to be, we've got a gosh, we got a bunch of stuff, including why your mother's day was ruined and then why your mother's day

was observed was ruined and what that means for America. And it does mean something for America.

So we're going to start with that. We've got some continued fallout from the draft dobs leak, including a more exploration of the

film. And we've got some reader or listener questions that we're going to get to. And then some philosophical stuff at the end, including questions about

ectopic pregnancies and questions about the whole concept of abortion as murder.

So let's start. Why Sarah is your mother's day celebration of national importance?

Well, I just feel like I don't get any holidays. I don't know what's going on here. So if you remember back at Christmas, the Supreme Court set for oral argument quite suddenly the vaccine mandate case.

And so that caused, you know, family lockdowns couldn't get COVID. And of course, obviously my husband was preparing for that oral argument pretty intensely fast forward.

The fifth circuit had set the Texas social media bill oral argument in New Orleans for the Monday, this past Monday, which is the day after mother's day, which meant that husband of the pod had to fly out pretty early in the morning on mother's day.

And so that's why mother's day is, you know, the date itself is made up. So don't care about what day we celebrated on. We decided to have mother's day observed on Wednesday.

So Scott got back from the argument. We had a nice little chitchat about it.

Gosh, you know, I clerked for I clerked on the fifth circuit, first of all, but also I clerked for one of the judges on the panel that he had.

And so that was the presiding judge of the panel. So I had a pretty good sense of how long it would take for an opinion to come out, you know, month, two months thereabouts.

And instead Wednesday night at 6 p.m. The divided panel.

And the old them. Leslie Southwick was the other judge in the panel who for reasons when we talk about the oral argument, I think we can assume was not was in the descent, although it actually didn't list which judges were which lifted the injunction on the Texas social media bill.

As of 6 p.m. on Wednesday, David, the Texas social media bill went into effect. And I don't think I'm letting any cats out of the bag by saying we did not have mother's day observed on Wednesday evening.

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