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

We have so many topics to cover today that I had to pull up the list just to make sure that I didn't miss any.

So listeners, this is the lineup. It's action packed. We're going to talk Michael Cohen and why you should not get your assessments of court cases from Twitter.

We're going to talk about Trump's alleged Portland stormtroopers. We're going to talk about joy reads alleged defamation MSNBC host joy reads alleged defamation. We're going to talk about immigration in the United States census and why Sarah is completely wrong about the best the best television legal television show in history.

I just want you to guess right now what David is going to say is the best legal television series. Just just have that in the back of your head because it will not surprise you. It will be exactly what you think it is.

Sorry, David. What were you saying?

No, no, you're you're you're messing up the flow here.

It is Cohen Portland read immigration and you're wrong. Okay, so that's the flow.

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Hey, David. Yes. Before we start, we had some SCOTUS 101 questions from the last segment with Amy Howe, our wonderful guest from SCOTUS blog that we didn't get to.

And so I had Amy send me the her answers. Could we do a quick SCOTUS 101 up front here? Please.

Okay, this came from a listener. These questions and we've we've got five quick ones.

How does the court decide what cases they will take? Why and why not answer from Amy. The justice usually look for a cases in which the lower courts have reached different conclusions on the same legal issue.

For example, the meaning of a particular provision of federal law. That's called a circuit split.

And like this is a great way to get Supreme Court cases, lawyers like my husband who is upstairs, often will just scan for circuits splits to see what's going on.

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