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Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. I'm David Frinch with Sarah Izger and we have

too much to cover, too much. So we're going to get a start on it today and we're going

to finish some of it on Monday. So if you've tuned in to hear about Trump's legal problems

and that's the only reason you've tuned into advisory opinions, this is not your podcast

today. But get ready for next early next week for Tuesday morning. That is your time.

But if you're fascinated and interested in the Supreme Court, if you're interested

in Biden's student loan forgiveness program and a looming legal challenge or a filed

legal challenge or if you're interested in a fascinating case from the second circuit

that has a lot of ramifications for free speech generally and specifically for some controversies

around big tech. This is the podcast for you. So Sarah, do you want to kick us off with

some scotus updates, developments?

Well, we are taping this on Wednesday and it's long conference day. Very exciting. So

the Supreme Court justices are together for the first time since the term ended Wednesday,

September 28th. Yes, oral arguments won't start until next week, but they all get in

the conference room. Basically all day, it's called long conference for a reason. It's

long because they have to get through all of the cert petitions that came in over the

summer. The clerks turn over in July. So we have a new set of clerks. It's been busy,

busy reviewing these thousands of petitions, making their recommendations. So I thought

we just discussed a little bit about how that works. So during the regular season, if

you will, David, the term, cert petitions come in and they more or less get reviewed

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