Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger and a special

Dobs edition Dobs oral argument edition of advisory opinions. We've been bombarded with

emails Sarah saying where's the emergency pod? But truth be told that would not be very

dispatched. You know, at the dispatch we got a chew on it for a minute, think about it for

a minute. So consider this the non-emergency pod, but really the beginning of the analysis.

But before we get to it, before we get to it, Sarah, husband of the pod, Scott just

won a big victory against a dumb Texas law. That's true. That's true. So the Texas social

media bill that was quite similar to the Florida one that we've talked about before that

was in short trying to ban any social media from the state that discriminated against

conservative viewpoints, which is clearly content based. Scott, husband of the pod represented

the trade association for the social media companies and won that injunction in Texas.

So got to get that, you know, when we get close to the pod victories, we got to acknowledge

them. I would say the argument was on the Monday after Thanksgiving, which made our Thanksgiving

probably quite different from other people's.

Well, so let's, I know I just wanted to acknowledge that. Give a tip of the cap, give a tip

of the cap to Scott, but let's move on to Dobbs. So oral argument yesterday, there has

been an enormous amount of commentary surrounding the oral argument. We're going to add to it

and we're going to do it in this structure. So what we're going to do first is Sarah's

going to tell you what's going to happen next. So what are the steps from here at the

court? I'm going to throw in a little bit of historical perspective there. Then we're

going to go to general impressions of the argument and then we're going to go to specific

moments. So we're going to actually have a real structure here. So Sarah, the argument,

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