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I was born ready. Welcome to advisory opinions.

I'm Sarah Isger with special guest David French and we're going to do a lot on this pod a lot of

Q&A a lot of pot a lot of potpourri and David we're going to start with the most important

question and one I've gotten twice already this week,

why are you special guest David French?

Well, if you know the history, the lore of advisory opinions, we began the show with me as the main host of the show and then when I moved to the New York Times, you became the main host of the show and I became not the main host of the show so it's

really kind of simple. So the joke is that you're not the co-host which you

basically are but you were in fact only here at my pleasure.

You serve the pleasure of the host.

Yes, exactly, exactly. So that's the joke, and that's why we say it all the time.

All right, next up a little bit of law catch up here.

Interesting Fifth Circuit opinion that in and of itself,

we probably wouldn't talk about,

but because it comes on the heels of that Supreme Court

argument on First Amendment retaliation arrests, worth a couple minutes of our time.

It was a dissental, meaning the Fifth Circuit decided not to take the case on Bonk,

but there were quite a few judges on the Fifth Circuit who wanted to take it on Bonk.

David, thoughts, feelings?

Yeah, this is an interesting case because it's related to a couple of other cases, and this came to us us and it's not a brand new case it's an older case it's

from last August that we missed but became suddenly more relevant because of the conversation that we had about the Gonzales case.

Now this is the case if you guys remember where a person was a older person who decided to run for public office as a,

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