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Welcome to the Advisory Opinion Podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isker and Sarah

Today's podcast, we've got a really fascinating Supreme Court case to talk about. We're going

to give a FedSoc update, a very quick hit on some Supreme Court cases that we're really

going to pay more attention to when the opinion comes out. And oh my, oh my, a gun case

out of Texas. I don't even want to say any more than that because.

I'm making David put this at the end because it is his dessert. And if we put it at the

beginning, he would only eat dessert at this meal.

It's, it's, oh my, that's all I'm going to say. That's all I'm going to say. But let's

start, let's start with FedSoc. Sarah, you were at the FedSoc dinner, thoughts, observations,

any comments on it. And I've got one, I've got something to say in defensive Amy Coney Barrett

after, after. So this was the national conference, the yearly national conference held just after

the election this year, which is unusual. Normally, it's kind of the week after. And high attendance,

not surprising. At the dinner on Thursday night, which is held at Union Station, there were

four justices, justices, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, all in attendance.

The actual program was a little dot, dot, dot, strange. May I just suggest that having like David Lat,

MC the dinner might make some sense in future years. It was sort of a hodgepodge. It was the 40th

anniversary of the Federalist Society, which is fun, David, because the Federalist Society and I

are the same age in our birthdays are the same time. The Federalist Society is younger than me.

1982, my friend. So they did some like history, some reminiscing, and then justice, Alito stood up

and did sort of an impromptu story about a time he remembered running into Charles Fried, the Harvard

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