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I was born ready.

Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And David, we took an extra 24 hours because, frankly, we have two hats. We have our sort of political pundity hat. And this, our legal hat, our most joyful flagship podcast hat. And we just wanted to give it a tap-taperoo.

Yes.

But this will be our post-election episode.

We're not going to talk about Supreme Court oral arguments.

We're not going to talk about circuit court cases.

We're just going to talk about the effect of this election on the legal system.

Yeah.

So let's start with the most micro part of this, which are Trump's civil and criminal cases.

Yes.

So, for instance, in theory, in the New York case that he was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying

business records.

That sentencing was delayed until after the election.

It is now set for next week, basically, end of this month.

We also have the classified documents case, which was dismissed, but that was being appealed,

and the January 6th federal case.

Talk about those as well. And then, of course, the Georgia state case.

So, David, the federal cases are really easy. Yeah, this is easy. They're going away.

They're gone for any number of reasons. I think that a bunch of reporters sort of were hoping for

some massive clash on the federal cases that Trump would have to come in and fire Jack Smith and they'd have to dismiss these cases.

DOJ is going to follow DOJ policy, which has been in place since Nixon.

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