Ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And we are going to start with the decision out of Virginia striking down Virginia's new congressional maps. What the what? The Virginia Supreme Court refusing to rule on this until the election had been held and now saying that the ballot

measure was never constitutionally processed under the Virginia Supreme Court. What is to come

of this? They've said they're appealing to the United States Supreme Court. Does David think

that is going anywhere? Second, we've got a TED talk. Yes,

former acting solicitor General Neil Katyal recorded a TED talk about winning the tariff case.

And look, I don't want to talk about it on this podcast, but we have to talk about it on this podcast,

and I think it illuminates quite a bit about oral arguments and, frankly, how the Supreme Court

cert petition process works that would cause one member of the Supreme Court bar to say that

Neil Katyal just announced his retirement in the form of a TED Talk. And lastly, David,

what might be the best AP government teacher in America is best I can tell, put together 56

Would You Rather's on the eve of the AP government exam. Let's see how you do. All this and more

on advisory opinions.

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Well, David, I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day with your family. In my family,

we were on day three of potty training, the two-year-old. And there was just poop everywhere, David.

There was poop on me. There was poop on him. But at one point, I will tell you, there was poop in the little potty. And while that may not sound exciting to those of you who have not done this, there's no better Mother's Day present I've ever been given than poop in that little potty. And to be clear, little potties are not hooked up to plumbing. So I still had to clean poop from the little potty. But it's symbolic, David. That's the point.

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