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Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger and that's David French. Oh, and look, it's David Latteau, joining our end of year extravaganza, where we will talk federalist society reporting ethics complaints, Justice Jackson, appearing on Broadway and everything in between. But first, we have breaking news out of the Supreme Court,

and David French, you and I were just wrong about this one. The Supreme Court has treated the

application for a stay trying to prevent the TikTok ban from going into effect on January 19th. They have treated it as a petition

for certiorari and they have agreed to hear the case on an expedited schedule. This is similar

to what they did for the vaccine mandate case around COVID. Honestly, I'm sort of kicking myself

for not seeing this one coming. Because the law goes into effect January 19th, we talked about the fact that once the law

went into a fact, it would be very hard for them to hear this after.

So they are going to hear argument on January 10th.

We're going to have our work cut out for us.

But not as much as the work that these

lawyers now have. Because the first brief will be due December 27th. I'm so sorry to Noel Francisco

and his team over at Jones Day, who just had their Christmases canceled. But not to worry,

because the government will have their brief due January 3rd, so no late night New Year celebrations

for them. And all you amici out there that have opinions, no Christmas, December 27th deadline

for you as well. Set for oral

argument. That's a Friday, January 10th. So I don't know, David, we might have an emergency

podcast that evening. You know, there's so many questions in this case, the first of which is

whether David Lat, this even implicates the First Amendment. Yep. No, exactly. That was an issue that surfaced at the D.C. Circuit.

Yeah. And, you know, I think the, it's really going to depend on the framing here. Is this,

is this a law aimed at a foreign-owned hostile power, I mean, a foreign-owned company owned by a hostile power that is vacuuming up American's

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