You ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And we promised you something special, something nerdy. And I think you will agree that we're about to deliver in big, big ways.

For any of you who have ever met, Judge Charles Eskridge, we're going to hit PKO today. And I'll tell you why it's because he has just written.

I don't actually even know quite how many pages it is. Many, many pages about the two bronze doors that are in the front of the Supreme Court.

So we're going to just talk about two doors for as long as we possibly can. It is really interesting. But I'll tell you, he also runs a class.

He used to be a professor at Pepperdine University, still teaches and his class is fascinating one. It's on the origins of the federal constitution. So we may get to that.

But frankly, when the origins of the federal constitution are the less nerdy topic, that's really telling you something about where we've come David in our journey.

You know, it really is. I mean, we're reaching new heights. And I have to confess when I initially received my reading assignment of reading about the bronze doors.

56 pages. I just looked up exactly the page count.

My PDF only says, well, that's right. Because with the end notes, 56. Yeah. So we're going to spend most of the time in the end notes.

Yes, of course.

So when I received my writing assignment, I mean, reading assignment, I thought, I could see that in a thousand words, you know, I could see that not quarter book length.

And then, and then I started reading and I couldn't stop.

You can't put it down. It's a page turner. I had the exact same experience once you're in it. You're in it.

Yeah, absolutely. So I'm excited about this discussion. It's a walk through history of English and American law.

Well, not English and American Greek, Roman, English, American. I mean, it's really something else. But before we dive in, we got to more properly introduce our guests.

Okay. Judge Charles Eskridge is a federal district judge in the southern district of Texas. He served as a law clerk to justice white during the October 1991 term. I have no idea why he wanted to age himself so specifically.

In his own footnotes here. But he is just well known throughout, I mean, not just Texas, but very well known in Texas. He was an incredible practicing trial attorney in Texas, a professor of Pepperdine University.

And he's bringing all of those skills, the practice, the academia, the judging all into these two bronze doors judge. Welcome to the podcast.

Thank you very much. I'm so glad to be here. And I will devote the balance of the hour trying to live up to what has just been said about the bronze doors.

It's incredible. Okay. We have to start from the beginning. How did you get this idea?

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