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dot com and secure your seats today ready i was born ready Welcome to a special emergency episode of advisory opinions.

I'm Sarah Isgar. That's David French.

This is the TikTok oral argument case. So David, right off the bat, how are you feeling after listening to that?

A lot less confident that the Supreme Court is going to uphold the D.C. Circuit than I thought going in.

No question about that.

It was the questioning of the Solicitor General prelogger was pretty intense.

I thought the advocates for TikTok and the creators did a really, really good job because what they did not do is really contest China's

control or China's malignancy, shall we say. They contested the means, the way in which Congress

did this. So I'm much less confident this is coming out against TikTok than I was before.

What about you, Sarah?

Way less confident, but I want to break the potential decision tree into four different areas

because the problem with any oral argument is you're trying to count to five.

And oftentimes by the time a case gets to the Supreme Court, you know, maybe we're like,

well, standing. But if they find standing, then we're moving on to the merits. You know,

there are sometimes these decision trees. But oftentimes it's like a yes or no and we're just

trying to count to five on a single question.

And that's usually not that hard coming out of a moral argument.

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