Mr Chief Justice,

Justice, may it please to court.

It's an old joke, but when I argue, man argues against two beautiful ladies like this,

they're going to have the last word.

She spoke not elegantly but with unmistakable clarity.

She said, I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our

next. Hello and welcome back to Strict Scutony your podcast about the Supreme Court and

the legal culture slash vibes that surrounds it. We're your host. I'm Melissa Murray.

I'm Leah Littman and I'm Kate Shaw and welcome to our term recap. We have had just a little time as in in about a day, to digest what we all just live through.

So we're going to ask you to bear with us as we try to process and work through some of this in real time,

with each other, and with all of you.

And we have done a lot of opinion analysis and critique

along the way.

So today we're mostly going to focus on the big slash high-level

themes about the term.

And if we have time at the end of the show show we will also turn to some roses and thorns.

So first mostly thorns.

Yeah. Exactly.

Exactly.

Spoiler alert.

Slim pickings for the roses, but we are going to try to find what we can even if it's a few

stray lines in Justice Kagan's bitch slash Slap of the Fifth Circuit.

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