Mr Chief Justice,

Justice, may it please report.

It's an old joke, but when I argue, man,

against two beautiful ladies like this,

they're going to have the land

work.

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. Hello.

Hello. Hello and

welcome back to strict scrutiny, your podcast about the Supreme Court and

the legal culture that surrounds it.

We're your hosts. I'm Melissa Murray and I'm Kate Shaw. And we are thrilled to be coming to you today live from the Howard Theater in

Washington DC. HU. So if you are here you know that June is always an especially busy and high stakes time

when it comes to the Supreme Court's calendar that is is always true, but it feels especially, almost agonizingly

true this year as we all wait on the edges of our seats to see what the justices will

decide in cases involving presidential

immunity, abortion emergencies, the future of the administrative state, and much,

much more. Now while we're waiting we will note that they haven't been completely remiss.

They did issue some decisions this week and so we will talk about those decisions but first before we get to their work we have some work of

our own we have for this live show at the Howard Theater, a very special guest.

This guest needs no introduction, but let me say this. He is a lawyer. He is a law professor, but most importantly he is a gentleman.

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