Hello, fellow law nerds.

Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyred, a rewire news group podcast hosted by the legal

journalism team that would like to wish you a happy transvisibility day, which was yesterday,

if you're hearing this on Thursday, but time is

irrelevant and a flat circle. I'm Imani Gandhi. And I'm Jess Peklo. ReWire News Group is dedicated to

inspiring you to own your relationship to sex, abortion, parenthood, and power. And the Team

Legal podcast is part of that mission. So a big thanks to our subscribers and a

welcome to our new listeners. So, Jess, it is the year of the ox. And I understand this. And I'd like to

wish everyone a happy Chinese New Year, even though it was like a month and a half ago. No big deal.

But you know what it also is? What? It's the year of the Black Lady lawyers.

And I would just like to give a shout out to black lady lawyers all across the nation who have been toiling under the white man partner who's having you stay late till 9 o'clock, even though

you finish your work at 7 p.m. but you just have to sit there for those extra two hours for

FaceTime.

I am not angry at all about my time in

private practice. It was fine. It was fantastic. But the first thing we're going to talk about

on today's show is Black Lady Lawyers, Biden judges, not just Black Lady lawyers, but Black Lady

Lawyers and Biden judges. And it's very exciting. Very, very exciting. So let me just,

let me just calm down a little bit, you know, I put some deodorant on. I'm a little sweaty.

Just let you take it from here. Sweaty is the theme right now because this is so exciting.

So on Tuesday, President Biden announced his first slate of judicial nominees and

Black Lady lawyers! Oh, my God! What a difference in administration makes! I mean, like,

like sincerely. Okay, so we got a total of 11 nominees announced.

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