There was a lot of big news obviously this past week when a leaked draft of the Supreme

Court's Roe v Wade decision was published by Politico. The draft opinion written by Justice

Alito would turn Roe v Wade from a federal issue to a state issue. Now this is a bit above

all of our pay grades. So, Tremoth had a really great idea to tap some people who are actual experts

and in the Supreme Court. Tremoth maybe you could introduce our guests. I will and cue this up for

us. Thank you. Great. So, first I'd like to introduce Amy Howe. Amy until 2016 served as the

editor and a reporter for Scotus Blog, which is the the premier blog that covers the Supreme Court.

She continues to serve as an independent contractor and reporter for Scotus Blog. She also writes

for her blog called Howe on the Court. And before turning to full-time blogging, she was a council

in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there. From 2004 until

2011, she co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School and from 05 to 13, 2013.

She co-taught a similar class at Harvard Law School. And I'd also like to introduce

her partner in Scotus and also her partner in life. Tom Goldstein, another dear friend of mine.

Over the past 15 years, Tom has served as one of the lawyers for one of the parties in just under

10% of all the cases argued before the Supreme Court. He has argued 43 cases himself. And two that I

think are probably a little bit near and dear to all of our hearts. In 2000, Tom served a second

chair for Lawrence Tribe and David Bowies on behalf of Vice President Al Gore and Bush Figuor.

And most recently, he represented Google in a fair use copyright infringement case

Google versus Oracle about the use of Java APIs. And so Tom and Amy, thank you guys for giving

us your precious time. Welcome to the pod. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. That's a

little nervous about what the introduction was going to be like. So thank you. So guys, there's

there's a million questions to start with or that we can go, but maybe just to frame the issue.

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