Hello, fellow law nerds.

Welcome to a brand new season of Boom Lawyred,

a rewire news group podcast hosted by the legal journalism team

that would make two great halves of one Supreme Court justice.

Jess, with all of this talk of court reform,

why has no one considered splitting one Supreme Court seat

between, I don't know, say, two 46-year-old legal journalists?

I mean, come on, it's time to think outside the box

if ever there was a time for it, right?

I think so. It's like, get it together, America. Jess and I are ready. Justice for Jess and

I'm Imani Gandy. And I'm Jess Peklo. ReWire News Group is dedicated to empowering you to own

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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 here we are, season five of Boom Lawyers. Season five. What? That's wild.

We thought we'd be able to take a nice break at the end of last term because the end of last term, that was a dozy, wasn't it?

But that whole take-a-break thing didn't exactly work out so well for us, did it?

Yeah, you know, it just really didn't because 2020 just, it just keeps happening.

I mean, here we were thinking, you know, coronavirus had turned everything upside down. We had this

big election going on. Ooh, we're in the middle of some exciting changes as a publication.

Let's take a break this summer so we can really collect ourselves and boom, Justice Ginsburg dies. And now here

we are in the middle of an election where hundreds of thousands have already started to vote

and the Supreme Court justice dies. So we know what that means, don't we,

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