Welcome to the Secret Life of Cookies, where we try to solve the world's problems through

the miracle of copper hydrates, one recipe at a time, with host Marisa Rothkoff and her

dog, Bosco.

Hello folks and welcome to the Secret Life of Cookies, I have a good one for you today.

She, a Amicus podcast, Slates Senior Legal Correspondent and the author of Truly A Mustread

Book Called Lady Justice, is on today as my guest and we manage, you know, to talk about the

most recent threats to democracy and still be full of hope. So there's a lot to be said for that.

You will be able to find the recipe for the tautic that we make, which is a Persian rice dish

on my substack at Marisa Rothkoff.substack.com and also over on my substack we are going gangbusters

with my holiday cookie thana go-go with loads of recipes for baking this holiday season so you could

find some bake along and listen and I'd appreciate that. On with show. Hello everybody and welcome

to the Secret Life of Cookies, I have a very special gift as close to my kitchen as I can get her but

I'd like you to get you in my kitchen. It's Dalia Lithwick, the person I refer to as the 10th

and best Supreme Court justice, the judge of the justices, but we are here to talk about a lot of

things. Mostly your book, which I have over here, this beautifully ink covered book called Lady

Justice, Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America, you have been a senior legal correspondent

for Slate for a number of years and you have spent a lot of time in the Supreme Court. That's why

I call you my favorite justice, but we're also going to be doing something else very very special

today, which is making tautic and before we get into that I think I'll let you speak. Hi Dalia.

Well first of all, hi and thank you for having me and second of all I'm going to just continuously

lean against the stove and turn it on and off for like comedy comedy. Yeah.

Mostly I want to thank you for waving my book around because I was trying as I was sort of

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