Let's keep justice. Please report.

It's an old joke, but when a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this,

they're going to have the last word.

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 or for our next.

Welcome back to Strix Grootney, a podcast so fierce, it's fatal. In fact, we're your host. I'm Melissa Murray.

I'm Leo Litman. I'm Jimmy Santos. And I'm Kate Shaw.

And we are back for our term recap of October term 2019.

So get ready. We're going to break it all the way down. Kate, what's our outline for the show today?

We're going to do breaking news first. We're going to start with actually some podcast related breaking news.

And then some court and broader country related breaking news.

We will then go on to some term recaps. We recapped a lot of the cases as they came down.

So we're going to go look at some bigger themes and underappreciated dynamics of both the opinions and the commentary on those opinions.

And we will wrap as always with some court culture.

So the exciting podcast news, we are thrilled to announce that Strix Grootney is partnering with the appeal, which covers how politics, policy and legal system affect vulnerable communities in this country.

We are beyond excited to be working with the appeal. They have been doing incredible things over the last few years, bringing attention to the ways in which our society and politics neglect the less powerful, such as people in prisons and jails and detention centers, lower income people,

people experiencing homelessness and the like. We try to discuss on this podcast, not only the ways the court decisions shape the law as it's taught in law school and practicing courtrooms, but also how the justice's work affects people's everyday lives, their ability to vote and elect leaders, their reproductive freedom and access to health care, the fairness with which the government treats them, the process accused, people are doing criminal court and so on.

In the upcoming term, we'll be paying special attention to these and other issues, how this court protects the interests of less powerful people and interested organizations and how it does not.

And we are particularly excited about this partnership because none of us really have a core expertise in criminal justice.

And so we are hoping to do some episodes with people from the appeal to cover more of those issues in more depth. So to Josie Duffy Rice, who's the president of the appeal, please consider this a formal invitation to come on the show with us.

Your support is made our first year possible and we're so grateful we really could not have done this without you. But we're really thrilled that an organization like the appeal wants to help us to make the podcast a more permanent gig, which allows us to do things like pay melody, her real rate, offer our listeners transcripts, which will make the podcast more accessible and to allow us to record with people who don't have professional setups.

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