I'm Kimberly Atkins' store, in from Magna Chakrabardi, and this is on point.

Dahlia Lithwick, welcome.

Hi, thanks for having me.

Dahlia is a senior editor at Slay, where she writes about the courts and the law, and

she's the host of the Amicus podcast about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices

who interpret it.

And now she is the author of the book, Lady Justice.

Just out this week, it profiles the women lawyers and judges at the center of some of

the most heated legal and political battles of the Trump administration.

Dahlia, what inspired you to write this book?

Well, first of all, thank you, Kimberly, for having me.

And second of all, I think it was women and law that inspired me.

I think there's been many, many, many books about Trump and law, about Trump in politics,

about law.

And I think I wanted to build a little bit of what seemed to me a pretty evident bridge

between what I see as a kind of special relationship or special connection between women and the

law and the rule of law and the necessity of law.

And so I wanted to really think about, and I don't know if I'm correct about this, if

there are ways in which particularly the women lawyers in the book who I profile, who really

all were kind of a bulwark against lawlessness and continue to be a bulwark against lawlessness.

If there's something special going on there that women rise to or meet the moment in a way

using the tools of the law when it feels as though the law itself is fragile.

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