Mr. Chief Justice, may please support.

It's an old joke, but when I argue men,

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 off our necks.

Thank you. Hello and welcome back to strict scrutiny, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it.

We're your host. I'm Melissa Murray. I'm Leah Littman. And I'm Kate Shaw. And here's what we have in store for you today. We have a lot to cover. We have been on break for the last month, and the last

48 hours alone have felt like a whole year. That is because the Trump administration hasn't even

started. And yet, things already seem to be imploding pretty quickly. So we are going to

defer talking about some of the implosions that we've seen happen over the last month until future

episodes. So tie a knot in your mental handkerchiefs for that. But today, what we have in

store for you is also really juicy. We have a stay tuned update on the race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court. Then we're going to recap the argument in the TikTok case before the Supreme Court.

We are also going to cover oodles of court culture that includes Donald Trump's sentencing and attempts to avoid it.

Including a very Freudian cert petition from future SG John Sauer and future deputy attorney

general, Todd Blanche. More on that later. We're also going to get to Eileen Cannon taking

the cake when it comes to utterly baseless, lawless nonsense in her effort to prohibit the Department

of Justice from releasing Jack Smith's report on the federal election interference case against

Donald Trump. And other red flags, which will include Sam Alito, as well as the Chief Justice's

year-end report. And finally, as a perfect palate cleanser, and to prove that

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