Hello, Amicus Lissner. This is Dialithwick and my book, Lady Justice, Women, the Law

and the Battle to Save America was published this past week by Penguin Press. Four years

in the making and I wanted to let you know that Lady Justice is available as an audiobook

which I thought might be up your alley seeing as you know you listen and it's what you're

now doing. I also wanted to let you know that Amicus Lissner's Ken Snag is sweet, sweet,

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now I'm going to play you a preview from the introduction of the audiobook courtesy of Penguin

Random House audio read by me, Dialithwick. I sometimes think of the Supreme Court oral

arguments in Whole Women's Health V Heller Step on March 2nd, 2016 as the last truly

great day for women and the legal system in America. There are to be sure many such glorious

moments to choose from both before and after Trump, but as a professional court watcher,

I had a front row seat to this story, one that offered a sense that women in the United

States had achieved some milestone that would never be reversed. The landmark abortion

challenge represented the first time in American history that a historic abortion case was

being heard by a Supreme Court with three female justices. Twenty-four years earlier, when

the next momentous abortion case, Planned Parenthood V. Casey, had come before the Supreme

Court, only one woman, Sandra Day O'Connor, sat on the bench. Go back a bit further and

Roe v. Wade, the path-breaking 1973 case that created a constitutional right to terminate

a pregnancy, was argued before and decided by nine men and zero women. And when Griswold

V. Connecticut, the lawsuit protecting the rights of married couples to buy and use

birth control was argued at the High Court back in 1965, that bench comprised nine males

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