Mr. Chief Justice, 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 today. I'm Leo Littman. And I'm Kate Shaw. And Melissa,

unfortunately, is not with us today. She is literally out of the continental United States,

although do not worry. She is not out of the United States for good. She will be back,

and hopefully we'll get her to share some thoughts with us next week. And as you know,

if you're listening, we are a Supreme Court podcast, and the court, as we have said many times,

is shaped by and a product of electoral politics. And this latest election in particular,

we also said repeatedly, was going to have some pretty seismic consequences for the Supreme Court. But before we turn to a discussion of the election and the court, as well as a discussion

of what's happened at the court this last week, we wanted to just take a discussion of the election and the court, as well as a discussion of what's

happened to the court this last week, we wanted to just pick a couple of minutes and some time

and some space to talk more generally about the election as such.

We are obviously not an electoral politics podcast, and I'm not going to pretend I have

any pronouncements or unique insights about what exactly

happened and why it did. But just as a human being, I have a lot of feelings about what happened,

as I'm sure many of our listeners do, and wanted to make time for that in part because it would

feel weird and disorienting not to acknowledge

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