Here's the Bryan Lair show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. Happy first Monday in

October, which means happy first day of the new Supreme Court term, which comes around

the first Monday of every October and lasts until those final high stakes, high drama days

that we all know about near the end of June. And this term will probably be about as high

stakes as some of the recent ones with rights to the abortion pill, voting rights, further

questions about affirmative action, maybe even a challenge to Donald Trump's legal basis

for hoping to be present and again, all being talked about and more. With us now, Stephen

Maisy, Supreme Court correspondent for the economist, he is also the Supreme Court analyst

now for the WNYC Supreme Court podcast, more perfect and more perfect host Julia Longoria

joins us to all this week. We are re-earing episodes from last seasons, more perfect. Monday

through Friday nights at 8 o'clock, these great episodes. The many of you heard us podcasts

and we will be airing them on the radio 8 o'clock tonight through Friday night this week

as they remain highly relevant and will play some clips as we go. So Stephen, welcome

to the live side of WNYC and Julia always go to have you on the show. Hi. Ryan, thanks

for having me. Great to be here. And let's start with a little bit from the past season

and a past justice no longer on the bench, David Souter, subject of one of the more perfect

episodes that will be in fact re-earing this week. Julia, you want to set this up for

us. Remind us why you did an episode about David Souter and sort of what his legacy is

that informs Supreme Court nominations to this day? Absolutely. Yeah, we got a lot of questions

from listeners leading up to this season about how we got here, how did we get this court,

how did the court become, you know, so political some people are saying. And so we tell the

story of a conservative justice, a justice that was thought to be conservative appointed

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