Mr Chief Justice, I am pleased for it.

It's an old joke, but when I argue, man 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 asked no favor for my sex.

All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our next. Hello and

welcome back to strict scrutiny your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal

culture that surrounds it. We are your hosts. I'm Kate Shaw and I'm

Melissa Murray and I'm Leah Littman. We've spent the last few weeks talking about Project 2025,

The Heritage Foundation's plan to essentially dismantle American government

should the Trump campaign succeed. Today we're going to wrap up the series with a full-length deep dive into

parts of Project 2025 we haven't yet discussed but also attempt to synthesize some

big themes in the 900 Banana Republic pages we had to read.

And to do that, we are joined today by a very special guest, my colleague at NYU, Ruth

Benjyat.

Ruth is a professor of history and Italian studies at NYU, and she is also the author of the terrific book

Strongmen, Musilini to the present. Hopefully, listeners, you'll understand why exactly she is the perfect

guest to join us to wrap up Project 2025.

Ruth also recently published a terrific piece in the New Republic called The

Permanent Counter-revolution and it is all about Project 2025. So Ruth, thank you so much for joining us on Strix Grutie.

I'm really pleased to be here, such an important topic.

It is and you are the perfect guest, as Melissa said, to help us break it down. So this is the final segment in our Project 2025 coverage

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