Mr Chief Justice,

Justice, may it please the court.

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 ask 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 Scutony your podcast about the Supreme Court

and the legal culture that surrounds it. We're your host today I'm

Melissa Murray. I'm Leah

Littman and I'm Kate Shaw and we are going to just go right now. No banter. We got

the immunity ruling that is honestly terrifying both with respect to how the court wrote the opinion

in ways that will affect the Trump case in particular, but also more

profoundly with respect to how the court's opinion fundamentally reshapes

aspects of our constitutional democracy.

So with that, obviously we were talking about the long-awaited opinion in Trump versus United States.

Let's dive right in.

Not clear why it had to be so long-awaited, because if the court was just going to fire off some

BS takes that were divorced from law, history and constitutional principle, you would think

that they could do so quickly, you know, along these lines.

Justice Sotomayor noted in her dissent, quote,

settled understandings of the Constitution are of little use to the majority in this case,

and so it ignores them.

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