Mr Chief Justice,

Justice, may it please to 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 scrutiny your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal

culture that surrounds it and today we're bringing you a very special

episode that is all about state courts.

I'm your lone host for this segment, Kate Shaw, and our episode today is going to proceed in

three parts.

The first part involves a deep dive on state Supreme Courts that have one or more seats on the

ballot in the upcoming election.

In the second of this episode's three parts, we're going to be joined by two people who are

actually running four judicial seats in their respective states which are two really important

ones Michigan and North Carolina and in our final segment we're going to be

joined by Professor Miriam Seifter of the University of Wisconsin-Madison along with

Justice Anita Earls of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

So let's dive right into our first segment and welcome to the pod Emily Passini, who is the deputy

director for candidate races in the National Political Advocacy Department of the ACLU.

That means she is closely monitoring judicial elections and she manages the strategy and

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