Mr Chief Justice, I is 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're your host today. I'm Melissa Murray.

I'm Leah Littman, and I'm Kate Shaw.

And the episode we are bringing you today has become something of an annual tradition, but not

the happy sort.

And that is that over the last two years we have done an annual summer retrospective on

Dobbs versus Jackson Women's Health Organization and what Dobbs has unleashed. We

started doing this the very first summer after the court overruled Roe versus Wade

because we thought and still think it is important to stay on this topic and to communicate everything that the overruling of Roe has set in motion.

You know, Supreme Court cases often get a ton of attention when they are first

handed down and then they can kind of fade from memory. But it is hugely important to remember

what and who is responsible for everything we are seeing happen in the wake of Dobbs.

So the very first summer after Dobbs, we talked about the stories that had already emerged about pregnant people being denied care,

often in the wake of trigger bands that suddenly went into effect after Roe fell.

And then in the second summer we did dramatic readings and reenactments of some of the opinions

and Dobbs to assess how the different claims in those various opinions held up over time.

And if you haven't listened to John Lovett playing the part of Justice Samuel Alito and

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