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. 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

Leo Littman and I'm Kate Shaw and it is time for another Supreme Court term.

We had something of a reprieve over the summer that was pretty great but it is over so today we are going to look ahead to what the court might have in store for us this time around and as we did in our last term preview

we're going to situate this upcoming term in the context of some of the things we have learned since our term recap.

Then we will look ahead to what we are anticipating on the docket in the upcoming term.

Before we get into any of that though, maybe a call to our listeners or a question for our listeners,

should the pod retain counsel?

So as you might have heard, former president and current candidate

Donald Trump recently called for those who criticize Supreme Court justices

to be put in jail. They were very brave the Supreme Court, very brave, and they take a lot of hits because of it

it should be illegal what happens you know you have these guys uh... like playing the ref like

the great bobby night these people should be put in jail the way they talk about our judges and our justices.

We're high on the list.

This adds a little, I don't know, air of danger to our new season. I feel like we have joked about how we might be on some

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