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It's an old joke, but when a 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 or for our next.

Hello and welcome back to Strixcourtney, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. I'm Leah Litman and I'm joined by not one, not two, but three special guests this week for a very special summer episode that I think dovetails nicely with our last summer episode with Sheryl and Eiffel, who helped Kate and I bring together a new couple of people.

I think that I'm going to be a great summer episode that I think dovetails nicely with our last summer episode with Sheryl and Eiffel, who helped Kate and I break down the courts aversion to acknowledging the relevance of race and the legal professions.

This episode is going to be about diversity or lack thereof in the appellate bar and some of the consequences of that lack of diversity, but we're also going to be highlighting some awesome organizations, initiative projects and cases that are designed to address that lack of diversity.

I'm Leah Elie, Davey Rau, and Tiffany Wright. A mere is the deputy director of the Supreme Court and appellate program of the MacArthur Justice Center.

Davey is Supreme Court and appellate counsel at the MacArthur Justice Center.

And Tiffany is a senior associate at Oric in the Supreme Court and appellate practice.

And both Tiffany and Amir are on the board of directors of a great new organization, the appellate project.

I could probably spend an entire episode on any one of your individual accomplishments, but just to briefly introduce you all a little bit more to our listeners.

Amir has also taught at Harvard and Georgetown Law Schools and argued in one of my favorite Supreme Court cases, Welch versus United States, a habeas case on the retroactivity of Johnson, and Garza versus Idaho.

Davey clerked for Justice Ginsburg and before coming to MacArthur was a partner at Jenner and Block where she worked on a significant number of cases involving conditions of confinement and medical and mental health treatment.

Tiffany clerked for Justice Sotomayor and before that Judge Tadal and she has the rare honor of being a law clerk whose judge is willing to publicly acknowledge that you changed or persuaded your judge about the outcome of a particular case.

She's also one of the lawyers on the fantastic qualified immunity petition Taylor versus Reo Hass that I mentioned at the end of our episode with Sherylyn.

And it was also just announced that she's going to be co-teaching and appellate litigation clinic at Howard University School of Law.

So with that monster introduction, welcome to Strix scrutiny, Davey Amir and Tiffany.

Thanks for having us.

Davey Amir, I guess I'll ask you to start out by telling our listeners a little bit about the MacArthur Justice Center, what it is and what kind of work you do there.

Thanks Leah.

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