Mr. Chief Justice, please report.

It's an old joke, but when I argue in their hardest 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 next.

Welcome back to Strixcourtney, a podcast so fierce it's fatal, in fact.

I'm one of your hosts, Melissa Murray.

As you've noticed, I'm solo hosting today.

I'm really excited to be joined by a special guest, Adam Cohen.

Adam is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and he's had a really varied and interesting career in the law.

He's worked as a public interest lawyer with the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU.

He's worked as a speech writer for New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, and he's perhaps best known for his popular writing.

He's been a member of the New York Times editorial board and a senior writer for Time Magazine.

He's also the author of five books, the most recent of which is Supreme Inequality, the Supreme Court's 50-year battle for a more unjust America.

Adam and I took the time to discuss Supreme Inequality at an event at NYU Law School hosted by the Brennan Center for Justice.

That conversation has been released as a special collaboration episode between Strixcourtney and the Brennan Center.

We're grateful again to the Brennan Center for that, and we encourage you to check it out.

Adam and I had such a good time discussing Supreme Inequality that we thought we should get together again to discuss another one of Adam's books, and he has many of them.

But the one that came to mind for me was a book titled, Invisils, the Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Kerry Buck.

The book discusses Buck versus Bell, which of course is one of those anti-canonical Supreme Court cases, which is to say, one of those cases at the Supreme Court perhaps later wishes it had never issued.

Again, this is the famous episode in the Court's history where Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously intoned that three generations of Invisils was enough as he appelled a Virginia Sterilization Law.

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