Will Trump Succeed in Rigging the Midterms?

**Leah Litman** (0:00)
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**SPEAKER_2** (1:20)
Mr. Chief Justice, please report. It's an old joke, but when a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they're going to have the last word.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:32)
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 necks.

**Kate Shaw** (2:02)
Hello and welcome back to Strict Scrutiny, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. We are your host today. I'm Kate Shaw.

**Leah Litman** (2:09)
And I'm Leah Litman.
As you can tell, we are continuing our summer of rotating responsibilities, but fear not, you will get Melissa back next week. And before you know it, the three of us will be back in the usual swing of things. But here's what we've got in store for you today. We are going to start with the week's big legal and law adjacent news.

**Kate Shaw** (2:26)
We're then going to have a conversation about what exactly the president is trying to do and what he has gone running to the Supreme Court to ask for its blessing to do when it comes to voting and in particular voting in the fast approaching midterm elections. For that conversation, we will be joined by UCLA's Rick Hasen, friend of the show and one of the nation's leading experts on election law.

**Leah Litman** (2:43)
And finally, we will bring you a conversation Kate recently had with the legal director of the organization If When How about what they are seeing and working on when it comes to the use of criminal law to target both abortion and people who experience pregnancy loss in the wake of Dobbs. So stay tuned for that.

**Kate Shaw** (2:59)
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