Speaker 1: The story you're about to hear is inspired by true
Speaker 1: events nineteen seventy one. Sarah Weddington is a young lawyer
Speaker 1: in Dallas, Texas, desperately looking for her first job. At
Speaker 1: the same time, in Saint Paul, Minnesota Circuit Court, judge
Speaker 1: Harry Blackman is about to receive an offer that will
Speaker 1: change his life.
Speaker 2: Sarah and Harry are on a.
Speaker 1: Collision course that will forever alter America. From iHeart Podcasts,
Speaker 1: This is Supreme The Battle for Rome, starring Maya Hawk
Speaker 1: and William H.
Speaker 3: Macy.
Speaker 4: Whenever You're ready, mister Chief Justice and may.
Speaker 5: Have played the Court.
Speaker 1: Episode one Swinging a bat.
Speaker 6: I see you graduated high school at sixteen, college at nineteen, dear,
Speaker 6: first woman from your college to attend law school.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I sure was the very first.
Speaker 6: Uh huh, missus Weddington. Let's cut to it. What's your
Speaker 6: goal here?
Speaker 2: My goal? I'd like to join your firm, sir. The
Speaker 2: law is everything to me.
Speaker 6: Yes, But you already have a husband, dear, Sorry, was
Speaker 6: that a question?
Speaker 7: Well, at least you wouldn't be hunting for one of
Speaker 7: the firm. I suppose you'll leave us the moment you
Speaker 7: have kids.
Speaker 2: My husband, and I have no plans to have any.
Speaker 8: Sir, for now, while you're in your early twenties.
Speaker 1: Quite a gamble for us to take, Missus Weddington, you understand, sir.
Speaker 9: I graduated in the top quarter of my class, and
Speaker 9: that's despite being three years younger than any other student.
Speaker 1: Yes, but you see, in the office our lawyers use
Speaker 1: shall we say.
Speaker 7: Colorful language from time to time.
Speaker 3: It may offend you.
Speaker 2: I assure you, sir, I've heard much worse in college.
Speaker 2: I was president of the home Beaker's Association of America.
Speaker 3: I don't get it.
Speaker 2: Was that a joke which ansel will get me the job? Sir?
Speaker 7: It's not just sad, Missus Weddington. Only way to train
Speaker 7: associates is to cuss them.
Speaker 3: Out once in a while. Partners never be able to
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 7: As someone like.
Speaker 8: You cook your husband dinner dear.
Speaker 6: Right, the partner's wives may have an issue with an
Speaker 6: associated with.
Speaker 7: Legs like yours.
Speaker 2: I see.
Speaker 3: We just don't have a spot for you.
Speaker 10: Personal Injury Lawyers of Dallas.
Speaker 2: How can I jerk your car?
Speaker 11: How fast can you?
Speaker 7: Ty, sweetie?
Speaker 2: Honestly I have no idea.
Speaker 7: Well, we're short on clerks, so just do your best.
Speaker 7: The pay is a dollar ninety five an hour.
Speaker 2: I'll take it.
Speaker 12: After successfully placing Warren Berger on the Supreme Court, President
Speaker 12: Nixon has struck out with his next two high profile nominees.
Speaker 12: Both men became engulfed in scandal and lost difficult confirmation battles,
Speaker 12: an embarrassing setback for the president. The question is, will
Speaker 12: mister Nixon managed to find someone who can rise above
Speaker 12: controversy in these deeply polarized times and in other.
Speaker 7: News A jewish by the Chicago Deft.
Speaker 12: Guilty of the.
Speaker 8: Drake there, buddy, Hello, buddy, boy, looks like you got
Speaker 8: a lot more cons and pros there? What your list
Speaker 8: on the cocktail napkin there? Most guys use that to
Speaker 8: have girls write their phone numbers on them. But here
Speaker 8: let me see cons loss of contact, my friends and
Speaker 8: family lonely.
Speaker 7: Don't read that.
Speaker 8: Okay, what's list four?
Speaker 7: I may be offered a job. This is just how
Speaker 7: I chew things over.
Speaker 8: A job in this economy. Whatever it is, buddy, I
Speaker 8: take it, bart tender.
Speaker 5: I'll have whatever my buddy's drinking. Keep them coming. This
Speaker 5: is the spot you picked, Harry.
Speaker 7: You said you wanted low Keywarren or was it under
Speaker 7: the radar? I was flight in long wait.
Speaker 11: I've been here before.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 5: I can't believe this dump is still open. You're feeling
Speaker 5: nostalgic or.
Speaker 7: What something like that. It's good to see you, Warren.
Speaker 5: You look absolutely green, Harry. When I got the call,
Speaker 5: I went for a drink too, but not like this.
Speaker 5: I certainly hope it's not because you're his third choice.
Speaker 13: No, I shouldn't have been in his top five hundred,
Speaker 13: let alone top three.
Speaker 5: Consider yourself lucky. His first two nominees got rejected. Now
Speaker 5: he needs someone uncontroversial exactly, and I got sport Coat's
Speaker 5: more controversial than you, Harry.
Speaker 13: I'm honored to be the most boring man you could
Speaker 13: think of, Warren.
Speaker 5: Look, it would be an interesting got haynes Worth fifty
Speaker 5: five forty five rejection.
Speaker 11: You're perfect, Harry.
Speaker 7: I'm thinking of turning him down.
Speaker 11: Bartender.
Speaker 5: We're gonna switch the devils over here.
Speaker 7: I don't want the spotlight. I'm not like you, Warren.
Speaker 11: Please, that's your father talking.
Speaker 13: I know this is difficult for you to understand that
Speaker 13: I have no aspirations for fame.
Speaker 5: You sit on the eighth circuit, Harry, you're not exactly anonymous.
Speaker 13: Excuse me, ma'am. I'm sorry to bother you. Do you
Speaker 13: know who Harry Blackman is.
Speaker 2: Don't think so? Should?
Speaker 14: I know?
Speaker 13: You absolutely should not. Thank you now, you see I
Speaker 13: don't want that to change.
Speaker 11: Excuse me, ma'am.
Speaker 5: Who's Warren Berger, Chief Justice of the United States, the
Speaker 5: most powerful jurist in the country.
Speaker 11: Bring any bows, any at all?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 11: Sorry, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: You see anonymous, You'll remain It's America, Harry. Seventy five
Speaker 5: percent of people can name the Seven Dwarves, but I
Speaker 5: bet you anything, three out of four can't name a
Speaker 5: single Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 13: How many of the seven Dwarfs had had their lives
Speaker 13: picked apart by the Senate Judiciary Committee one.
Speaker 5: You don't need me to tell you what kind of
Speaker 5: opportunity this is. This is what puts you in the
Speaker 5: history books.
Speaker 11: Harry. I refuse to let you blow it.
Speaker 7: And what happens if we disagree in a case?
Speaker 5: Christ Harry, I hope we do. How will it look
Speaker 5: if you side with me on everything? They're gonna find
Speaker 5: out you were best man at my wedding and brought
Speaker 5: a date to my senior prom Hell, your mom's cooked
Speaker 5: me more pot roast than my own. Plus we're both
Speaker 5: Nixon met it'll be good for public perception.
Speaker 9: On the rare.
Speaker 11: Occasions we disagree.
Speaker 5: You just know they're gonna print your mom's nickname for
Speaker 5: us as soon as you're seated.
Speaker 13: The Minnesota Twins. It did occur to me. It'll be
Speaker 13: an answer in some poor kid's history exams.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine if somebody had told us when we
Speaker 5: were that age that one day we'd be sitting on
Speaker 5: the Supreme Court together? Harry, we were going to climb mountains.
Speaker 11: This is how we do that.
Speaker 7: Oh, I feel like the roof is caved in on me.
Speaker 2: Next.
Speaker 9: Hi, Sorry, I'm in a big hurry. I'm just on
Speaker 9: my lunch break. I need to open a credit card. Please,
Speaker 9: here are my forms. Let's have a look.
Speaker 15: Way there, Sarah Calvin, Hello, I haven't seen you since graduation?
Speaker 15: How you doing, Darling? What from you end up at?
Speaker 2: Oh, a smaller one.
Speaker 15: I'm at Whitfield Taft, Brad Peter and I'll land it
Speaker 15: up there.
Speaker 4: Actually, Oh, okay, all right, missus Weddington. Everything's in order.
Speaker 4: We'll just need your husband's signature and you're all set.
Speaker 2: Excuse me.
Speaker 4: Oh, if he's not here, take it home, bring it
Speaker 4: back anytime next.
Speaker 2: No, see, I need it today. I don't have time
Speaker 2: to come back.
Speaker 15: She's telling the truth, ma'am. She's an attorney. They run
Speaker 15: us associate's ragged.
Speaker 4: Says on your application. You work in a clerical office,
Speaker 4: Missus Weddington.
Speaker 2: I just need the credit card, please, ma'am your husband.
Speaker 9: I'm the one who makes the money in the family.
Speaker 9: Such as it is, this is my credit.
Speaker 15: Card, ma'am. I can vouch for the little lady, smartest
Speaker 15: girl lawyer. I know she ran circles around us.
Speaker 4: Boys at ut I'm sorry, Missus Weddington. Bank policy a
Speaker 4: man's signature is required. I'm sure your husband won't mind.
Speaker 9: I'm putting my husband through law school on my clerical salary,
Speaker 9: whether he minds or.
Speaker 4: Puts yourself in our place, Missus Weddington. If women were
Speaker 4: allowed to open up credit cards on a whim, a
Speaker 4: lot of them would just go on to shopping spree.
Speaker 9: Maybe your friend here could sign no, that's not necessary,
Speaker 9: thank you.
Speaker 15: See you around then, Sarah, you.
Speaker 7: Look nervous, Harry, nonsense, Dottie. This is what I look
Speaker 7: like when I grill.
Speaker 16: Uh huh. You flipped that burger fourteen times. I believe
Speaker 16: it's ready.
Speaker 7: I just want this to go.
Speaker 17: Well it will.
Speaker 16: I'm not worried about one of them any other.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 16: Remember, she's just a person like you or me.
Speaker 7: She is not like you or me.
Speaker 16: Oh boy, oh, here we go. Deep breath, my love,
Speaker 16: we'll face them together. Yeah out here, girls, Lord give
Speaker 16: us strength.
Speaker 9: Ooh, it smells great.
Speaker 2: So did you hear they had to cancel his birthday?
Speaker 16: Who's birthday? Oh, Susie, don't start.
Speaker 18: They practically had to barricade the White House.
Speaker 11: Mom.
Speaker 13: I don't think protesters have the ability to cancel the
Speaker 13: president's birthday, Susan, as much as you wish they could.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, she's just being dramatic. Dad as always, Hi.
Speaker 16: John Jay, Clarence Darrow, Hi Atticus, don't ignore Harmon kill
Speaker 16: a brew and Billy Martin.
Speaker 19: Girls, I was just about to say, hello, mom, all right,
Speaker 19: if Doctor Doolittle hour is over, Sally, Susan, your mother
Speaker 19: and I.
Speaker 7: Need to speak with you.
Speaker 2: What's going on? Dad?
Speaker 7: Would you like a burger?
Speaker 1: What's wrong?
Speaker 2: Daddy?
Speaker 9: Are you sick?
Speaker 16: Nothing's wrong? Calm down, Susie.
Speaker 7: Well that's a matter of opinion. Uncle Warren wants me
Speaker 7: to join him on the bench.
Speaker 2: Wait the bench? Are you serious? Can Uncle Warren do that?
Speaker 19: Isn't it up to The President has apparently agreed, my
Speaker 19: chief qualification being I'm uncontroversial. It's rather like being picked
Speaker 19: to play shortstop at the Twins because I'm the same
Speaker 19: shoe size as the previous fellow.
Speaker 18: Also that you're a prominent member of a group passing
Speaker 18: off cranky, outdated, closed minded, bigoted, paranoid opinions in response
Speaker 18: to positive changes taking place in this country as if
Speaker 18: they were genuine ideas, otherwise known as a Republican feel good.
Speaker 20: To get that off your chest, Susie, Dad's a judge.
Speaker 20: His political party has no bearing hole Sally.
Speaker 16: Actually, your father hasn't decided if he's taking the job yet.
Speaker 2: Really, why not?
Speaker 7: I despise DC Sally.
Speaker 20: Okay, so allergies are our biggest concern here.
Speaker 7: No, not the weather anyway, this is a family decision.
Speaker 13: You and your sisters will be affected, and your poor mother,
Speaker 13: she'll have to leave the dress shop in Rochester.
Speaker 7: None of us gets out of this unharmed.
Speaker 16: Unharmed. That's a little dramatic. Harry, even for you. I'm
Speaker 16: quite certain there are dress shops in DC, Susie. I
Speaker 16: think we all know where you stand. Sally. You haven't
Speaker 16: expressed an opinion yet.
Speaker 2: She's obviously for it. Mom, she's dad in a dress.
Speaker 15: Shut up.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Okay, Well.
Speaker 7: No one knows. I'm asking what you think.
Speaker 2: And I'm saying I don't know.
Speaker 20: I mean, I think it's sort of rich that they
Speaker 20: want you to tell the whole country what to do
Speaker 20: on every conceivable issue, when you can't even tell your
Speaker 20: own daughter what to do when she needs it.
Speaker 16: Young lady, what on earth is that supposed to mean?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 20: I'm sorry. I'm proud of you, Daddy, I really am.
Speaker 2: Come here, Judge, come here, Yes, yes you are, study.
Speaker 17: Sarah.
Speaker 21: I'm grabbing a sandwich next door.
Speaker 2: You want, thanks, Pete. I actually brought from home today,
Speaker 2: trying to cut down on expenses.
Speaker 21: Deb want medthing. Oh and I'm gonna be twenty minutes
Speaker 21: late to the bake sale tomorrow.
Speaker 17: Oh, just till the whole office be well.
Speaker 2: The idea is to actually sell pastries.
Speaker 9: Deb, we could use some customers, mister Sims office. I'm sorry,
Speaker 9: there's no missus Walter here, this is mister Sims office.
Speaker 17: You have the wrong numbe that's for me. Prom Queen
Speaker 17: allah Hi, I told you not to call on this line. Nope,
Speaker 17: do not come here. I'll call you back from the
Speaker 17: payphone across the street. You're in the lobby.
Speaker 2: What is going on?
Speaker 17: B get over here.
Speaker 21: What's happening?
Speaker 1: Dev?
Speaker 14: Doctor Lorry is in the lobby. He's about to be
Speaker 14: arrested again. Yes, he's coming up.
Speaker 21: Doctor Lorry is coming here.
Speaker 17: Paul together, be okay, we only have a second.
Speaker 14: He's got two cops on him. He needs time to
Speaker 14: get bail money together so he doesn't spend county.
Speaker 21: Oh my god, Oh my god, oh my god, oh
Speaker 21: my god.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go to jail down.
Speaker 17: We're not going to Jay.
Speaker 2: Can I help?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 17: And stop eavesdropping?
Speaker 3: Deb deb deb?
Speaker 7: Oh? I really I really need your help.
Speaker 1: Doctor Lourie, come here right behind me.
Speaker 2: Where should we have him?
Speaker 17: The storage closet?
Speaker 9: Go?
Speaker 7: Where is he?
Speaker 17: Hello, officer the doctor?
Speaker 7: Where do you go?
Speaker 16: Oh?
Speaker 17: This is a clerical office, but there's a clinic down
Speaker 17: the street.
Speaker 3: Where are you hiding him?
Speaker 7: Who?
Speaker 17: Officer?
Speaker 3: Lady, don't get cute.
Speaker 17: I'm not really sure what you mean? Girls? Have we
Speaker 17: seen a doctor?
Speaker 2: What do I don't know?
Speaker 17: We haven't seen anyone.
Speaker 3: You you in the Phillip pink? What's your name?
Speaker 21: Me?
Speaker 15: I'm nobody, I said, what's your name?
Speaker 17: She's no one, she doesn't know anything.
Speaker 2: I'm Sarah Weddington.
Speaker 7: Where did the doctor go?
Speaker 3: Missus Weddington?
Speaker 7: Lying to a police officer can get you in a
Speaker 7: lot of trouble.
Speaker 9: Dear, I really don't know what you're referring to, Officer.
Speaker 9: This is a clerical office. I haven't seen any doctor.
Speaker 3: Give me your keys.
Speaker 8: We're checking every office, closet and utility room in this
Speaker 8: damn place.
Speaker 9: We'll find him, of course, Officer happy to once you
Speaker 9: show me your warrant.
Speaker 7: Don't get cute, sweetie.
Speaker 10: I don't need a warrant.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 9: I mean you don't have a warrant, which makes this
Speaker 9: an unauthorized search of private property. I can't give you
Speaker 9: my keys, but I can't see you out.
Speaker 7: Like I said, cute, I find my own way out.
Speaker 2: I hope I did, all right, Dad?
Speaker 17: You see that last night on the Bold Ones or something.
Speaker 10: Good news is these have got to be the cleanest
Speaker 10: returns I've ever seen. You're not a risk taker, Judge
Speaker 10: black Man. Then used to be what's this houseworth?
Speaker 17: Judge?
Speaker 7: Why in the market? Agent Johnson?
Speaker 3: Judge Blackman, please, why would.
Speaker 7: You possibly need to know the value of my house?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 10: The more questions you ask, the longer this background check
Speaker 10: is gonna take. You gotta be transparent. If you're nominated
Speaker 10: to the Supreme Court, your middle school transcripts will become
Speaker 10: public record.
Speaker 13: I must have missed that part of Article three UM
Speaker 13: twenty five thousand. Maybe okay, and please, hey, be careful
Speaker 13: with those papers. They're in a very specific order.
Speaker 7: Laddie. Now you're in for it. Agent in here, Susan,
Speaker 7: what is all this?
Speaker 13: This, Susan, is a colonoscopy posing as a background check.
Speaker 13: Say hello to agent Johnson. If he stays another fifteen minutes,
Speaker 13: he'll know more about me than your mother does.
Speaker 2: It's so said that that's.
Speaker 10: True, all due respect, Judge, you're getting off easy. Our
Speaker 10: vetting process is usually much more invasive. But there seems
Speaker 10: to be some urgency here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Nixon blue with.
Speaker 18: His first two nominees, Susan, he did dun.
Speaker 3: The seat's been vacant a year, so your Susan the youngest.
Speaker 3: This actually saves me a trip if you have a moment.
Speaker 13: Absolutely out of the question, dud, It's okay, my daughters
Speaker 13: are off limits.
Speaker 7: Agent Johnson.
Speaker 3: Really not how this works, Judge.
Speaker 2: All right, Dad, what do you need to know?
Speaker 3: I have here?
Speaker 10: You went to work for the Naval Medical Research Institute
Speaker 10: after college, that's right, but you've since left.
Speaker 2: Okay, I see where this is going.
Speaker 7: What does this have to do with my nomination?
Speaker 10: You and three female colleagues have filed the class action suit.
Speaker 17: Yes, we have.
Speaker 7: Again, this has nothing to do with how I would
Speaker 7: rule from the bench.
Speaker 10: Judge, I'll due respect. You don't see how this is relevant.
Speaker 3: I certainly do not take my word for it, Judge,
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 19: If I can just say something, my daughter being a
Speaker 19: party in a lawsuit has no bearing.
Speaker 3: It's who she's suing, Judge.
Speaker 7: Who she's suing is im material.
Speaker 3: She's suing the United States Navy.
Speaker 18: It's about sexual discrimination. They treated us differently, They treated
Speaker 18: us terribly.
Speaker 10: You've also joined anti war protests, sometimes violent ones, on
Speaker 10: several occasions.
Speaker 3: Miss Blackman, Yeah, who has it?
Speaker 7: Okay, we're done here.
Speaker 10: Miss Your father's being considered for a position that would
Speaker 10: make him one of the most powerful people in government
Speaker 10: with a lifetime tenure. If I didn't ask about your
Speaker 10: apparent distaste for our country, I wouldn't be doing my job.
Speaker 3: My distaste for our country.
Speaker 13: Out of my house, Agent Johnson, now judge out, Well,
Speaker 13: that actually went better than I thought it would.
Speaker 2: You can do this there. Come on, deep breath, deep breath, life,
Speaker 2: isn't everything? Get out of the car.
Speaker 14: Come on, nothing from your friend at the Dallas Morning
Speaker 14: News be I mean, how can they not want to
Speaker 14: report about doctors being persecuted like this?
Speaker 21: I stopped ask him when he said he'd need to
Speaker 21: write about our referral network. I don't particularly want to
Speaker 21: go to jail.
Speaker 17: Deb Well, something's got to give.
Speaker 21: Well, that's the whole point of filing suit. But no
Speaker 21: Texas court will agree to hear.
Speaker 17: Us, which is why we ought to go federal.
Speaker 21: How can that to pay for that deb We're sitting
Speaker 21: in your damn driveway. Even if the carrot cake, If
Speaker 21: this bake sale is any good, we'd had three customers
Speaker 21: all day.
Speaker 17: I don't know.
Speaker 14: More bake sales, garage sales, whatever it takes. My sister
Speaker 14: works at County and last night, she admitted a woman
Speaker 14: who nearly killed herself trying to use chopsticks. Women are
Speaker 14: drinking castor oil? Do you hear what I'm saying? I
Speaker 14: do not have time to wait?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 17: Am I interrupting prom queen.
Speaker 2: It's Sarah? Actually Sarah Weddington.
Speaker 17: What are you doing here?
Speaker 2: Yesterday at the office? I overheard you're having a big sale.
Speaker 2: You have a sweet tooth, sweetie, take your pick.
Speaker 21: We could use the money.
Speaker 2: And you're trying to file a federal lawsuit.
Speaker 17: This is a closed meeting. Actually, be nice.
Speaker 21: Deb Sarah's not a cop. She works ten feet from you.
Speaker 2: A lawsuit over the Texas abortion laws. Right.
Speaker 9: I sort of figured the cop who came into the
Speaker 9: office yesterday chasing that doctor.
Speaker 2: It was about a referral.
Speaker 21: Service, right, Pregnant women call, We let them know where
Speaker 21: they can find a doctor.
Speaker 17: Who will help me.
Speaker 2: You don't know who.
Speaker 17: Princess will go squealing.
Speaker 2: To help them and their pregnancy.
Speaker 17: No, help them get their nail polish removed? Is this
Speaker 17: chick for real?
Speaker 2: Are you in the movement?
Speaker 17: Sarah? Look at her bee.
Speaker 14: A ten pound cat would disappear in that hairdoo. She's
Speaker 14: obviously not do.
Speaker 9: You quiet, deb Sarah, She's right, I'm not in the movement.
Speaker 14: No kidding, and she obviously doesn't have any experience with abortion, right.
Speaker 9: Look, I don't think that's who you should be looking
Speaker 9: for or what you need. And we may be able
Speaker 9: to help each other.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I don't think so help each other.
Speaker 9: How, Sarah, Well, I'm not really a typist.
Speaker 14: Ooh, let me guess avon, lady, No, president of the PTA,
Speaker 14: I'm a lawyer.
Speaker 21: Really?
Speaker 17: Oh please? You went to law school.
Speaker 2: Graduating near the top of my class.
Speaker 17: Mm hmm. You ever worked on a case?
Speaker 9: Just a couple of wills and an adoption from my uncle.
Speaker 2: You've been to court? Then court? Oh? No, god?
Speaker 14: No, Okay, Look, beauty, queen, you seem sweet, and that's
Speaker 14: a very pretty pastel dress you have on. But we
Speaker 14: don't need some twenty nine year old coming in here
Speaker 14: and telling.
Speaker 2: Us twenty five actually, wow, there.
Speaker 17: You go, now, if you'll expa wait.
Speaker 9: A second, you're talking about challenging a two hundred year
Speaker 9: old law on the grounds of women's rights in a
Speaker 9: state where it's still technically illegal for a girl to
Speaker 9: adjust her stockings in public. It's not long since I
Speaker 9: played high school basketball, and we weren't allowed to take
Speaker 9: more than two dribbles before passing off for fear that
Speaker 9: the exertion would damage our reproductive capacities.
Speaker 2: What you're trying to do is impossible.
Speaker 9: And I promise you your opposition isn't sitting around a bake
Speaker 9: sale right now. Your opposition is the sovereign state of Texas,
Speaker 9: presumably District Attorney Henry Wade, who's been on the job
Speaker 9: thirty five years and send as many men to death row.
Speaker 21: So you think it's hopeless, Sarah.
Speaker 9: I know it's hopeless, Bee, so do you. But that
Speaker 9: doesn't matter it does it. A lawsuit will make some noise,
Speaker 9: and noise is what's required right now. Noise is what
Speaker 9: wakes people up.
Speaker 17: Well said.
Speaker 9: Now, I'm not in the movement. I don't know a
Speaker 9: ton about women's live That's not my passion. You know
Speaker 9: what My passion is the law. Ever since I was
Speaker 9: a little girl, there's nothing else I wanted to do.
Speaker 9: It sounds like you all have no money to hire
Speaker 9: a lawyer, and even if you did, no respectable attorney
Speaker 9: would take you on. I'm not used to a certain
Speaker 9: myself like this, So forgive me if I'm doing it wrong.
Speaker 9: But I came here today to say I think maybe
Speaker 9: we're a match.
Speaker 2: What's in it for you, Sarah? We can't pay you.
Speaker 9: I interviewed at every firm in Texas that would meet
Speaker 9: with me after my graduation. It was always too delicate,
Speaker 9: too pretty, too bad. I just need a shot, I
Speaker 9: need a case.
Speaker 14: Flowery speech is aside. We need a real lawyer. We
Speaker 14: don't want to be laughed at.
Speaker 9: You're probably right, dev A federal lawsuit is huge. You
Speaker 9: need a law firm's resources, and we've tried.
Speaker 21: A dozen firms have turned us down.
Speaker 9: I know the feeling, and it's a shame because a
Speaker 9: federal lawsuit is incredibly complex and time intensive. Putting it
Speaker 9: in my hands would be like asking some guy you
Speaker 9: found swinging a bat in your driveway.
Speaker 2: If you wanted to play for the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 17: Well, thank you for understanding by now.
Speaker 9: But the thing is, we're standing in your driveway and
Speaker 9: I don't see anyone else swinging it back.
Speaker 1: Supreme The Battle Farah from iHeart Podcasts created and written
Speaker 1: by Aaron Tracy, directed by Rachel Winter, starring Maya Hawk,
Speaker 1: William H. Macy, and Abigail Breslan also featuring Laura Bonanti
Speaker 1: as b Andrea Savage as deb, William Fickner as Warren,
Speaker 1: Felicity Huffman as Dottie, Garrett Hedlund as Ron, Sophia Macy
Speaker 1: as Sally, Veronica Slowakowska as Susie, and Katie Kuric as
Speaker 1: the Reporter. Executive produced by Eva Longoria, Ben Spector, Rachel Winter,
Speaker 1: and Aaron Tracy, as well as Katrina Norvell and Anna
Speaker 1: Stump from iHeart produced by Kelly and Kelly. Executive producers
Speaker 1: for Kelly and Kelly are Chris Kelly, Lauren Berkovich, and
Speaker 1: Pat Kelly. Produced by Tamara Black for Kelly and Kelly.
Speaker 1: Director of Audio Chris Kelly. Original score by Hamilton Leitthhauser
Speaker 1: and Anna Stump, Edited and sound designed by Paul Tatoskini.
Speaker 1: Narrated by Lacrisia Brown. For a full list of credits,
Speaker 1: please see show notes.
Speaker 7: This is a production of Unbelievable Entertainment in partnership with iHeartRadio.