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Welcome to Amicus Slate Supreme Court podcast.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick.

I cover the court for Slate.

And I'm holding my breath, just like a whole lot of you, as this month of June ushers in a whole lot of something or a whole lot of nothing or at least

the end of a term that is now just limping toward the finish line. This week, the Supreme

Court only had decisions one day, accepted no new cases for next term, but handed down some

important decisions in several cases, including Foster v. Chapman.

That was an important jury selection case that we covered on the podcast last fall.

This was the case where prosecutors were pretty much on record, literally highlighting the names of

African Americans in the jury pool in Green Highlighters so they could be eliminated from that

pool in advance. the court ruled by a

seven to one margin that this move had indeed been unconstitutional.

Week before, the court punted on another big, big ticket case, Zubik v. Burwell.

That case centered on the Obamacare contraception mandate.

There, the justices more or less just instructed the parties

and the lower courts to, well, work it out amongst themselves.

There's also been a clutch of four-four ties,

but for the most part, what we're seeing,

this term is the court disposing of what might have been

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