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freshbooks.com slash amicus. Hello and welcome to amicus, Slate's podcast about the Supreme Court.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick-slate's Supreme Court correspondent. And with just three weeks left till the end of the court term

and 20 decisions still outstanding, the U.S. Supreme Court this week handed down, well,

one decision. This prompted longtime Supreme Court watcher Linda Greenhouse to quip in the New

York Times that, quote, at this pace, it will be Thanksgiving before the court issues its decisions in the same-sex marriage cases, end quote.

Despite the trickle of decisions, there's been a lot of action at the court as the justices hash out their docket for next term.

So later in the show, we're going to look at one of the big, big cases they've agreed to take up a case challenging the bedrock principle of one person, one vote.

But first, let's talk a little bit more about this term.

And specifically, one member of the court that we don't talk about much on this show, and that's partly because anybody listening in on oral arguments, as we like to do on this show, hardly ever hears from him at all.

I'm talking, of course, of Justice Clarence Thomas, who, despite his silence in the courtroom,

has had an awful lot to say on paper these past few weeks, in dissents, in dissents from denials of certiorari,

and in all sorts of other ways that we don't often pay attention to. We wanted to

better understand what is going on with Justice Thomas this term, and so we decided to invite a

former clerk of his Carrie Severino to join us. Carrie is Chief Counsel at the Judicial

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