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Hello and welcome to Amicus Slates Podcast about the Supreme Court. I'm Dyleithwick Slates, Supreme Court Courses Bonding.

And with just three weeks left till the end of the court term and 20 decisions still outstanding, the US Supreme Court this week handed down, well, one decision.

This prompted longtime Supreme Court Watcher Lyndon Greenhouse to equip in the New York Times that, quote,

despite the trickle of decisions, there has 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 descents, in descents from denials of Sursurari,

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 Crisis Network, a conservative advocacy group in Washington, DC. Carrie, welcome to Amicus.

Thanks so much for having me, Diane. So we wanted to start. I know you and I don't agree on much, but I think we might agree on this one thing.

It seems like a good idea to start with it. And that is, one of the things that drives me baddie is people who think their court watchers who say, oh, Clarence Thomas, they should have just given Scalia two votes.

His clerks do all the work for him. He doesn't deserve to be there and has never done anything.

Am I right that this is kind of a knock that has been going on for a long time, and it's profoundly unfair to Justice Thomas, who, in my view,

has a fully realized, completely independent and coherent constitutional architecture in place.

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