Most Americans have no idea that under Chief Justice Roberts there are 73 of these five

to four partisan decisions in which there is a big Republican donor interest implicated

and in 73 out of 73 the big Republican donor interest one.

There's a strong argument that Trump's violation of basic constitutional anti-corruption

norms ought to be part of the conversation ought to be an article of impeachment.

Hi and welcome back to Amicus.

This is Slate's biweekly podcast about the Supreme Court, the courts, the law, the rule

of law and justice.

I'm Danielis Wick and this week's show is kind of jam-packed because there's a whole

lot of law going on in the world since we last spoke.

We're on in the show, we're going to talk about Mitch McConnell's takeover of the federal

bench and we are actually going to return to the emoluments clause which is it's still

a thing.

But first we're introducing a new segment this week in which we ask an expert to answer

a burning question from our listeners and this week's question is really what the heck

is a quid pro quo.

So we're picking up the new Amicus bat phone and calling into a former Amicus guest,

Mimi Roca for some help.

She's currently pace law schools, distinguished fellow in criminal justice and a legal analyst

for MSNBC and NBC news.

Before that she was an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York from

2001 to 2017 where she successfully prosecuted and tried numerous cases including several

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