So long as we do nothing, this is the future we can expect.

If you read in the footnotes and between the lines and some of these decisions that we just got in the end of this term, you do see that the court cares about the public, but it's not today's public.

It's the public of 1791.

I want to know, like, what you think Democrats might possibly do that would put this court's exercise of raw and unreasoned power in serious

jeopardy. Hi, and welcome to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the Supreme Court and the rule of law.

I am Dahlia Lithwick, and that's my beat here at Slate. And this show is our annual term-ending breakfast table episode.

That means it's a look at the 2021 term that just wrapped up last week, but will reverberate on through the summer,

throughout millions of lives, and for the foreseeable future.

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So sometimes, as a term ends, things grow very quiet in the first week of July, but not this year.

The protests that are happening outside of the homes of Supreme Court justices rage on.

The marshal of the court has asked Maryland and Virginia officials to enforce their state's anti-picketing laws.

We are hearing reports around the country of

new physician guidance that's being developed about how long one has to wait to terminate an

ectopic pregnancy. Evidently, the mother has to be crashing. A 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio

had to be moved to Indiana for an abortion last week.

And a mass shooting devastated the 4th of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois on Monday.

As Justice Alito's concurrence in the Bruin case, the gun case continued to ring in our ears. What he asked, do mass shootings have to do

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