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 Daniela Thwiken.

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 through millions of lives and for the foreseeable future.

Slate Plus members, this week's Roundup is all happening in the main show.

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this term.

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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.

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