What's the way forward for a court that's troubled? Has the secrecy grown so great that it is protecting things that shouldn't be protected.

Hi, and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court and I am Dahlia Lithwick.

This past few weeks have been deeply, deeply strange, even by the court's own standard for whatever is the new normal.

We finally heard about the court's investigation into last May's DOPS leak.

Then we heard a supplemental statement about the justice's participation

in that leak investigation. And then we heard by way of some stellar reporting from the New York

Times, Jody Cantor, about how that leak was roiling the building from the inside and from all

around. Nothing about any of

this is good for the court, but maybe more importantly, it raises some questions about what it

means for all the rest of us. Later on in this show, Slate's very own Mark Joseph Stern is going

to join us for our special Slate Plus segment where we kick around the news we couldn't fit into the main show.

This week, that'll include the announcement of the first opinion of the term and its baffling unanimity,

involving benefits for disabled veterans, plus whether a new documentary about Brett Kavanaugh is indeed anything new.

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slate.com slash amicus plus. But first, the leak, the leakers, the leak investigation,

and the investigation of the leak investigation.

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