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I'm Dahlia Lithwick. This is Amicus, Slate's podcast about the courts, the law, and the Supreme Court.

As you may have noticed, while the big velvet curtains closed on the ceremonial courtroom at one first street a few weeks back, the justices continued to do the nation's business,

evidently remotely, occasionally quite carelessly, but always, always raising the question of why

they require a ceremonial courtroom at one first street. In the first instance, if doing law by

fiat can be so easily dispensed from a first-class cabin.

This week, the court's conservative supermajority lifted a block on Donald Trump's plans to

eliminate the Department of Education. It lands a little bit like an unsigned out-of-office.

Greetings from our summer break, Mr. President. Do let us know if you need

anything else. So while the question is to whether the executive's effective dismantling

of an entire department created by Congress and to be dissolved only by Congress is actually

legal, when's its way back up to the High Court, the administration can get on

with effectively dismantling that department right now. So we are left yet again without any

majority reasoning and left to read fury and frustration in dissent this time from Justice

Sonia Sotomayor calling out the, quote, grave threat to the separation of powers

and the majority's willingness to reward, quote, clear defiance of the Constitution.

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