Amicus: MAGA SCOTUS Is Back

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🗓️ 1 July 2023

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This episode is a part of Opinionpalooza. Slate’s coverage of Supreme Court decisions. We consider this coverage so essential that we’re taking down the paywall for all of it. If you would like to help us continue to cover the courts aggressively, please consider joining Slate Plus. And sign up for the pop-up newsletter to see the latest every week in your inbox. As the Supreme Court’s June term wraps up with a slew of awful decisions, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Slate’s own Mark Joseph Stern to analyze 303 Creative LLC v Elenis, a case with startling implications for the dignity and equal treatment of LGBTQ couples and families. They also discuss the new reporting that shines light on the hall of mirrors that brought the case to court. Then, Dahlia and Mark are joined by Dalié Jiménez, Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and Director of the Student Loan Law Initiative at UCI Law to discuss the court’s decision to strike down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program. Finally, Dahlia turns to Michaele Turnage Young of the NAACP LDF to take a closer look at Thursday’s affirmative action decision, which outlawed race-conscious admissions in most higher education contexts. In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern to answer a listener question about something that has us all scratching our heads in the wake of Moore v Harper, and look ahead to some gun safety litigation that’s winding its way up to the High Court. Sign up for Slate Plus now to listen and support our show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This decision itself stamps same-sex couples and LGBTQ people with the badge of inferiority
0:10.8	and tells them you are not fully part of the Constitutional Order.
0:16.2	We want a rule here and we have a decision to reach and the Supreme Court is just bending
0:20.0	over backwards to get there.
0:22.4	It feels like they are turning Brown on its head using Brown, which we segregated our country
0:29.6	to re-segregate higher education.
0:34.2	Hi and welcome back to Amicus.
0:36.1	This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court.
0:40.1	And I am Dahlia.
0:41.1	Let's wait.
0:42.1	That's maybe it's Slate.
0:44.1	And this Friday, the High Court issued its final decisions of the 2022 term.
0:48.9	There's going to be a little housekeeping.
0:50.9	Then the justices are free for the summer and could not have come soon enough.
0:56.6	These last few days have seen some highlights and low lights and on this show we are going
1:01.5	to focus attention on three of the final merits decisions of this term.
1:06.8	Next week we will bring you our annual breakfast table in which we round up some of the best
1:11.5	experts we know and chew over some of the big themes of the whole year.
1:16.0	But today we want to talk specifically about affirmative action which came down on Thursday,
1:21.3	three creative and loan forgiveness both of which came down on Friday.
1:26.3	Because I think it's fair to say that those rumors of the demise of the six three Supreme
1:31.7	Court were probably very premature.
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