Hi, I'm Dialithwick. I'm the host of Amicus Slates podcast about the courts, the Supreme

Court, and the law. We are so glad you've joined us for our Opinion Polusa coverage, where

we have been all over the Supreme Court's slew of end-of-term decisions. Mark Joseph

Stern and I are a little punch drunk, but we wouldn't have done it with anyone else.

This was one of the emergency episodes we released as part of our work, trying to define

a new approach to how the media covers the Supreme Court.

Bonus episodes of Amicus are usually reserved for slate-plus members, but due to the urgent

nature of this work at this time, we were really glad to share these extra episodes with

all of our listeners for a limited time. And we're able to do that in large part because

of the support of our amazing slate-plus members. So thank you, slate-plus members, for

sharing the bounty. It's been a wild ride.

We're going to bring you this emergency edition of Amicus in the wake of a big and unbelievably

surprising decision that came down from the court Thursday morning to not further

eviscerate what's left of the Voting Rights Act.

It's this idea that you can totally cut race out of VRA claims and still come up with

the fair map. And what Robert says is, that gets this entirely backwards.

Seeing an indictment like this, if it were not Donald Trump, I would say, of course,

the defendant is going to plead guilty.

Hi and welcome to another special edition of Amicus. This is slate-plus.

We really are at an important milestone of accountability. The legal system is where

alternate facts don't work. The legal system is where all of these bogus made up arguments

that are just ridiculous will not withstand scrutiny.

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