The real issue in this case is whether a partial day's worth of cement being unusable is

more like a building potentially being blown up by terrorists or some cheese going bad.

The difference between the milk spoiling and killing the cow.

Hi and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slates podcast about the courts and the law and the US Supreme Court.

I'm Diallithmic. I cover some of those things for Slate and we are a few short days into 2023

and it's pretty darn clear there will be lots more Rockham Sockham coming from among other things.

A dysfunctional Republican House of Representatives which this week went after the IRS and abortion rates.

The US Supreme Court which has yet to issue a report on the DOBS leak and the Biden administration

which keeps on turning up classified documents it failed to return.

And of course George Santos who will never be mentioned again on this show.

But he is still a member of Congress despite the fact that his entire political career seems to have been a protracted game of two truths and everything else is always a lie.

The Supreme Court was back in action this past week following Chief Justice John Roberts reported the end of the year in which I guess he compared DOBS to school desegregation cases

and then fredded about judicial safety but not judicial ethics rules.

Our show today is another one of those double headers.

First we are looking at a case that was heard Tuesday that may have really big implications for the right to strike and the future of unions.

And then we'll be speaking to Brad Meltzer. He's the author of countless legal thrillers about his latest rip from history titled The Nazi Conspiracy

which just dropped this week later on in the show.

Slate plus members are going to get it check in with Slate's very own Mark Joseph Stern about some of the things we couldn't get to in the main show including Virginia's proposed 15 week abortion ban.

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But first labor which is very cool again which may be why the Supreme Court reached out and grabbed a case that could decimate workers rights to organize this court loves to be in step with prevailing public opinion.

The case is called Glacier Northwest Inc. versus International Brotherhood of Teamsters and it was argued this past week at the court.

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