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The hearing to confirm Judge Amy Barrett to the Supreme Court will now begin.

The GOP has long been aware that they should focus on the

wrapping paper and not the toxic mess that is inside. It's a sincere question. I'm generally curious.

No hints, no previews, no forecasts.

Hi and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the

law and the rule of law and the US Supreme Court. I'm Dahlia Lithwick.

I write about those things for slate.

This week, usually an off week for us on the show is of course an on week for us on the show because

we spent it watching the historic hearings of

Judge Amy Coney Barrett who will likely be voted on and confirmed and seated at the highest court of the land in a matter of weeks.

There's a good deal to say about these hearings and also not much to say.

The hearings themselves went off without much variance from the usual script.

Four-year president fills five years worth of vacancies.

Why? Well, because he can.

And as our guest Robert Raybin predicted last week on this

show Senate Democrats tried to highlight the real world impacts of what it's going

to be like to have a six to three Supreme Court that will

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