Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick. I write about the courts and the law, the Supreme Court, the rule of law for slate, and I host the podcast Amicus.

I've appeared on Trumpcast more than a few times, so for those of you who remember me from there, hello again.

While Trumpcast itself said goodbye after 45 left the White House, the alarm bells, the last administration said off about the Constitution,

battered and annihilated norms, accountability, truth, and justice are still ringing.

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On Amicus, we are continuing this conversation about constitutional questions, the pressing issues that are playing out in the courts and in governments.

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Who are these videos for now at this point? Are they four people who really are interested in dismantling this form of policing that's killed so many people?

Or are they just people looking at this as entertainment? And at some point, we have to ask those tough questions.

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

I'm Dahlia Lithwick. I cover the courts and the law for Slate. There is a lot of news this week coming out of one first street, including a decision Thursday reinstating juvenile life without parole.

Another refusal by the high court to take a big gun case and a reported $2 million book advance for the newest justice.

Justice's Sotomayor, Briar, and Gorsuch are all outstumping about how very, very well they get along. Coincidentally, they're doing that just as a bill to expand the size of the court was stomped to death by Nancy Pelosi.

Later on in our Slate Plus segment, we are going to talk to Slate's Mark Joseph Stern about the shocking decision out of the courts this week in a juvenile life without parole case.

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