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Hi, and welcome to amicus, Slate Supreme Court podcast.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick, Slate's pretty darn tired Supreme Court correspondent.

I started last week's episode by saying, oh, it was so crazy.

I didn't know what crazy was until this week.

This week has been completely bonkers with the court handing down two much, much anticipated rulings and surprising everybody by doing it a week before we thought they would.

On Thursday, the court handed down King v. Burwell, a six-three decision,

finding that President Obama's Affordable Care Act allowed the federal government to subsidize

health care for poor and middle-class Americans, even if they were on states that had not

created their own state exchanges. And then, in a five-to-four ruling on Friday in Obergefell v. Hodges,

the court ruled that same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional in states that have them

and that every American has a right to enter into a same-sex marriage. With the ink barely dry on

these opinions, I've asked Walter Dellinger to join me here in Slate's Washington, D.C.

studio to help sort all of this out. Walter is a professor of law at Duke University. He's

former head of the Office of Legal Counsel and former Solicitor General in the Clinton administration.

He's also a dear, dear friend of Slate. He and I have been talking about the Supreme Court term at the last week of the term for 14 years.

Welcome back to Amicus, Walter Dillinger.

Well, Delilah, thank you.

You have me here on two of the more dramatic days we've seen at the court in a long time.

And nobody thought marriage was going to come down today.

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