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slash UK slash AI for people. I'm Dahlia Lithwick and this is Amicus, Slate's podcast about the courts and the Supreme Court and the law.

Hello, how are you doing? It has been one hell of a week. Another one in which the outrages grow more outrageous and our path to equal justice under the law grows narrower and more perilous.

I'm thinking just off the top of my head about the government's attempt to deport hundreds of children that it rounded up, send them to Guatemala in the middle of the night, of troops in the streets, and extrajudicially blowing up foreign vessels, and of canceled vaccines.

Mark Joseph Stern and I are going to be tackling some of these outrages in our bonus episode for Plus members.

You can listen to it right after this one.

But first.

We've kind of left the idea of amendment behind, and it is meant to be the thing that you can do so that you don't kill one another.

And that's what's so beautiful about it, right?

Like this will be the protection against

insurrection, against the United States devolving into insurrectionary politics. If we could

just fix things on our own when things aren't working well, then we will be sure that we won't

start killing one another. There's a creeping sense that the United States is just broken and broken in ways that are unfixable.

But today's show is about rekindling the possibility of repair.

Now, we have devoted a good amount of energy in recent years to thinking and talking about an American constitution that is, as Justice Antonin Scalia famously described it,

quote, dead, dead. The forces that brought us originalism, including Scalia,

worked very hard to establish a world in which the Constitution means no more and no less than it meant at the time of its drafting.

You get what you get and you don't get upset.

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