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None of what we are doing is I think unprecedented.

You're certainly hearing an unprecedented amount of complaining by the former president and his

enablers because they don't like what we're finding. I've pointed to three decisions over the

course of 20 years that shows this slow death of the Bona Rights Act and this Alabama case has to

be read in that context. Hi and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the law

and the courts and the Supreme Court and the rule of law. I am Daliya Lithwick and it's been a pretty

weird few weeks in Washington DC and at the Supreme Court. The GOP is grappling with the fallout

from the RNC's decision to characterize the events of January 6, 2021 as quote,

legitimate political discourse. As the January 6 committee pursues the truth of what that event

really did represent, two stories increasingly tough to reconcile. We are awaiting President

Joe Biden's nominee for a Supreme Court seat soon to be vacated by Justice Stephen Breyer,

but in the meantime we got an order on Monday evening, halting a major racial redistricting decision

under the Voting Rights Act in Alabama. That order happened on the shadowdocket and rather

than explain the reasoning behind it, Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a concurrence that was signed only

by Justice Samuel Alito used that concurrence to, you know, attack the dissenters. Later on in

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