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

This week, the 2018 term came to its rollicking end.

And this is our annual amicus breakfast table champagne brunch in which we chat about the big cases, the term,

what's to come next October.

And joining us, as has become somewhat of a custom in recent years, is Professor Leah Lippman,

who teaches con law now at Michigan, right, Leah?

Yep, that's right.

And is going to be the host of a brand new podcast starting this fall, right, Leah?

That is also right.

And that podcast is strict scrutiny.

It's a new podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it.

And I am co-hosting the show with a group of wonderful Supreme Court commentators,

Melissa Murray at NYU,

Kate Shaw at Cardozo and Jamie Santos, a Supreme Court litigator at Goodwin Proctor.

Dream team. So welcome back Leah. And then we've got Professor Pam Carlin calling in from Stanford Law School.

Hi, Pam. Hi, how are you, Dahlia? I'm just, just tired. Thank you for being here. And of course, Slate's own Mark Joseph Stern, who covers the courts here at Slate. Hi, Mark. Hi, Mark. Hi. Thank you so much for having me on with two of my literal idols, as usual. I feel extremely insecure, but I will do my best to, you know,

provide some grist for this champagne toast. Grist and toast. Okay, onward and upward.

So happy end of term, all three. And I'm going to just briefly exercise a point of grumpy

privilege, if that's okay. Can we please stop

talking about the freaking damn debates for one second? I am trying you guys to be generous and say,

hey, let's all have hope again. And like, it's so good to, you know, be the change we want to

see in the world and fall in love with candidates. But oh my God,

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