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the law and the rule of law and the court.

And this week, decidedly, this is a show about the lives that are irrevocably

altered by all of those things.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick and this is my beat at slate. This last

week brought a raft of cert grants in a bunch of new cases at the High Court

including the long-awaited decision to hear the

Miff of Pristone Abortion Pill Challenge out of Texas.

The Supreme Court also agreed to hear a case from a January 6th defendant who wants to dismiss a charge

accusing him of obstructing an official proceeding that's a charge that

Donald Trump himself also faces. the case could have big implications for Trump's

own future legal liability.

The court also asked for a speedy briefing on a case raising the issue of whether as former

president Donald Trump is absolutely immune from criminal charges and all of

that is to come in the next half of this Supreme Court term and we will

I promise cover the arguments as they happen. This week also brought us a deeply reported really superb piece from our colleagues

of the New York Times looking back at how the Supreme Court granted cert, heard and authored

the Dobbs opinion overturning Row v. Wade, and did so largely by just

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