We've done the six-week ban, we've done this ban, we've done that ban, you know, we've been in constant litigation for the last, you know, decade or so against these restrictions.

I think the Supreme Court hides a lot of mischief in plain sight.

Hi, and welcome back to Amicus, Slate's podcast about the Supreme Court, the law, and the rule of law

in the courts.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick.

I cover those things for Slate.

And as we round up on the month of June, we're getting to that time of the year when big, big decisions rain down from the highest court in the land.

And even before all those decisions come raining down, this past week saw an absolutely huge grant of Sir Chirari in an abortion case for next term.

We are watching a Supreme Court that allegedly had meant to stay out of the headlines until after the midterms that is actually now gobbling up the headlines.

And the question remains, why is the court taking such big swings and will it matter?

Later on in the show, we're going to talk to two of the sharpest court watchers out there,

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who has been bird-dogging questions about dark money and influence

at the court for as long as we've had a show.

And Vox columnist Ian Milheiser, whose new book, The Agenda, How a Republican Supreme Court

is Reshaping America, examines the connection between conservative activism at the Supreme Court

and the erosion of representative democracy.

In other words, we're going to talk a lot on this show about how that sausage gets made and what we're not seeing when we're not looking hard enough at the courts.

And Mark Joseph Stern is back.

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