That day, it was just hours of hand-to-hand combat, hours of dealing with things that were way beyond any, any law enforcement officer has ever trained it for.

Look at all this direct evidence they have from direct witnesses.

It's compelling.

I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the president was bullshit.

What you're proposing is nothing less in the United States Justice Department meddling in the outcome of a presidential election.

Quote, maybe our supporters have the right idea.

Mike Pence, quote, deserves it.

There are two different audiences for the committee's work.

And maybe audience number one is sitting at the Justice Department.

Yeah. and maybe audience number one is sitting at the Justice Department. Hi, and welcome back to Amicus.

This is Slate's podcast about the law, the courts, the rule of law, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick.

I cover the Justice Beat for Slate, and we're about a third of the way through the month of June.

That's typically the Supreme Court reporter's Super Bowl month, but we're experiencing just

tremendous amounts of hurry up and wait.

The court still has a massive backlog in decisions, almost 30 cases that we're waiting on,

many of which will be controversial and transformational and earth-shattering.

And yet this week it managed to squeeze out just a handful of decisions.

It added a decision day on Wednesday in order to

announce one single opinion. It's enough to make a Supreme Court reporter want to spend the whole

month in prayer at the 50-yard line. NPR's Nina Totenberg this week also reported on a court in complete internal disarray with mistrust and anger and recriminations and ill will and inability to meet deadlines happening inside the building.

Also on Wednesday, a man was arrested with a firearm trying to harm Justice Brett Kavanaugh and his family.

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