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Hi and welcome to amicus, Slate's podcast about the U.S. Supreme Court. I am Dahlia Liffick Slate's

Supreme Court correspondent. This was a slightly

crazy week because there were a lot of rumors. There's always rumors that King v. Burwell,

the big Obamacare case, was coming down on Thursday and everybody was running around and

it was a madhouse and, of course, King did not come down. But we got a whole bunch of decisions on Monday and on Thursday. They had a big pile up of cases 17 that they needed to get through. And only two weeks left of the term, folks were getting nervous. The court solved that problem on Thursday, A, by adding Thursday as a decision day, where there would

be more decisions. They haven't done that yet this term. And then by handing down six big cases,

including Kerry v. Dinn, a case that was just supposed to be about what you do when you

don't get your visa, but turned into quite a discussion about whether marriage is a fundamental right,

a pair of speech cases that came down on Thursday, a lot to chew on.

And joining me to try to chew on, at least some of the cases that the court handed down this week,

is one of my favorite people in my little court mafia, Garrett Epps, who teaches law at the University of Baltimore. He's also the Supreme Court correspondent for the Atlantic, and I like to think that the two of us kind of hold down the cheap seats at the U.S. Supreme Court. So Garrett, welcome, first of all, to Amicus. It's great to have you. Great to be here. So this was a big week at the court. Probably not the big week everybody was

hissing and whispering about, but it was still a pretty big week. And I thought we'd start with Monday,

if we could, and talk a little bit about DIN. Carrie versus Dinn was supposed to be a kind of

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