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In season two, host Simone Leeper covers everything you need to know about voting in the US.

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The Supreme Court might stand as an impediment to passing laws that are necessary to promote a free

and fair election system.

Hi and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slates podcast about the courts and the law and the rule of law.

I am Danielis Quick and I cover those things for Slate Magazine.

And we're going to drop in on this off week for the show because with all the excitement

around Judge Katanji Brown-Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court last week,

we ended up having to spike a conversation that feels simultaneously incredibly urgent

and also depressingly evergreen. And that is a conversation about free speech,

full speech and disinformation and misinformation.

We wanted to talk about it in part because it is the driver of so much election denialism,

the collapse of institutions ranging from the media to government,

because amid the horrifying news from Ukraine and the pandemic,

the phenomenon of what our guest Rick Hassan calls, quote, cheap speech,

makes it ever more difficult to fully understand what is happening or why,

or to know whether you can trust what you hear and even what you see.

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