Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slates Legal Podcast, amicus. If you're listening to this

show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington,

D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.

My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,

including Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice.

All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution,

has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law.

It's been doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the rolling

back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear.

But there's something you can do about it, and we hope you'll join us in D.C. on May 14th

to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation, go to

slate.com slash Amicus live for tickets. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor and the author of The Queen.

This is Hang Up and Listen, and it is the dreaded emergency podcast.

We're recording on March 12, 2020.

The day, well I guess maybe March 11th

is the day that sports came to a halt in America and across the world.

Joining me not from our DC studio from his home in DC.

We're separated geographically but not in spirit.

It's Stephan Fats us, author of the book's Word Freak

and a few seconds of Panic.

Hello, Stephan.

Hi Josh.

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