I'm Dahlia Lithwick.

This is Amicus, Slate's podcast about the courts and the Supreme Court and the law.

Thank you for being with us.

Thank you. This was another week teaming with political violence in America.

Another week in which free speech and guns and respected world leaders raping and trading young girls,

the assassination of a major political figure, police brutality against people of color,

the military occupation of another American city in the name of law and order, and another school

shooting was all just another week. Our show this week will be about authorized state

violence against migrants and asylum seekers and U.S. citizens because of the color of their

skin and the language that they speak and where they are standing,

as authorized by a majority of a Supreme Court that was too embarrassed to even explain itself.

But please know that every facet of the Epstein birthday book and the threats of bloody vengeance

for the murder of Charlie Kirk,

and treatment of unaccompanied children in government shelters,

the promise of the National Guard being sent into Memphis,

is all authorized state violence, as is the jurisprudence that permits it.

Please don't say this is not who we are.

This is who we are.

It doesn't have to be who we are,

but this is what we choose.

On Monday, the Supreme Court issued an order

in a case called Nome v. Vasquez Pardomo

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