And there's a poem called Home by this British Somali poet,

Worc on Shire, that I love to quote.

And there's a line in it that says,

no one puts their child in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.

Hi and welcome to Amicus Slates Podcast about the Supreme Court and the law.

I am Dialithwick.

I cover the courts and the law for Slates.

And this week marks the one year anniversary of the election of Donald Trump to the presidency.

Sit with that.

Later in the show, we're going to talk to Becca Heller.

She's co-founder of the International Refugee Assistance Project or IRAP.

She actually briefly became the face of the entire lawyer's rebellion,

that iconic moment on January 27th of last year when

Strangers It Sounded at the time, thousands of Americans descended on the nation's airports to Yale,

let the lawyers in.

Not something where you're still hearing.

But lawyers have actually been the borrower against so many parts of what is most terrifying about Donald Trump in the attack on the rule of law.

So we just wanted to check in and see if Becca Heller is tired.

But first, before we do that, a serious point.

This week also marked yet another mass shooting when a man armed with an AR-556 rifle entered first-bapt

church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and proceeded to butcher at least 26 people and injure 20 others.

So many of them children.

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