And there's a poem called Home by this British Somali poet Worson 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 Slate's podcast about the Supreme Court and the law.

I am Dahlia Lithwick.

I cover the courts and the law for Slate.

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, strange strangers it sounded at the time, thousands of Americans

descended on the nation's airports to yell, let the lawyers in. Not something we're

used to hearing. But lawyers have actually been the bulwark against so many parts of what is

most terrifying about Donald Trump and 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 Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and proceeded

to butcher at least 26 people and injure 20 others, so many of them children. By the time you hear

this podcast, that may be old news to you, or maybe that shooting will have been superseded by

another. But while we spend unholy amounts of time in this country

debating and bickering over moments of silence in Congress or whether it's okay to tweet out our hopes

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