The Department of Justice is taking the position that, well, in both cases, the court

recognized that the president is special, and we're arguing that the president is special.

QED, we win.

We're living in a nature of impunity, and impunity, of course, is not just the fact that people

do illegal things, but that they get away with it.

Hi, and welcome back to Amicus.

This is Slates Podcast on the Courts and the Law and the Rule of Law and the Supreme

Court and many other things that have the word law in it.

I'm Dialithwick, and I cover those topics for Slate.

So this past week, the court was finally done with its real-time telephonic argument experiment.

And now what looms for the remainder of the term are decisions that are pending in a slew

of unbelievably important consequential cases.

So we want to talk a little bit about the financial records cases that were argued last week,

and we also want to reflect on how those real-time telephone arguments fared in terms of, well,

the justice is themselves, and we're going to be talking to Leah Lippman about that.

There's also just some tea leaf reading that we can do while we wait for the decisions

to come down, and Slate Plus members are going to get to hear from my co-juresprudential

tea leaf Confederate Mark Joseph Stern on all of that.

If you are not a Slate Plus member, you can always go to slate.com slash amicusplus to

sign up.

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