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It is plainly untrue that the president has the same free speech rights as any private citizen.

Our response to what Bruce Castro says should be no response.

It doesn't matter what he says, it matters what we do.

Hi and welcome back to Amicus.

This is Slate's podcast about the courts, the law and the rule of law.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick. I cover those things for Slate.

We are taping this show as Donald Trump's attorneys present their defense of the former president

in his second impeachment trial in the United States Senate.

I confess I spent the week glued to the trial not merely for professional reasons,

but for the first time in a year.

It is an emotional capstone to the four years that have come before.

The kinds of things we have thought about and talked about on this show.

It seems a foregone conclusion that there is going to be a second acquittal.

This raises real questions, especially for a lot of folks who have written to me this week

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