Is A New Supreme Court Emerging?

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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News Commentary,, Government, News

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This episode is a part of Opinionpalooza. Slate’s coverage of Supreme Court decisions. Thank you to our Slate Plus members for making this episode available to all listeners. The full version of this episode is now exclusively available to our Slate Plus members. If you want to have access to bonus content like this, go to slate.com/amicusplus to become a member.

Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern join forces for this Opinionpalooza extra episode of Amicus where they discuss Haaland v Brackeen, a case that could have upended Indian Law, but didn’t. The case concerned the Indian Child Welfare Act, Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion also reveals some tensions among the Supreme Court’s conservative justices. Together, Dahlia and Mark assess what another unexpected win can tell us about the shape of the current court.

Dahlia’s book Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America, is also available as an audiobook, and Amicus listeners can get a 25 percent discount by entering the code “AMICUS” at checkout

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0:00.0	Hi there and we are back for another emergency episode of Amicus that slates podcast about
0:10.4	the courts, the law, the Supreme Court.
0:12.4	I'm Dylith Wake and I'm here with Marchos of Stern.
0:15.9	We try to cover the courts here at Slate.
0:19.1	This episode is part of our opinion polluzas series.
0:23.0	We are making all of our weekly and bonus emergency episodes of Amicus available through the
0:29.1	month of June to all of our listeners.
0:31.8	We are trying to work really hard to create a new type of Supreme Court coverage.
0:37.3	Get up to speed at Slate.com slash opinion polluzas help support our work when you become a subscriber
0:43.9	to Slate.
0:46.5	So here we are popping in to talk about a huge important case that came down on Thursday
0:52.1	morning from the Supreme Court, Helen versus Breckine.
0:56.0	That is the Indian child welfare at case that threatened to massively undermine tribal sovereignty.
1:02.6	We're going to talk for a minute about Smith versus United States, which might have been
1:06.6	important when Jack Smith was deciding last week whether to file his indictment in
1:12.6	USV Trump in Florida or DC.
1:16.2	So to do all this, welcome back, Mark Stern.
1:19.3	So happy to be here with some good news for a second week in a row.
1:23.5	Like did I accidentally take acid instead of motrin?
1:26.4	What is going on here?
1:28.0	It's so strange.
1:30.3	Last week I think I wrote that the voting rights case felt like don't get too excited.
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