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Welcome to Amicus, Slate Supreme Court podcast.

I am Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Supreme Court reporter, and as you may know already, this was one of those weeks that tend to get us Supreme Court people very, very excited.

On today's show, we're going to focus on one case, Whole Women's Health versus Hellerstett,

that was argued Wednesday morning at the High Court as thousands of protesters commandeered the sidewalks outside screaming.

But before we get there, we wanted to bring you a little audio that most of you won't yet have heard,

although news of this sound on Monday morning just about broke the internet. It all happened early Monday toward the tail end of arguments in Wazin v. United

States, a really arcane and frankly boring case about domestic violence, convictions, and gun

ownership. On the face of petitioners, hypothetical, the press gallery was nearly empty.

I had only come up to this early case to try to clear my head for the next argument.

That was a complicated case about judicial recusal rules.

But this argument was proceeding so very snoozyly that even the Justice Department lawyer, Alana H. Eisenstein,

started to wrap up her presentation really early. If there are no further questions, she said,

signaling her intent to sit down at about 10.45 a.m., 15 minutes before she needed to wrap up.

There are no further questions. And suddenly, head swiveled, jaws dropped, next craned.

And we all heard something.

We have not heard in the courtroom in 10 years.

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