Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels.

But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business.

So you can stay one step ahead. Soon it'll feel more like free-wearing downhill.

On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back.

Oh, that's nice.

Search zero with an axe, because healthy business is beautiful business.

There is a great concern that, unless you have a very clear standard,

you will turn many, many elections in the United States over to the judges.

The progressive agenda is dead on arrival because of the Supreme Court.

So if you're talking about Medicare for all or Green New Deal or banning voter suppression

or banning dark money in politics or gerrymandering and you don't have a plan to protect your agenda from the Supreme Court,

then you really can't be taken seriously as a candidate.

Hi and welcome to Amicus, late to podcast about the Supreme Court.

In the courts and the rule of law, I'm Dalia Lithwick and I cover some of that for slate.

And this past week brought us, ta-da, in a smog of confusion and ambiguity, the Mueller report.

Kind of. In fact, what we got was a four-page summary of hundreds of pages of Mueller report from the Attorney General.

And in the coming days and weeks, an almighty wrangle fest in Congress will determine how much we see of the actual report.

You can rest assured we will cover what is actually in the Mueller report thoroughly and completely on the show once we know what it says.

But we need not rely on summaries or spin to talk about the proceedings of the US Supreme Court, which is what we are going to focus on this week with a dissection of the gerrymandor cases heard on Tuesday coming up in a minute.

Now, later on in the show, we're going to dig into this issue of court packing, something that was completely unthinkable as a discussion topic a year ago,

but with Mitch McConnell's dogged focus on high-speed confirmations for federal judges.

Donald Trump has now ceded about a sixth of the federal appeals court bench and the issue is starting to surface, believe it or not, early on the campaign trail.

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