The following podcast contains explicit language.

Black women are the canaries in the coal mine.

Once you begin permitting law enforcement

to invade the hospital where women are being treated,

invade the privacy of families' lives,

and to then have precedent before courts with doing so,

then everybody becomes vulnerable to it.

It's not just black women, and that's the story that's being played out now.

Hi and welcome back to Amicus.

This is Slate's podcast about the courts, the law,

the Supreme Court, the rule of law in America today.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick.

I cover some of those things for Slate,

and this week's show is part of our summer series

that pans back from the Supreme Court term

and brings you fascinating legal thinkers.

You may not have heard too much about yet.

This week we wanted to talk a little bit more about race,

which has pretty quickly emerged in the last few days

as the defining issue in the 2020 election.

This has been, one might suggest,

the defining issue in every presidential election.

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