I'm Dahlia Lithwick.

This is Amicus, Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the U.S. Supreme Court.

The civil rights movement was not like, let's get things for black people.

It is the beginning of true democracy in this country, and the resistance to it was an anti-democracy movement.

Why is it we only take people from shithole countries?

Is there any greater cancellation than, you know, someone trying to take your citizenship from you?

She should get the hell out, throw the hell out. She does nothing but complain. We are We are reaching

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and you all are completely forgiven

if you just want to hit the emergency red stop button.

But if you want to keep on thinking about what the law does when the law is evaporating,

do hang on in there with us, because this week we are talking to one of our most

cherished and beloved friends and shepherds, Cherylyn Eiffel, who never hesitates to remind

us that, yes, the law is slowly strangling us right now and also that the law can and will set

us free. But before we talk to Sherrillin, I want to tell you about

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that when big breaking legal news breaks bigly, or as is almost always the case now, there is

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