Hi, I'm Dahlia Lithwick, host of Amicus Slates Podcast about the courts and the law and the rule

of law and the Supreme Court.

And it is opinion-Palusa season here on amicus.

There are about three dozen decisions coming our way over the next few weeks.

We're going to find out whether adjudicated domestic abusers have the right to bear arms,

whether the Fifth Circuit is going to replace the FDA to do abortion drug approval,

and if coup-prone presidents are truly above the law.

We're also going to find out whether pre-viability fetuses have more rights than their reproductive

hosts.

We call them women, and whether federal agencies can even exist all that and more and as we attempt to drink from this fire hose of Supreme Court opinions

We're going to be releasing extra emergency episodes for Plus subscribers with

analysis of the biggest cases just as fast as Mark Stern and I can race to our closets

and fire up our laptops.

So our first emergency opinion-Palusa episode concerns not

the New York Times reporting from Wednesday night that the Alito's had a second insurrection adjacent religious extremist

flag flying over their vacation home this past summer and that the Democrats are responding to that news with strongly worded letters again.

Nope, the real emergency is the six to three decision handed down Thursday morning in Alexander

versus South Carolina, N-W-A-C-P, finding that a lower court ruling

that held that South Carolina's congressional map was a racial gerrymander was wrong.

Writing for the 6- three conservative super majority.

Justice Samuel Alito finds that this major redistricting win in South Carolina was wrongly

decided because race was not in fact the predominant reason

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