Opinionpalooza: The Supreme Court End-of-Term Breakfast Table

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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🗓️ 6 July 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

What just happened??? Despite going into June clear-eyed and well informed about the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, the number of huge cases before it, and the alarming stakes in so many of those cases…we are, nonetheless, shocked. The October 2023 term came to a shuddering end on Monday July 1st and Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern, Steve Vladeck and Mary Anne Franks are here to help parse some monumental decisions, some smaller cases with big ramifications, and what we can understand about the Justices who made those decisions for the rest of us, and the Justices who dissented. This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. We kicked things off this year by explaining How Originalism Ate the Law. The best way to support our work is by joining Slate Plus. (If you are already a member, consider a donation or merch!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's no shame of these justices saying we can do this better than experts.
0:07.4	We can do this better than scholars.
0:09.0	We can do this better than scientists.
0:11.7	I wonder if that is room for evolution for her.
0:15.6	If there is a little bit of cognitive dissonance
0:17.8	she's perhaps experiencing when the rubber hits the road
0:20.3	and the court actually has to decide these issues
0:22.1	and does so poorly.
0:24.0	John Roberts is done trying to be an institutionalist.
0:30.0	Hi and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts, the
0:37.6	law, the Supreme Court, and something we used to call the rule of law.
0:42.6	I'm Dahlia Lithwick and that's my beat.
0:45.6	After Monday morning's release of the opinion in Trump, the United States,
0:49.8	the work for us all now truly lies in understanding what the Supreme Court and the rule of law even mean for democracy itself, for all of us, in its wake.
1:00.0	This term was like none I have ever witnessed in 25 years as a journalist and the ripple effects will be felt for many years to come.
1:10.0	This is our annual breakfast table show where we sit with some of our favorite court watchers and try to piece it all back together.
1:19.0	Joining me to talk through this past week, this past month, this past year are of course
1:25.0	Slate's wonderful Mark Joseph Stern the other half of my brain. Hi Mark
1:30.2	Mark. Hi Dahlia. And Dr. Mary Ann Franks, who is the Eugene L and Barbara A Bernard
1:36.5	professor in intellectual property technology and civil rights law
1:40.1	at the George Washington University law school.
1:42.5	She's an internationally recognized expert
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