I'm Dahlia Withwick.

And I'm Mark Joseph Stern.

And this is Amicus, Slate's podcast about the law and the courts and the Supreme Court.

It's an attack really on the legal system itself in favor of a system that the judges can manipulate to their will.

From where I sit, it really seems to be as straightforward as well.

Previously, it was a Democratic president, and now it's a Republican president.

It all is of a piece to me with a court that is supremely confident in its own infallibility.

Today, we are gathering in a long and storied tradition of Slate's end-of-the-term

breakfast table where we invite some of the smartest court analysts we can find to chew

over whatever it is that the court has left behind.

The term ended Friday, June 27th, with five decisions and one case that will be re-argued in the fall term.

But as we've been warning since the Trump inauguration, you have to listen to the beats

between the notes to fully appreciate what has gone on these past five months.

That means watching what's happening on the emergency docket and reading between the lines of

the written opinions.

Scotus likes to pride itself on showing its work, and we in the press are very well trained

to report on what is visible. But this year, what we don't see

happening on stage is sometimes the real story. And we have an extraordinary brain trust for this

year's breakfast table. Jamel Bowie has served as an opinion columnist at the New York Times

since 2019 offering historical context for today's events.

Before that, Jamel was chief political correspondent right here at Slate.

Sherilyn Eiffel is a civil rights lawyer and founding director of the 14th Amendment Center for

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