Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 15th, 2021, the Blood Clot Edition.

I am David Plotz of CityCast here in Washington, D.C.C. I'm joined as ever by John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes from New York City. Hello, John Dickerson.

Hello, David. And by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School from New Haven, Connecticut. Hello, Emily.

Hello. Aren't people going to look at the hideous title and think, oh my God, shiver? Well, that's the reaction

I had. Okay. Well, give it a better title. I mean, it's an accurate title. It is the most

important thing happening right now, but it's like a little ghoulish. I've done much more

ghoulish titles. On today's show, should the FDA and CDC have paused distribution of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine

because of rare blood clot issues? Then the trial of Derek Chauvin intersects with the killing

of another black man in the Twin Cities by a police officer. Will this horror ever end?

Then President Biden unveils his ambitious plan to reform the Supreme Court,

which is a commission, a whole commission. Big ass commission, 36 people on that commission.

Yeah, it's a big commission. Four times the size of the Supreme Court. Yeah. But David, did you see

that one of the groups that wants to change the court hired a bus with a banner that read Retire Breyer and drove it past the Supreme Court?

I thought of you when I saw that. A lot of people tweet at me. I don't know why people would send that to me because he's retired. I mean, you guys saw the news about the Google ad campaign where they aired that TV spot in the Masters, which

showed a montage of people doing searches, including former Justice Breyer, dressed in black

robes, typing, what is Star E. Decisus into a search bar, which is so funny that he would

search that. And Breyer, then that quote from Breyer about how he loves Google products and he was being paid only fairly for the ad and that his endorsement had nothing to do, literally nothing to do with the opinion he wrote in Google's favor in that Oracle case, which was his final opinion.

That was pretty amazing.

That was like the whole thing about that ad was so funny.

You didn't see that, Emily?

I didn't see it because it didn't exist, though there was a Google versus Oracle case.

There is not enough construction paper in the world to handle the amount of glue created by this dead horse that you have been beating.

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