Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for September 16th, 2021.

The Our Patience is Wearing Thin Edition.

I am David Plotz of Citycast in Washington, D.C.

I'm joined by my regular compatriots from New Haven, Connecticut

of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. It is Emily Bazelon. Hello, Emily.

Hi. It's a good game show here this morning. Very exciting. It is. A little bit, a little bit.

And from CBS Sunday morning, from Manhattan, New York City, John Dickerson.

Hello, John.

Hello, David, Emily.

Hello, America.

And America, we should note that we're taping a day early because of Yom Kippur,

so it may be that things are slightly out of date by the time you hear this, but hopefully not too much.

This week, we will talk about President Biden's sweeping new vaccine mandate. Is it legal and will it work?

Then the Supreme Court, the most august of institutions, the most supremo of courts, is it in danger of losing its legitimacy? We're going to talk about

what Justice Breyer and Barrett said this week and the trouble with that Texas abortion case,

abortion ruling. Then Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, the investigative reporters, have a new book,

Peril, which reveals appalling new details about President Trump's efforts to

overturn the election in January and also some alarming things that the chairman of the joint

sheets of staff may have done. Plus, of course, we will have cocktail chatter. And a reminder,

dear listeners, that we've got our conundrum show coming up and we need your conundrums.

What is a conundrum that you have faced in your life,

an ethical quandary, a dilemma, a moral, a moral question? We're going to talk about things like

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