Hi, Dahlia Lithwick here, and we are releasing an extra episode of amicus to our Slate Plus subscribers.

Amicus is Slate's podcast about the Supreme Court, the law, the rule of law, democracy.

We're in the middle of a life and death, truly democracy-defining week at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Wednesday morning, the High Court heard arguments in the

Amtala case. That's the cases consolidated into Moyle v. United States about what level of care

pregnant patients can be provided in emergency rooms. On Thursday morning, the High Court will be

hearing Trump v. United States. That's the case in which the

former president will claim a vast sweeping theory of immunity that more or less translates into

when you're the president. They let you do it. You can do anything. Slate's senior legal writer,

Mark Joseph Stern, and I are digging into what happened in the Amtala

arguments Wednesday and looking ahead to Thursday's arguments in the immunity case.

And we're going to share a taste of that conversation right here.

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I guess we just have to take a moment here together to contemplate what we just heard at SCOTUS because it was women justices, including

Amy Coney-Barrant, female Solicitor General, Elizabeth Prelogger, just laying out in the most

graphic, explicit terms, what preeclampsia, nectopic pregnancies and potential liver damage and gushing blood and helicopter

removal to other states looks like while the male justices really fretted about what the

spending clause and reticulated statutes and equity and the Hyde Amendment. Justice Alito really wants

to talk about fetal personhood and also the dictionary. Mark, I can't shake the sense that if

every woman in America had listened to this particular oral argument as it was going down on

...