Hi Dahlia Lethwick 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 US Supreme Court.

Wednesday morning, the High Court heard arguments

in the Emptala case, that's the cases consolidated

into Moil versus 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 of legal writer Mark Joseph Stern and I are digging into what happened in the Emmptala 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

SCODAS because it was women justices including Amy Coney Barrett, female solicitor general, Elizabeth

pre-logger, just laying out in the most graphic explicit terms, what pre-Clypsia

and ectopic pregnancies and potential liver damage and gushing blood and helicopter

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

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