Hi and welcome to Amicus. This is Slates Podcast about the law and the rule of law and

the Supreme Court. I'm Dialithwick and I cover the courts for Slate. This past Thursday

saw the end of the most important term in modern Supreme Court history, gavalling the

term to a close amid street protests, the arrests of protesters, legitimacy questions

around the courts, scandals around judicial spouses, and the retirement of Justice

Stephen Breyer and the swearing in of Justice Katanji Brown-Jackson, the first black woman

in the Supreme Court's history.

Hi Katanji Brown-Jackson, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution

of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.

That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign

and domestic.

On the way to this week, the Court has brought us the end of Roe v. Wade, the demise of lemon

versus kirtzman, the impossibility of enforcing Miranda warnings, and the ascendancy of new

gun rights. On Thursday, the last two cases of the term came down in a kind of split the

baby match set, small win for the Biden administration on the remain in Mexico policy, and a loss

for the EPA's effort to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

On the way out the door, the Court agreed to hear a North Carolina case about the independent

state legislature doctrine. This is a Hail Mary Legal Theory that could throw the

2024 election into chaos.

Later on in the show, we will be talking to Amy Westervelt. She's an investigative journalist

who focuses on climate and the systems and interests working against climate justice,

about how the sausage of the West Virginia versus EPA case got made, and what it signals

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