Slate Plus Bonus: Carson v Makin
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🗓️ 23 June 2022
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Summary
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern react to the Supreme Court’s decision in Carson v Makin, a blockbuster religious liberty case that sees the court traveling a long way in a short time, and trampling the establishment clause along the way,
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, and this is Amicus, Slate's podcast about the Supreme Court and the Law, and I am |
| 0:14.1 | Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 0:15.1 | I host this podcast, and I cover some of those things for Slate. |
| 0:19.2 | And I wanted to let you know about a bonus segment we're releasing to our Slate Plus members. |
| 0:24.3 | As we process a really blockbuster opinion from the Supreme Court in a religious liberty |
| 0:29.6 | case that, honestly, any other June in any other year would have been reverberating for |
| 0:35.8 | weeks. |
| 0:36.9 | But this is not any other June, and we have a whole bunch of blockbuster cases that are |
| 0:42.2 | coming up. |
| 0:43.5 | So we wanted to jump on this one and get you a little bit of clarity and context about |
| 0:48.9 | today's decision in Carson vs. Make-In. |
| 0:52.8 | Here is a brief snippet of my conversation with Slate's own Mark Joseph Stern. |
| 0:58.4 | This is another one of those Sonya Sotomayor descents, Mark, where she pretty explicitly |
| 1:03.8 | doesn't just dissent from the opinion that she've just us Roberts writes, but she issues |
| 1:10.6 | another warning, both about how fast the court is changing the legal landscape, and also |
| 1:17.4 | she sort of warns about what's to come. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.6 | And this goes back to what I was saying earlier about the parade of horbles that Breyer |
| 1:24.0 | mentions, which I think is spot on, and really kind of leads the reader to question Roberts |
| 1:30.8 | candor in his majority opinion. |
| 1:32.8 | Like, you can't just pretend that this is the end of the road for this campaign when |
| 1:38.1 | there have been so many previous decisions where the majority has pretended like they've |
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