Hi, I'm this is Amicus, Slate's podcast about the Supreme Court and the Law, and I am

Dahlia Lithwick.

I host this podcast, and I cover some of those things for Slate, and I wanted to let you

know about a bonus segment we're releasing to our Slate Plus members as we process a

really blockbuster opinion from the Supreme Court in a religious liberty case that honestly

any other June in any other year would have been reverberating for weeks.

But this is not any other June, and we have a whole bunch of blockbuster cases that are

coming up, so we wanted to jump on this one and get you a little bit of clarity and context

about today's decision in Carson vs. Make-In.

Here is a brief snippet of my conversation with Slate's own Mark Joseph Stern.

This is another one of those Sonya Sotomayor Descent's mark, where she pretty explicitly

doesn't just dissent from the opinion that she've just disrobed rights, but she issues

another warning, both about how fast the court is changing the legal landscape, and also

she sort of warns about what's to come.

Yeah, and this goes back to what I was saying earlier about the parade of Horrible's

The Brire mentions, which I think is spot on, and really kind of leads the reader to question

Robert Scander in his majority opinion.

Like, you can't just pretend that this is the end of the road for this campaign when

there have been so many previous decisions where the majority has pretended like they've

pushed things as far as they're going to go, and then just push further and further.

And Sotomayor is saying quite correctly that the court has essentially repealed the establishment

clause.

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