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It's really a statement about our times. I think that we tend to associate being a kind of eccentric

loner with not being predictable in a partisan or ideological sense. They ask it would make me an

awfully elementary and stupid question. One of the ways you saw his humility the most was how

when he interacted with us he just really conveyed to us that he felt like he could learn from us

as much as we could learn from him. Hi and welcome to Amica Slates podcast about the courts,

the Supreme Court and the law. I'm Dalia Lithwick and I cover those things for Slate and this week

we wanted to bring you our promised episode memorializing Justice John Paul Stevens who served

for 35 years on the Supreme Court and died on July 16th at the age of 99 after suffering a stroke.

Now before we get to Justice Stevens let's note that we are two weeks and change away from the

start of the 2019 term which we will preview in depth next show with Dean Irwin Chemerinsky.

And although the court is not yet formally in session this week the Justice's handed down a

surprise seven to two decision to allow President Trump's asylum ban to go forward that's the

ban that prohibits any migrants who have resided in or traveled through third countries from seeking

asylum in the United States. So the ban will be allowed to stay in effect while this case is

decided in the lower courts. This decision which was not explained by the justices lifted a

lower court stay of the policy and Justice Sonja Sotomayor writing for herself and Ruth Bader Ginsburg

issued a very stinging descent writing quote granting a stay pending appeal should be an

extraordinary act. Unfortunately it appears the government has treated this exceptional mechanism

as a new normal. Historically the government has made this kind of request rarely now it does so

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