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I think the Supreme Court hides a lot of mischief and plain sight.

Hi and welcome back to Amicus, Slates podcast about the Supreme Court, the law and the rule of law in the courts.

I'm Dialisquick, I cover those things for Slates.

And as we round up on the month of June, we're getting to that time of the year when big, big decisions rain down from the highest court in the land.

And even before all those decisions come raining down, this past week saw an absolutely huge grant of surgery in an abortion case for next term.

We are watching a Supreme Court that allegedly had meant to stay out of the headlines until after the midterms that is actually now cobbling up the headlines.

And the question remains, why is the court taking such big swings and will it matter?

Later on in the show, we're going to talk to two of the sharpest court watchers out there, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who has been bird-dugging questions about dark money and influence at the court for as long as we've had a show.

And Vox columnist Ian Millheiser, whose new book, The Agenda, How a Republican Supreme Court Is Re-shaping America,

examines the connection between conservative activism at the Supreme Court and the erosion of representative democracy.

In other words, we're going to talk a lot on this show about how that sausage gets made and what we're not seeing when we're not looking hard enough at the courts.

And Mark Joseph Stern is back. Slate Plus members have access to a special bonus segment at the end of the show that will dig deep into all the Supreme Court and indeed other federal court happenings we can't quite cram into the main show.

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