And if we want to be coherent in complaining that we have a president who has no respect

for the Constitution, then we have to take seriously the design of that Constitution.

It's not designed to remove a president just because we become terribly unhappy with his

values.

Hi and welcome to Amicus Slates podcast about the courts, the Supreme Court and the Rule of

Law.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick and I cover many if not most of those things for Slate and this week

the Supreme Court handed down a very big deal of a ruling in an employee rights case,

Epic Systems Court versus Lewis in its five to four decision delivered Monday and authored

by Neil Gorsuch.

The majority ruled that companies can use the arbitration clauses and employment contracts

to bar their workers from banding together to take legal actions over all sorts of workplace

issues including wage theft, sexual harassment or discrimination based on race, gender and

religion.

Now, just as Gorsuch rooted his decision for the majority in a very narrow reading of

the Federal Arbitration Act, the practical effect of this ruling will just be to make it

harder for workers to get out from under their mandatory arbitration clauses.

And these are relatively new arrangements in 1992, only about 2% of non-unionized employers

in the US used these clauses.

Today more than half of them do, this week's ruling could affect some 25 million employment

contracts nationwide.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writing for herself and the courts liberal wing wrote in her descent

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