Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slates Legal Podcast, amicus. If you're listening to this

show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington,

D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.

My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,

including Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice.

All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution,

has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law.

It's been doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the rolling

back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear.

But there's something you can do about it, and we hope you'll join us in D.C. on May 14th

to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation, go to

slate.com slash amicus live for tickets. This podcast contains explicit language.

We do this again the second time.

I was telling my wife coming down, felt like I was getting married.

The familiar baritone voice you just heard belongs to Michael Jordan.

It's January 13, 1999, and he's in a crowded room at the United Center, home of the

NBA's Chicago Bulls.

I am here to announce my retirement from the game of basketball. It won't be another announcement to

baseball or anything to that nature. This winter afternoon in Chicago felt like it

was really truly the end. Jordan's first retirement in 1993 had been a hastily organized affair.

He was 30 then, coming off of an exhausting third straight championship run.

He was also mourning the recent murder of his father, James, and had been dogged

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