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Hi and welcome back to Amicus. I'm Dahlia Lithwick and this is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court.

We are about two days out from Donald Trump's inauguration as 47th president of the United States of America.

And whether your mind right now is on TikTok or on how many pushups Pete Hegeseth can do,

or whether it's on the owner's box that is going to contain Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos at the inauguration,

or whether it's on a ceasefire in the Middle East or the devastation from fires in Southern California,

the world as we understand it, is changing in fundamental ways. And the law, as we have understood

it, is also changing in fundamental ways. We are on the brink of mass immigration reform,

perhaps mass deportations, perhaps the use of the military for domestic policing, mass

pardons for violent insurrectionists, and all this amid the end of fact-checking online and therefore

of fact-checking everywhere. On Friday morning, to prove that everything is always in motion,

the Supreme Court, in a unanimous per curiam opinion,

upheld the TikTok ban that, at least theoretically, goes into effect on Sunday, although

President Joe Biden reportedly will not enforce it, and President-elect Donald Trump,

says he's going to fix it, whatever that means. Also on Friday morning,

President Biden declared that he considers the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to be,

quote, the law of the land, an affirmation that does not have any formal force or meaningful

effect. And so we enter this weekend with an actual TikTok ban that may not be

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