We've got at the very moment when their credibility needs to be conserved, it's being squandered

with these controversies as we now learn more and more about how they're operating.

We have a minority rule court that is not just imposing minority rule, but is actually shrinking the ability to vote.

John Roberts holds the gamble, but Clarence Thomas holds the power.

Hi, and welcome back to Amicus.

This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the Supreme Court, the law, the rule of law.

I am Dahlia Lithwick. And these days I play journalism, whack-a-mole covering some of those things for Slate,

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