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Hello and welcome to Amicusicus Slate's podcast about the U.S. Supreme Court.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick-S. Supreme Court correspondent.

And this week saw the close of the 2014 term with decisions in two cases at least that we've

talked about on this show.

In one, the court limited

the reach of the Clean Air Act because the agency had failed to do a cost analysis in an

emissions regulation. It also allowed the use of medazolum, one of the drugs used in the

lethal injection protocol in Oklahoma. The term ended last Monday with a lot of very strange friction and anger between the

justices, and they have now scattered to their various summer haunts. This scattering could not

have happened too soon for some of them. And we're going to talk to Mark Stern, who covers

the court for Slate, and to Christian Turner of the University of Georgia a little bit later in the show about the optics and the weirdness of the last few days.

But first we're going to talk to Kenji Yoshino about some of the fallout from Obergefell, last week's marriage equality decision.

Kenji teaches at NYU Law School and he recently published Speak Now, Marriage Equality on Trial,

a remarkable account of the Prop 8 trial in California.

That was the other case that wasn't the DOMA case that came up to the Supreme Court

that questioned whether marriage was a constitutional right, and the court was not ready to decide it at that time. I should just

note for listeners that we reached Kenji way off the grid. Like most of the justices, he's gone to

some undisclosed underground location, and so we apologize in advance for the quality of the

recording. Kenji, welcome to Amicus. Thanks so much for having me, Dahlia.

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