This policy has no legitimate government justification and in fact is only intended to render

trans men and women second-class citizens.

I don't think that the entirely appropriate arrest of the president's friend of 40 years

is the triggering mechanism for concerns about federal arrests.

Hi and welcome back to Amicus.

This is Slates Podcast about the Supreme Court, the courts and the rule of law.

I'm Dialis Week and I covered some of those things for Slate magazine and there is just

a whole lot of news on every one of those fronts this week.

The Supreme Court itself seems to have roused itself from its relatively slumberous,

a tummnal state to do some kind of attention grabby things these past few days.

Just last week the court agreed to take on what may prove to be its first major gun rights

case since the court ruled in 2008 and then again in 2010 that with certain exceptions

the government could not prohibit people from having handguns in their homes for self-protection.

And as we taped this episode the court is actually deciding whether to get involved with

the case out of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that essentially just nullified the Supreme

Court's ruling in whole women's health fee hell or stat in 2016.

The justices are being asked by plaintiffs to reverse the federal appeals court decision

to uphold a Louisiana law that's almost identical to the Texas law, the justices found

unconstitutional.

If the high court declines to get itself involved courts around the country are going to be

emboldened to just act as though a whole women's health no longer has the force of law.

Stay tuned.

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