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Slate's dolly-alithic didn't expect to be talking about a Supreme Court opinion this week.

She was off to a conference, but then, you know, my phone started going ping, ping, ping, ping, ping,

ping, and like most people, I just, I really thought my first impulse was Politico got worked.

Like it's just not possible because this has never happened.

And the leaked opinion that Politico dropped this week is big. Just as Samuel Alito

arguing that Roe vs Wade, the president that makes getting an abortion legal in this country,

should be overturned. To see in 98 page draft opinion with all the appendices, with the stamp of

the court on it in advance of a decision day is absolutely unprecedented.

Yeah, it was a tremendous flex to drop the entire draft opinion because you can't look at it and

not think like, oh yeah, that's a draft opinion. Yeah, I want to be really clear. I mean, I've known

Josh Gerstein for a long time. Josh Gerstein, he's the guy who reported this.

He's one of the two at Politico who published it and my after my first thought, which was this

can't be true, was if Josh has it, you know, this is a credible enough source for me. And as you

say, once you looked at it, this was meticulously researched. This is not, you know, if somebody was

doing a deep fake, this was an extraordinary deep fake. Dear listener, this was not a deep fake.

The Supreme Court confirmed that this opinion, while not final, is the real deal drawn up back

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