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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

When You’re A Justice They Let You Do It

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court is back in session, and conservative controlled body again has a docket full of cases that look like 6-3 wins for the Trump agenda. Guest:  Mark Joseph Stern, co-host of Amicus, and senior writer covering courts and the law for Slate. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh, must be the new parent posse chat. We're not even new. Our kids are eight.

0:05.0

Or, as Eddie says, 96 months. He moved off grid. Can't confirm he's still on grid.

0:11.0

And he's got another one on the way. He won't have the coverage to live stream the birth, will he?

0:16.0

Well, here at Tesco Mobile, we've made sure he has 99% network coverage.

0:21.2

So he could if he wanted to.

0:22.6

Oh, sign me up.

0:24.0

It pays to be connected.

0:25.5

Tesco Mobile, every little helps.

0:27.5

Over 99% UK population coverage on 4G.

0:34.5

Mark, what should we call this conversation today?

0:43.6

I sense, Mary, that you have gleaned from my work with Dahlia Lithwick, that we are strongly opposed to a Supreme Court curtain raiser.

0:53.0

Is that...

0:53.3

Like, allergic to the term, as far as I can tell.

0:56.1

Yes, indeed.

0:58.8

I have lost count of the number of times I've asked Slate's Mark Joseph Stern to tell me what

1:04.6

the Supreme Court is about to do.

1:07.7

Every October, the justices begin their official term on the first Monday of the month.

1:13.2

Year after year, Mark walks me through the docket.

1:15.9

But this is the year.

1:17.6

I learned just how much Mark has begun to hate doing that.

1:23.9

Can I quote you to you?

1:26.0

Please.

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