My warning, if you will, to corporate America is to stay out of politics.

I mean, if we were playing roulette, it's as if corporate spenders are betting on red and black at the same time.

But in our political system, they're betting on red and blue.

And for me, that is worse.

Hi, and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court and the rule of law.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick, and I cover these things for Slate.

And this week saw a whole lot of action at the Supreme Court, blockbuster ruling for Google in a longstanding fight with Oracle about whether Google committed copyright infringement when it copied little bits of programming language to build its Android operating system.

The court also got a lot of attention when Justice Stephen Breyer delivered a speech at Harvard on Tuesday night,

suggesting that the justices are not political at all and that probably the courts shouldn't be expanded.

Indeed, what I'm trying to do is to make those whose initial instincts may favor important

structural change or other similar institutional changes, such as forms of court package,

think long and hard before they embody those changes in law.

And the week ended with Joe Biden signing an executive order that will create a commission to study questions around structural court reform.

Later on in the show, Slate Plus members are going to have access to my chat with Slate's own Mark Joseph Stern about the slightly worrisome roots of

originalism as a constitutional theory and about Clarence Thomas's anti-big-tech rampage at

the court this week. Something we wanted to button down on this week's show is this

curious connection between the court, corporate speech, corporate speech rights, and the Georgia boycotts.

We've talked a whole bunch about the big omnibus vote suppression bill passed in Georgia last week.

But we wanted to think a little bit more clearly about what connects the boycotts, citizens

united, corporate speech, corporate money, and the court.

And to do that, we have turned to Chara Torres-Spellessi, who thinks and writes really

brilliantly about money in politics.

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