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If Fortis had not been driven off the court through real shenanigans and illegality by Nixon,

that fifth liberal vote would have been there to give poor kids all across America a better start-up height.

Hi and welcome back to Amicus, the Syslates podcast about the courts and the law, the rule of law, voting, and the Supreme Court.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick.

The court heard arguments this week in a couple of cases including a key question about unions.

The court is also back in the news because of new pressure coming from the left

that is being imposed on Justice Stephen Breyer, wanting him to step down immediately and let Joe Biden name his successor,

and also calls by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island for Merrick Garland to reopen the investigation into Brett Kavanaugh

that he feels was not complete at the time of his confirmation.

And we're going to be delving into some of that with our guests this week,

and with the efforts to oust justices from the not so long ago past, tell us that the more things change, the more they don't ever really change at all.

Later on for our slate plus members, Mark Joseph Stern is going to come in to talk about that big union's case at the court,

guns at the ninth circuit, and Georgia's massive pitch to suppress so many votes that Senate Democrats will eventually kill the filibuster.

In addition to an exclusive bi-weekly romp through all of jurisprudence with Mark Stern in the members only segment of this show,

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