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Podcast: Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
Episode: SCOTUS Is About to Suffer Buyers Remorse, Again
Description: Our eyes this week were trained on the arguments over birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court on Thursday. While Solicitor General John Sauer advanced wild arguments on behalf of the Trump administration, four of the justices (hint: the women) seemed extremely suspicious of his motives. The five men? Not so much. Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia Lithwick to break down Trump v. CASA Inc. and the growing divide on the court between those who trust this president and those who don’t.Although Thursday’s arguments touched on fundamental rights, SCOTUS made the strange choic...