With Slow Burn summering in the Amicus feed for the past three weeks, host Susan Matthews joins Dahlia and Mark in the smokeless cigar bar to pick up where Becoming Justice Gorsuch left off in April. They discuss the blockbuster end-of-term Supreme Court decisions that arrived in June—and Neil Gorsuch’s role in them.
Later: Gorsuch recently caught flak from conservatives for saying that America is a “creedal nation”, founded on ideas, not blood. But how does that fit with his vote in the birthright citizenship case, joining Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissent?
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