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The Supreme Court handed down three major decisions on Thursday involving hot-button issues like workplace discrimination, religious freedom, and gun smuggling. Remarkably, all three rulings were unanimous, and each was authored by a liberal justice. The left flank of the court eased the way for “reverse discrimination” claims, expanded religious exemptions from state taxes, and shielded gun companies from a potentially ruinous lawsuit.

On a special Opinionpalooza pop-up episode of Amicus for Slate Plus members, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the liberal justices’ conciliatory approach to these case

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