“A crock of sh*t” is how one grand juror described the Trump Justice Department’s case against the Broadview Six in newly released transcripts. Prosecutors dropped all charges against Chicago anti-ICE protestors a couple of months ago. Since then, a steady trickle of evidence of prosecutorial misconduct has turned into this week’s deluge in the form of the newly released grand jury transcripts. In this week’s bonus episode exclusively for Slate Plus members, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern talk about the damning transcripts that reveal a Justice Department gone rogue.

Next, they turn to this week at the Supreme Court and a decision in a case that might not have made headlines but is an excellent primer for how the Roberts majority sees itself in the American constitutional firmament: always at the top. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent makes clear that she has fully clocked this power grab and she is sounding the alarm.

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