Alabama Double-Dares SCOTUS Over Voting Maps
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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🗓️ 9 September 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Marc Elias, who has litigated more election and voting cases than almost anyone, to talk about Alabama’s disregard for SCOTUS’ decision in the big Voting Rights Act case of last term, and why the lawlessness is the point. They also delve into the dangers of tying the disqualification of former President Donald J Trump from office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the outcomes in his criminal trials. And why, when it comes to defending democracy, depending on the courts may make sense in the short term, but faces serious problems in the long term.
In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern to discuss Justice Samuel Alito’s chosen venue to publish a love letter to Senator Dick Durbin, Chief Justice John Roberts’ chosen venue to publish a love letter to Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and why a major religious freedom case is looking more and more like a fake spike.
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| 0:00.0 | Try to get across and slice it just wide on the post. |
| 0:05.0 | Have they done enough? |
| 0:07.0 | Can they pull it out the bag? |
| 0:09.0 | Does the ref have a clue? |
| 0:11.0 | When you're shouting at the screen, blow your whistle! |
| 0:16.0 | There's no feeling like live TV. |
| 0:19.0 | However you watch, a TV licence is your must-have pass to over 400 live TV channels |
| 0:25.0 | and it also funds the BBC, such TV licence. |
| 0:31.0 | There was a time not that long ago that if you were a Republican legislature |
| 0:38.0 | and you defied a court order, it was bad for your politics. |
| 0:44.0 | Within the Republican Party now, violating court orders, breaking criminal laws |
| 0:50.0 | makes you more popular. |
| 0:52.0 | So if you're an Alabama legislator, of course you're defying the court order. |
| 1:01.0 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 1:03.0 | This is Slates podcast about the courts and the law |
| 1:06.0 | and the rule of law in the Supreme Court and I am Dahlia Lithwick |
| 1:09.0 | and I cover some of those things at the magazine. |
| 1:12.0 | Here at Team Amicus, we really hope you enjoyed your summers and maybe some rest. |
| 1:18.0 | And we hope you didn't miss our Slates Plus segments |
| 1:21.0 | with Mark Joseph Stern too too much. |
| 1:23.0 | Mark is back this weekend and we have lots to talk about |
| 1:27.0 | including Justice Alito's love letter to Dick Durbin |
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