Amicus Extra: Antonin Scalia's Death

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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🗓️ 15 February 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The sudden death on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday has unleashed huge shockwaves in both the presidential race and the legal community. Luckily, Slate has podcasts covering both areas. In this special joint episode, Amicus host Dahlia Lithwick joins Political Gabfest panelists Emily Bazelon and David Plotz to look at all the possible repercussions of Scalia’s death. Transcripts of Amicus are available to Slate Plus members. Consider signing up today! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today here. Please let us know what you think of Amicus. Our email is amicus@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:10.4	Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Slate Political Gap Fest and the Amicus
0:16.0	Gap Fest or the Amicus Podcast.
0:17.6	I should say for Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14, 2016, we are of course here because
0:24.6	Justice Anson and Leah died yesterday and so we've gathered Emily Bazlon of the Political
0:32.2	Gap Fest and New York Times and Dahlia Lithwick, Post-Avamicus and Slate's Chief Legal
0:37.0	Correspondent and I think that's your title, Dahlia.
0:39.4	To talk about Justice Scalia about his record as a Justice and about what is going to happen
0:45.8	on the court and in politics now that we have a person Supreme Court.
0:51.0	So Dahlia, let's start with you.
0:52.8	You sat in the Supreme Court many times and watched Justice Scalia just describe a little
0:58.6	bit for those of us who never saw him in action what he was like in the court.
1:03.9	Honestly, he was exactly the way we all imagine him.
1:08.5	Larger than life, colorful, kind of giggling at his own humor.
1:13.8	Often just kind of the bon vivant but also a little bit of the truant kid.
1:18.5	Look at me, funny, funny, funny.
1:21.2	He was just a character on a court where for a long time you couldn't tell Justice's
1:28.4	suitor, Stevens, Kennedy, they all looked the same, they all talked the same and then
1:32.8	there was just this big bomb, bastard guy in the middle and that's what he was.
1:38.5	He was exactly the way if you even saw him for one minute when he was showing a book
1:43.2	or on TV.
1:44.5	He was exactly that guy.
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