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Amicus: Politics Masquerading as Law

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🗓️ 12 February 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Dahlia Lithwick interviews Rep. Adam Schiff about his work on the Jan. 6 select committee and his fears for our democracy. Next, Dahlia is joined by pre-eminent election-law scholar Professor Franita Tolson, who clears up any confusion about what happened in the shadow-docket order concerning Merrill v Milligan, which appears to have kicked away the remaining protections of the Voting Rights Act’s Section II. Slate Plus members will have access to Dahlia’s conversation with Mark Joseph Stern about shadow-docket shenanigans and Mark’s new beat: Madison Cawthorne, “everybody’s favorite insurrectionist-adjacent representative.” Podcast production by Sara Burningham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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None of what we are doing is I think unprecedented. You're certainly hearing an

0:39.8

unprecedented amount of complaining by the former president and his

0:44.2

enablers because they don't like what we're finding.

0:50.5

I've pointed to three decisions over the course of 20 years that shows this

0:54.2

low death of the Bowdoin Rights Act. And this Alabama case has to be read in that context.

1:02.7

Hi and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the law and the courts and the

1:08.3

Supreme Court and the rule of law. I am Dalia Lithwick and it's been a pretty weird few weeks

1:14.6

in Washington DC and at the Supreme Court. The GOP is grappling with the fallout from the RNC's

1:21.8

decision to characterize the events of January 6, 2021 as quote, legitimate political discourse.

1:28.5

As the January 6 committee pursues the truth of what that event really did represent,

1:34.7

two stories increasingly tough to reconcile. We are awaiting President Joe Biden's nominee

1:41.0

for a Supreme Court seat soon to be vacated by Justice Stephen Breyer, but in the meantime,

1:47.0

we got an order on Monday evening, halting a major racial redistricting decision

1:53.2

under the Voting Rights Act in Alabama. That order happened on the shadow docket and rather

1:59.2

than explain the reasoning behind it, Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a concurrence that was signed

2:05.4

only by Justice Samuel Alito used that concurrence to, you know, attack the dissenters. Later on in

2:11.8

this show, we're going to talk to Voting Rights expert guru, consummate explainer,

2:17.9

Fernita Tulson, about what if anything remains of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and to help

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