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Amicus: SCOTUS Doesn’t Have To Be This Way

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

So President Biden finally signaled an openness to maybe possibly thinking about Supreme Court reform. Too little, too late, perhaps - but also, desperately needed, certainly. The US Supreme Court views itself as separate and apart from all other courts - including international counterparts. What could Americans learn from other courts? One of the world’s most respected jurists, retired Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, joins Dahlia Lithwick on this week’s Amicus for a very special conversation about the role of constitutional courts in democracy, and where SCOTUS may be veering off track.  Want more Amicus? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock exclusive SCOTUS analysis and weekly extended episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

New Series, those about to die only on prime video.

0:04.0

Let the game spagge!

0:06.0

Win or lose, all must fight to survive.

0:09.0

My son, sure then you can fight.

0:11.0

Enter the arena of the Gladiators starring Anthony Hopkins.

0:15.5

Nothing is more important than our beloved wrong.

0:18.4

From the Director of Independence Day.

0:21.1

The moment is upon us.

0:22.4

Kill or be killed.

0:26.1

Those about to die. Watch now only on prime video.

0:31.6

There seems to be a preternatural unwillingness to look at what other countries are doing in the United States because this is the way we do it and we don't have anything to learn from anyone else, which is an odd way of thinking

0:45.6

about judging because, I mean, is there really nothing you can learn including what you don't

0:52.4

want to impose in your own court.

0:54.4

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

1:05.5

Supreme Court and sometimes justice I'm Dahlia Lithwick I cover those things for

1:10.6

Slate since last we, former President Donald Trump

1:14.4

survived an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania before heading to

1:17.9

the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and announcing JD Vance as his running mate.

1:23.7

Meanwhile, current President Joe Biden said he was absolutely staying in the race,

1:28.5

while more and more whispers from more and more senior Democrats, suggesting he really should not stay in the race made their way

1:35.0

into the ears of national political reporters.

1:38.4

Biden said he would not step down unless God himself told him to or perhaps doctors told him he has a medical condition,

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