Amicus | The Call Is Coming From Inside The Court

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🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick sits down with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse to dissect the most recent Supreme Court term and its implications. They explore Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's emerging role and influence, the patterns of bias within the court that she’s calling out, and the broader systemic issues facing the judiciary. Their conversation also delves into the “worst possible nominee” for a lifetime appointment to a US court of appeals, Emil Bove. Next, they tackle climate inaction, Democrats’ failure to respond to the billionaire takeover of the Supreme Court, and why Senator Whitehouse is still optimistic about challenging, even fixing, these systems. Want more Amicus? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes with exclusive legal analysis. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Amicus show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 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	Hey, I'm Mark Ronson.
0:03.0	And I'm Ray.
0:04.0	To celebrate 150 years of Out of my PGA, we've teamed up to create something timeless.
0:10.0	A tribute to legacy, rhythm and craft with a very special connection at its heart.
0:15.0	A soundscape from two cities, two perspectives and one shared vision.
0:20.0	Introducing our brand new song, Suzanne.
0:23.1	Susan, I need you.
0:33.2	I'm Dahlia Lithwick.
0:34.7	This is Amicus, Slate's podcast about the courts, the law, and the Supreme Court.
0:44.9	What's dangerous for the right-wing justice is here is that there's a lot to look at. Justice Jackson
0:52.1	has pulled back the curtain to look at stuff outside the immediate
0:55.6	four corners of the question in front of them. That could go a lot of places.
1:10.6	This week, as the dust starts to settle on the Supreme Court term that ended without ever really ending last month,
1:18.8	and also the dust starts to settle on this great big catastrophic budget that is less a budget than a wealth transfer of wealth to the wealthy and also a transfer to
1:32.2	Donald Trump's terrifying army of masked immigration thugs.
1:36.2	We are trying to make meaning and also to find a path forward.
1:41.1	And one of the people on whom we have come to rely for both meaning making and for a
1:46.7	plan is Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of the great state of Rhode Island who has been warning us
1:52.1	about what was happening to the courts and to the Supreme Court long before it became fashionable
1:57.5	to do so and who urged everyone to do something about all this long before
2:03.2	that started to feel next to impossible. Senator White House is the ranking member of the Senate
2:09.2	Environment and Public Works Committee. He's co-chair of the Caucus on International Narcotics Control
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