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Amicus | When Unaccountable People Come for Your Vote

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🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Civil rights are under attack. The Supreme Court seems to have its sights set on the Voting Rights Act. The Trump administration, meanwhile, is taking every issue to the court knowing that it will never have to face accountability there. And with states like Texas considering unpopular redistricting plans, the administration may never face it at the ballot box either. Put more bluntly, many of our elected officials are operating with a perceived immunity from accountability of any sort. This week Dahlia spoke about the deleterious effects of these actions on voting rights with Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. They discuss the damage done to our civil rights by the current Department of Justice, and what we can learn about accountability from recent developments in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.  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

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0:05.5

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0:11.3

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0:16.9

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0:21.1

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0:26.4

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0:30.2

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0:56.8

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1:04.7

I'm Dahlia Lithwick, and this is Amicus, Slate's podcast about the courts, the law, and the Supreme Court.

1:14.9

All of this is about power.

1:17.0

All of it is about the protection of power but for a single person.

1:21.6

And that is the person that is Donald Trump.

1:37.3

Yeah. It is really hard to look at the ways in which President Donald Trump and his Republican Party are willing to break rules, norms, institutions, and break the law, without concluding they

1:46.4

actually have zero fear that someday Democrats will wield all those powers against them.

1:54.2

Put more bluntly, they are not behaving like people who believe they will ever face accountability at the ballot box.

2:02.7

A perceived immunity from accountability of any sort ever is finding expression in so many of the destructive acts of this second Trump administration.

2:14.0

Last week we focused on the immigration piece of that rampage.

2:18.1

This week, we wanted to turn our attention to civil rights.

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