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🗓️ 3 May 2023
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0:00.0 | The Supreme Court might stand as an impediment to passing laws that are necessary to promote |
0:13.8 | a free and fair election system. |
0:21.2 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. |
0:23.6 | This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the rule of law. |
0:27.6 | I am Daniel Esquick and I cover those things for Slate magazine. |
0:32.1 | And we're going to drop in on this off week for the show because with all the excitement |
0:36.5 | around Judge Katangi Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court last week, we ended |
0:42.1 | up having to spike a conversation that feels simultaneously incredibly urgent and also |
0:47.6 | depressingly evergreen. |
0:49.1 | And that is a conversation about free speech, full speech and disinformation and misinformation. |
0:56.8 | We want to talk about it in part because it is the driver of so much election denialism, |
1:03.6 | the collapse of institutions ranging from the media to government because amid the horrifying |
1:10.5 | news from Ukraine and the pandemic, the phenomenon of what our guest Rick Hassan calls, quote, |
1:17.8 | cheap speech makes it ever more difficult to fully understand what is happening or why, |
1:24.6 | or to know whether you can trust what you hear and even what you see. |
1:29.9 | Slate plus members are going to have access to an extended version of this interview. |
1:33.9 | And if you're not a Slate plus member, you can join us at Slate.com slash Amicus plus |
1:39.5 | to access bonus content, add free versions of all of Slate's shows plus members never |
1:45.0 | hit a paywall on the website. |
1:47.7 | That Slate.com slash Amicus plus. |
1:51.5 | And so now onto our guest, Richard Hassan is well known to listeners of this show. |
1:57.0 | He is Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine School of Law. |
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