Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - 2021 Was a Direct Response to 2020
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
Slate Audio
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🗓️ 1 January 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to reflect on the past year and her time at the head of the legendary civil rights organization as she prepares to step down in spring 2022.
In our Slate Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern for the “Amicus Plus 2021 Hangover Edition,” in which they run down their biggest headaches from 2021 and look for signs of hope in the courts and the legal system for 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | Why does American democracy look the way it does? |
| 0:02.8 | And how can we make it more responsive to the people it was formed to serve? |
| 0:06.8 | Democracy Decoded, a podcast by Campaign Legal Center, |
| 0:10.4 | examines our government and discusses innovative ideas that could lead to a stronger, more transparent, |
| 0:16.8 | accountable and inclusive democracy. |
| 0:19.4 | In season two, host Simone Leeper covers everything you need to know about voting in the US. |
| 0:24.9 | Listen to the latest season at democracydecoded.org or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:35.9 | This is just our time and you know the question is are we good for it? |
| 0:40.6 | I ask myself that question every day because I'm tired as hell. |
| 0:43.1 | Every morning I wake up and I'm like yep I'm in you know because we don't have a choice. |
| 0:55.4 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slates Podcast about the law and the courts. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm Dalia Lyswick. I cover those things for Slates and this is our new year's day Amicus special. |
| 1:08.8 | So from us to you and yours happy 2022 wishing you and everyone around you a happy, |
| 1:16.4 | healthy, better year. Later on the show Slate Plus members will get to hear me and Mark Joseph |
| 1:23.5 | Stern rank our biggest jurisprudential hangovers from 2021 but there will be a moment maybe |
| 1:31.9 | two of joy in there I promise. That segment is accessible only to Slate Plus members. Thank you |
| 1:39.0 | as always for your support. It's the support we need right now to do the work we do. If you are |
| 1:44.5 | not a member you can sign up at slate.com slash amicus plus and access bonus content like my |
| 1:52.6 | conversations with Mark. Add free versions of all of Slates Network of Podcasts and you will never |
| 1:59.2 | hit a paywall on the website and it's just a dollar for your first month. That is slate.com slash |
| 2:07.2 | amicus plus and as always always always thank you for supporting the journalism that we do. |
| 2:13.2 | For this episode we wanted to reflect on all that has changed just this past year year two |
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