Amicus Extra: Antonin Scalia's Death
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The sudden death on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday has unleashed huge shockwaves in both the presidential race and the legal community. Luckily, Slate has podcasts covering both areas. In this special joint episode, Amicus host Dahlia Lithwick joins Political Gabfest panelists Emily Bazelon and David Plotz to look at all the possible repercussions of Scalia’s death.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.9 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Slate Political Gab Fest and the Amicus |
| 0:15.3 | Gab Fest, or the Amicus podcast, I should say, for Valentine's Day Sunday, February 14th, 2016. |
| 0:22.8 | We are, of course, here because Justice Anson and Scalia died yesterday, and so we've gathered |
| 0:29.7 | Emily Bazelon of the Political Gab Fest in the New York Times and Dahlia Lithwick, post of Amicus |
| 0:35.6 | and Slate's chief legal correspondent. I think that's your title, Dahlia, to talk Post of Amicus and Slate's chief legal correspondent. |
| 0:37.7 | I think that's your title, Dahlia. |
| 0:39.2 | To talk about Justice Scalia, about his record as a justice |
| 0:43.2 | and about what is going to happen on the court and in politics, |
| 0:47.6 | now that we have an eight-person Supreme Court. |
| 0:50.9 | So Dahlia, let's start with you. |
| 0:52.7 | You sat in the Supreme Court many times and watched |
| 0:55.8 | Justice Scalia just describe a little bit for those of us who never saw him in action what he was like in the court. |
| 1:04.0 | Honestly, he was exactly the way we all imagine him, larger than life, colorful, kind of giggling at his own humor, often just |
| 1:14.6 | kind of the bon vivant, but also a little bit of the truant kid. |
| 1:18.5 | Ha, ha, look at me. |
| 1:19.5 | I'm funny, funny, funny. |
| 1:21.1 | He was just a character on a court where, you know, for a long time, you couldn't tell Justice Souter, Stevens, Kennedy, they all looked the same. |
| 1:31.3 | They all talked the same. And then there was just this big bombastic guy in the middle. And that's what he was. He was exactly the way, if you even saw him for one minute when he was shilling a book or on TV, he was exactly that guy. |
| 1:46.7 | What was your favorite moment of him in an argument that you can remember? |
| 1:50.7 | Oh, man. |
| 1:52.4 | That's not even... |
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