Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Amicus: Let's Salsa with Sotomayor
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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🗓️ 18 October 2014
⏱️ 31 minutes
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On Ep. 2 of Amicus, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick and former acting solicitor general Walter Dellinger discuss the Surpreme Court’s recent non-decisions about abortion and voter I.D. laws. Then Dahlia talks with Joan Biskupic, author of a new biography of Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Amicus, a new legal podcast from Slate. I am Dahlia Lithuick, Slate's |
| 0:10.4 | extremely weary Supreme Court correspondent. And on this, our second episode of Amicus, |
| 0:15.9 | we're going to talk about the Court's extracurricular activity this week, including a big, big |
| 0:20.0 | decision to allow an injunction in Texas that will continue keeping open clinics that |
| 0:25.2 | were facing closure across the state. And we'll parse what on first glance might seem to |
| 0:30.0 | be contradictory actions around voter ID laws across the country. And finally, we'll be joined |
| 0:35.1 | by Supreme Court correspondent Joan Biscupic to discuss her brand new biography of Justice Sonia |
| 0:40.0 | Sotomayor. And I'm delighted to say that joining me for this episode of Amicus is Walter Dellinger, |
| 0:46.6 | who was acting solicitor general in the Clinton administration, is a partner in the appellate |
| 0:51.8 | practice at O. Melvany and Myers, and who has become my own long-term partner in crime at Slate |
| 0:58.0 | for the end of every Supreme Court term. Walter has argued a bajillion cases in front of the Supreme |
| 1:03.6 | Court. He knows it as well as anyone, and I'm delighted to have you here. Thank you, Walter, for |
| 1:08.7 | joining us on Amicus. And thank you, Dahlia, though. You are really an Amicus, I think. |
| 1:14.7 | An Amicus, it's the feminine form. But go ahead. Really? We're going to start with Latin. |
| 1:19.5 | Okay. Walter, the first question I have for you is, this past two weeks at the court is best |
| 1:27.3 | characterized by the court secretly, silently unsigned, incomprehensibly emergency action that nobody |
| 1:35.6 | understands. So there are cases being argued, I suppose, but what really seems to be happening is |
| 1:41.5 | that core questions about voting laws, same-sex marriage, and now abortion regulations are being |
| 1:48.0 | decided in secret with unexplained stays and unsigned orders. So what is going on, Walter? What |
| 1:54.9 | is the court doing up there? And why are we all being sort of swayed by these voices in our heads |
| 2:02.3 | at the Supreme Court that are not actually briefing, arguing, or deciding any cases? |
| 2:08.5 | Well, I think it's actually not as confusing as it seems in the sense that a court always has to |
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