Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Amicus: Revenge of the Octogenarians
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
Slate Audio
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2014
⏱️ 33 minutes
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On Ep. 3 of Amicus, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick talks with the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin about his recent interview with President Obama on Obama’s judicial legacy. Then Dahlia welcomes Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer who won last year’s DOMA case U.S. vs. Windsor, and who’s now fighting for same-sex marriage in the South.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Amicus, a new legal podcast from Slate. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Dalia Lithwig, Slate Supreme Court correspondent, and on this third episode of Amicus, we're |
| 0:13.0 | going to talk to two people making news at the High Court this week. |
| 0:16.6 | One is Roberta Kaplan. |
| 0:18.2 | She was Edie Windsor's lawyer in the lawsuit that became United States V Windsor, the Supreme |
| 0:22.8 | Court case, that opened the floodgates to same-sex marriage. |
| 0:26.7 | As of this week, Robbie is also lead counsel in a challenge to the gay marriage ban in Mississippi. |
| 0:32.5 | We're going to talk to her about the long, short, road from the highest court in the land |
| 0:36.8 | to same-sex marriage in the deep south. |
| 0:39.7 | But first, I have the pleasure of being joined by Jeffrey Tuben, staff writer for the New |
| 0:43.3 | Yorker and senior legal analyst for CNN. |
| 0:46.0 | Jeff has a great piece in this week's New Yorker about a big interview he scored with |
| 0:49.8 | President Obama. |
| 0:51.2 | They talked about the president's judicial legacy and the surprising fact that, well, none |
| 0:55.7 | of us were looking, the president managed to appoint an awful lot of liberal judges to |
| 1:00.2 | the federal bench. |
| 1:01.6 | Jeff, welcome to Amicus. |
| 1:03.7 | Hi, Dahlia. |
| 1:04.7 | It is great to have you. |
| 1:06.5 | This was a really interesting kind of big fat interview with the president about all things |
| 1:12.4 | legal. |
| 1:13.4 | But I thought I might start with the question that I came out a little bit scratching my |
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