Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - COVID in the Courtroom
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
Slate Audio
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In the wake of two major vaccine-mandate decisions at the high court this week, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Andy Slavitt, former senior adviser to Biden’s White House pandemic response team. Slavitt was also the acting administrator of the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services from 2015 to 2017. He hosts the In the Bubble podcast, and is the author of Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response.
In our Slate Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Mark Joseph Stern for more analysis of the vaccine cases, plus a look at state efforts to bar participants in the Jan. 6 insurrection from office, several vitally important state Supreme ourt decisions and what they suggest, and the refusal of Neil Gorsuch to mask up at the high court. Sign up for Slate Plus now to listen and support our show.
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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, |
| 0:15.6 | more transparent, 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. |
| 0:36.7 | It's an extraordinary use of emergency power occurring in an extraordinary circumstance. |
| 0:42.8 | A circumstance that this country has never faced before. |
| 0:46.4 | Does that agency have the power to at least say, look, to person next to you, |
| 0:50.9 | they don't have to get vaccinated. |
| 0:52.1 | But if they don't get vaccinated, they should be wearing a mask or they should be getting tested. |
| 0:57.0 | And so, if they were wrong, I mean if they were wrong in that part of the case. |
| 1:04.2 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 1:06.8 | This is Slate's podcast about the law and the rule of law and the court to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 1:13.2 | I cover some of those issues at Slate and we have had a busy new year. |
| 1:17.9 | We've had the anniversary of January 6th with the Justice Department and the January 6th Committee |
| 1:23.9 | working to unearth what really happened and who to hold accountable. |
| 1:28.5 | We've had voting rights on a collision course with the filibuster in the Senate. |
| 1:34.1 | And we had fast track cases about COVID mitigation efforts that were heard last Friday |
| 1:40.6 | decided this past Thursday night at the US Supreme Court. |
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