Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Did John Roberts Really Just Save Voting Rights?
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🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This episode is a part of Opinionpalooza. Slate’s coverage of Supreme Court decisions. Thank you to our Slate Plus members for making this episode available to all listeners. The full version of this episode is now exclusively available to our Slate Plus members. If you want to have access to bonus content like this, go to slate.com/amicusplus to become a member.
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern join forces for this Opinionpalooza extra episode of Amicus discussing a seismic Supreme Court decision on voting rights. In his majority opinion in Allen v Milligan, Chief Justice John Roberts pushes back against his own long-standing stance on voting rights. Join Dahlia and Mark in this bonus episode to find out why.
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| 0:35.1 | Hi and welcome to Amicus. |
| 0:37.0 | This is Slates podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court and I'm Dahlia |
| 0:41.6 | Lefwyck. |
| 0:42.6 | I cover those things for Slate and I'm about to be joined by Senior writer Mark Joseph |
| 0:47.6 | Stern, my writer and die person through all things opinion, Paloza. |
| 0:53.4 | We're going to bring you this emergency edition of Amicus in the wake of a big and unbelievably |
| 0:58.7 | surprising decision that came down from the court Thursday morning to not further |
| 1:03.8 | eviscerate what's left of the Voting Rights Act. |
| 1:07.1 | These extra episodes would usually be reserved for Slate Plus subscribers only, but we've |
| 1:12.3 | lifted the paywall for a limited time to make sure absolutely everybody has a chance to |
| 1:17.8 | keep up with this really monumentally important term and the barrage of decisions coming down |
| 1:25.0 | in the coming weeks from the high court. |
| 1:27.0 | But we do rely on your support to do all this, so please consider becoming a subscriber |
| 1:32.5 | to Slate Plus to support our mission of creating a new kind of Supreme Court coverage by going |
| 1:37.9 | to Slate.com slash Amicus Plus and Plus members. |
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