Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Empty Suits
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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🗓️ 7 November 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Amicus’ election law whisperer, UC Irvine election law professor Rick Hasen, to sift through the results, the non-calls, and the many, many lawsuits of this post-election moment.
Then, Dahlia is joined by Jim Zirin, former federal prosecutor and author of Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits, to map out the playbook the president is pulling from today and always--from his Supreme Court picks to all-caps claims of voter fraud.
In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern reports on the big case at the intersection of religious liberty and the right of LGBTQ people to become foster parents that was heard at the Supreme Court this week. And what, if anything, we can draw from Amy Coney Barrett’s first week on the bench (on the phone).
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| 0:00.0 | This ad-free podcast is part of your Slate Plus membership. |
| 0:08.5 | It really doesn't seem that there is a viable legal strategy to get a case to the courts |
| 0:14.2 | that could plausibly serve as like a version, a 2020 version of the 2000 push versus |
| 0:19.6 | score case. You may have lawyers who the 2000 push versus score case. |
| 0:23.8 | You may have lawyers who are willing to take the case. |
| 0:28.5 | I mean, Trump throughout his career found lawyers who were willing to take these cases. |
| 0:36.8 | He found Michael Cohen, who was willing to threaten people with lawsuits or bring lawsuits in order to shut them up. |
| 0:38.8 | And that's the way he always operated. |
| 0:50.1 | Hi, and welcome to Anacus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court. |
| 0:55.6 | And I think at least for the last nine or so months, it's been about voting and elections law. |
| 1:01.3 | Kind of relentlessly. |
| 1:02.8 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 1:03.8 | I cover those things for Slate. |
| 1:06.7 | As of this taping on Friday, the 2020 election is just creeping up to the brink of being called for Joe Biden. |
| 1:15.1 | Has not yet happened. |
| 1:16.7 | Numbers coming in from the remaining states that are in play are, I think, going to serve to establish with certainty that he has won the election, although to be sure |
| 1:31.5 | Donald Trump is continuing to say that he has prevailed in this contest. |
| 1:37.1 | Later on in this show, we're going to talk to James Ziren, his book, Plaintiff in Chief, A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3500 lawsuits, |
| 1:48.4 | sort of set forth the playbook that you're seeing in Donald Trump and his campaign's litigation |
| 1:55.8 | efforts all this week. Slate Plus members are also going to get to hear from the wonderful Mark Joseph Stern about a |
| 2:03.3 | vitally important case argued at the Supreme Court this week, pitting the rights of LGBTQ foster |
| 2:11.3 | parents in Philadelphia against the religious liberties of foster agencies. To become a Slate Plus member, go to slate.com slash amicus plus. |
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