Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Jan. 6: The Coup That Wasn’t, but Still Could Be
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
Slate Audio
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Almost a year later, are we seeing signs of some sort of accountability for the Jan. 6 insurrection? And why is that accountability so important and yet so hard to achieve? Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics, Shaub currently leads the Project on Government Oversight’s ethics initiative.
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| 0:33.8 | While Trump had us on a highway to authoritarianism at 120 miles an hour, Biden has slowed the |
| 0:40.4 | car to six or 15 miles an hour, but he has not turned the car round in the other direction. |
| 0:46.0 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law. |
| 0:54.9 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick and I cover those things for Slate. |
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