Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - SCOTUS Wraps, Precedent Collapses, and KBJ Takes her Oath
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🗓️ 2 July 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
The term is over, and the ground upon which all Americans stood, has fundamentally shifted. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Dorothy Roberts to discuss the reality of forced birth and family separation upon marginalized peoples in America. Dorothy is the author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, and of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty.
Then, Dahlia talks to Amy Westervelt of Drilled podcast to find out what West Virginia v EPA means for climate action, and the places the Biden Administration could still make progress.
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| 0:30.0 | Hi and welcome to Amicus. |
| 0:39.0 | This is Slate's podcast about the law and the rule of law and the Supreme Court. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Dialithwick and I cover the courts for Slate. |
| 0:48.0 | This past Thursday saw the end of the most important term in modern Supreme Court history. |
| 0:54.0 | Gavling the term to a close amidst street protests, the arrests of protesters, |
| 1:00.0 | legitimacy questions around the courts, scandals around judicial spouses, |
| 1:04.0 | and the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer and the swearing in of Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, |
| 1:10.0 | the first black woman in the Supreme Court's history. |
| 1:14.0 | Hi Katanji Brown Jackson, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States |
| 1:22.0 | against all enemies foreign and domestic. |
| 1:25.0 | That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. |
| 1:32.0 | On the way to this week, the court has brought us the end of Roe v. Wade, |
| 1:37.0 | the demise of lemon versus curtsman, the impossibility of enforcing Miranda warnings, |
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