Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Somewhere, John Roberts is Screaming into an Expensive Pillow
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🗓️ 18 June 2022
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Dahlia Lithwick is joined by CNN legal analyst Joan Biskupic and election law Professor Richard Hasen for what could be called “Amicus: Wheels Coming Off Edition”. We’re still waiting for a bevy of blockbuster decisions, and despite Chief Justice John Roberts’ solemn wish to steady the ship, events at the January 6th select committee seem destined to scupper it. Joan, Rick and Dahlia talk about what’s to come in the most unusual last two weeks of June at the court that any of them can remember.
In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia and Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern on why everybody needs to stop saying “today is the day we get Dobbs” (and why that day is likely to be the last possible day this term), on how this court overturns precedent without overturning precedent, plus Justices Barrett and Gorsuch go at it - some of the time.
Find the What Next episode Mark mentions with Leah Litman here.
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| 0:00.0 | I can't think of anything that this would truly compare to in the modern court's history. |
| 0:10.6 | The point is that the spouse of a Supreme Court justice was actively engaged in trying to overturn the election in multiple pathways. |
| 0:19.9 | Tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis. |
| 0:27.7 | There's a connection between what the January 6th committee is doing right now and the Supreme Court, |
| 0:32.8 | and that connection is actually not Jenny Thomas. |
| 0:38.6 | Hi, and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 0:41.1 | This is Slate's podcast about the Supreme Court and the law. |
| 0:44.7 | That's my beat at Slate. |
| 0:46.0 | I am Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 0:47.7 | And this week was rather a lot. |
| 0:51.3 | We got a whole bunch of new decisions from the Supreme Court. We had two days of January 6 hearings while January 6 denialists were being voted into state election offices. And we got yet more news about, well, you guessed it, Virginia Lamp Thomas, who evidently corresponded, at least via email, with John Eastman, who was the principal legal architect of unconstitutional and illegal efforts to halt the certification of the 2020 election. |
| 1:25.8 | Now, on Thursday night, the select committee that is investigating January 6th sent Ginny Thomas a polite request that she come in and chat with them. She told the daily caller that she would be delighted to stop in and, you know, have a little chinwag. |
| 1:42.0 | Later on in the show, I'm going to be talking with Mark Joseph Stern about a couple of the |
| 1:46.6 | cases the court handed down this week and some trends we're beginning to see toward the end of |
| 1:51.4 | the term. |
| 1:52.5 | And I also talked to him about Dobbs O'Mania that leads a lot of court watchers to insist that |
| 1:57.8 | every decision day is a Dobbs day. |
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