Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Strike Zone
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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🗓️ 31 October 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Dahlia previews Foster v. Chatman, a Supreme Court appeal that contends with the problem of racial bias in the process of jury selection. Her guests include Stephen Bright, president of the Southern Center for Human Rights; and Glenn Ivey, a former prosecutor who has joined an amicus brief in support of the man at the center of Foster.Please let us know what you think of Amicus. Our email is amicus@slate.com. Subscribe to our podcast here.Want a transcript of this week’s episode? They’re all available to members of Slate Plus on our show page. If you're not a Slate Plus member, consider becoming one -- members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial here.Amicus is sponsored by The Great Courses, offering a series of lectures about the impact that technology is having on the constitution and our rights. The series—titled "Privacy, Property & Free Speech: Law and the Constitution in the 21st Century"—is available right now at up to 80% off the original price if you visit TheGreatCourses.com/amicus.And by MileIQ. If you’re one of the 60 million Americans who drive for work then you know that your miles are your dollars. Every mile you don’t log is money that you are losing. MileIQ is the only mileage-tracker app that detects, logs, and calculates your miles for you, ensuring that every mile is accounted for and no dollar is lost. Try MileIQ for free today by texting AMICUS to 31996.Podcast production by Tony Field.
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| 0:00.0 | Amicus is sponsored by the Great Courses, offering a series of lectures about the impact |
| 0:05.0 | that technology is having on the Constitution and our rights. |
| 0:08.0 | The series titled Privacy, Property and Free Speech, Law on the Constitution in the 21st |
| 0:13.0 | Century, is available right now at up to 80% off the original price if you visit the |
| 0:18.0 | Great Courses.com slash Amicus. |
| 0:20.0 | That's the Great Courses.com slash Amicus. |
| 0:23.0 | And by Mile IQ, if you're one of the 60 million Americans who drive for work, |
| 0:28.0 | then you know that your miles are your dollars. |
| 0:31.0 | Every mile you don't log is money that you're losing. |
| 0:34.0 | Mile IQ is the only mileage tracker app that detects logs and calculates your miles for you, |
| 0:39.0 | ensuring that every mile is accounted for and no dollar is lost. |
| 0:43.0 | Try Mile IQ for free today by texting Amicus, AMI-CUS, to 319-96. |
| 0:49.0 | That's Amicus to 319-96. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello and welcome to Amicus, Slates Podcasts about the US Supreme Court. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick, Slates Supreme Court correspondent. |
| 1:03.0 | Now next week the Supreme Court is going to hear a major, major case about race and jury selection. |
| 1:10.0 | This is a case with facts so strange it all sounds a little bit like a John Grisham novel. |
| 1:15.0 | Georgia prosecutors seeking to give Black teenager Timothy Tyrone Foster the death penalty |
| 1:21.0 | for the brutal murder of an elderly white woman in 1987, |
| 1:25.0 | managed to eliminate all four prospective African Americans from his jury pool. |
| 1:31.0 | This happened at Wardere, which is the fancy French word for jury selection process. |
| 1:36.0 | Now there are two stages in jury selection where you can get rid of jurors. |
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