The Law v Lawless Edition
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
Slate Audio
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🗓️ 10 September 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Dahlia is joined by Mary Trump and Norm Ornstein to discuss how a single Trump-appointed judge’s attempt to stick a fork in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into potential mishandling of classified materials is part of a systemic story about American justice. And they discuss the kinds of reform needed to protect democracy and repair the judiciary. And how to handle our collective trauma so we can get it all done.
In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Mark Joseph Stern to talk about lawlessness at Mar a Lago, whether lawlessness at Mar-a-Lago, the Texas judge whose order this week nominally aims to cut access to HIV preventative medications, but is also setting his sights (again) on cratering the Affordable Care Act, and they probe if the current outbreak of reckless judging can be inoculated or will continue to spread unchecked.
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| 0:35.5 | He finds enablers in the judiciary everywhere. |
| 0:42.4 | One of the few positive things Donald has done is shine a very bright light on the extent |
| 0:49.3 | to which all of our systems are broken and the ways in which they're weak. |
| 0:59.2 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 1:01.2 | This is Slates Podcast about the courts and the law, the Supreme Court, and suddenly the |
| 1:05.7 | law of special masters. |
| 1:08.2 | I'm Dahlia Lefouik. |
| 1:09.2 | I cover the law for Slates. |
| 1:11.2 | And even though on this show we've spent the summer gorging on great books, we are |
| 1:15.6 | not blind to the fact that the former president of the United States kept classified documents |
| 1:21.4 | at his golf club, refused to return them, lied about it, and may or may not have exposed |
| 1:26.9 | like you know sources and methods as well as nuclear secrets of allies or enemies. |
| 1:32.5 | As one does in the summer, this show returns this to an old favorite theme, the law of |
| 1:39.2 | Trump or does such a thing even exist. |
| 1:42.6 | We're on in the show, Slate Plus subscribers will delight to the delicit tones of our |
| 1:48.9 | own Mark Joseph Stern. |
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