Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Trump Indictment
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🗓️ 4 February 2020
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Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern join forces again for an urgent look at Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of former President Donald J Trump. Trump is facing 37 counts in seven charges in the case concerning his mishandling of classified documents, and trying to cover up that mishandling.
Then, Dahlia is joined by Amicus’ election law guiding light, Professor Richard L Hasen, for a close look at the big and shocking voting rights case decided at the Supreme Court this week. Professor Hasen takes us through the fascinating backstory of the case and what Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion in Allen v Milligan can tell us about another big elections case Moore v Harper, and what we might be able to expect in the affirmative action decision that will also be coming down in the next couple of weeks.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, an indict moves unsealed, charging Donald J. Trump with felony violations of our national security laws as well as participating in a conspiracy to instruct justice. |
| 0:15.0 | I invite everyone to read it full to understand the scope and the gravity of the crimes charged. |
| 0:24.0 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 0:30.0 | This is Slate's podcast about the law and the |
| 0:36.1 | Supreme Court and the rule of law I'm Dahlia Lithwick I cover that for |
| 0:41.6 | slate this is the Saturday Edition and we are coming right now to the end of one of the single most important weeks in American legal history. |
| 0:52.0 | Special Counsel Jacksmith released an initial in American legal history. |
| 0:52.5 | Special Counsel Jacksmith released an indictment |
| 0:55.6 | describing how former President Donald J. Trump |
| 0:58.8 | kept highly classified documents concerning |
| 1:01.5 | nuclear programs and attack plans after he left the White House, |
| 1:05.7 | then lied about it, and obstructed law enforcement officers attempting to recover them. |
| 1:11.6 | In a moment I'm going to be joined by a slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern to sort through |
| 1:16.3 | that indictment which was unsealed Friday afternoon. |
| 1:20.3 | Later on in the show we're going to go beyond our initial quick-turn reactions and analysis of Thursday's |
| 1:25.7 | big Voting Rights Act case and kind of get under the hood to understand what made it tick, |
| 1:31.1 | what it did and did not achieve. |
| 1:33.4 | And we're going to do that with our election law explicator |
| 1:36.8 | and chief professor Richard L. Hasam of UCLA. |
| 1:40.9 | But first, after Donald Trump live blogged a lot of feelings and all caps on truth |
| 1:47.0 | social Thursday night about an imminent indictment, Special Counsel Jacksmith made this brief statement Friday afternoon confirming |
| 1:55.2 | that the former president is being charged with felony violations of US |
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