Anita Hill on the Supreme Court’s Future
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
Slate Audio
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Anita Hill to discuss confirmation hearings past and future, the unfinished work of equality, and whether the current Supreme Court can be part of that work.
In our Slate Plus segment, Slate’s senior jurisprudence editor Nicole Lewis and senior writer Mark Joseph Stern discuss the worrying news buried in a shadow docket “win” for redistricting, a unanimous decision Monday, and the judges who seem intent on threatening national security by meddling with the military.
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| 0:00.0 | Why does American democracy look the way it does? |
| 0:02.8 | And how can we make it more responsive to the people it was formed to serve? |
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| 1:05.5 | Changing culture and structures at the same time is hard. |
| 1:09.5 | But we make gains and they're incremental and I get impatient and I worry too. |
| 1:15.5 | But it doesn't stop me from pushing. |
| 1:31.5 | Hi there and welcome to Amicus. |
| 1:33.5 | This is Slate's podcast about the law and the rule of law and the spring court of the courts. |
| 1:39.5 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 1:40.5 | I cover those things at slack.com and we are in this interregnum between President Joe Biden's announcement of Katanji Brown, Jackson, |
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