Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Anita Hill on the Supreme Court’s Future
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🗓️ 12 March 2022
⏱️ 56 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 | Changing culture and structures at the same time is hard. But we make gains and they're incremental, and I get impatient and I worry too, but it doesn't stop me from pushing. |
| 0:33.0 | Hi there, and welcome to Amicus. |
| 0:38.2 | This is Slate's podcast about the law and the rule of law and the Supreme Court and the courts. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 0:42.4 | I cover those things at slate.com. And we are in this interregnum between President Joe Biden's announcement of Katanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court and her confirmation hearings that are |
| 0:57.1 | going to begin in just a bit over a week. We were trying to think about who our absolute |
| 1:02.9 | dream pick would be to discuss this truly historic moment. And we just decide to take a flyer and ask Anita Hill, who in so many, |
| 1:13.9 | many ways, is a trailblazer on big, big issues around race and justice and accountability and |
| 1:21.9 | gender. And she said yes. And we're going to be hearing from her in just a moment later on in the show slate plus members |
| 1:30.3 | are going to have access to our special extra bonus segment and this week's amicus plus segment |
| 1:36.7 | is going to feature a conversation between slate senior jurisprudence editor Nicole lewis we've talked |
| 1:42.6 | to her before in slate plus and of course my wingman, |
| 1:45.6 | Mark Joseph Stern, who covers the law for Slate. And they're going to talk about all the things that are |
| 1:50.2 | happening at the court that we couldn't get to in the main show, including a shadow docket |
| 1:56.0 | near miss for federal elections and a big unanimous decision in a case concerning the Armed Career Criminal Act that landed on Monday. |
| 2:05.1 | If you are not a Slate Plus member, you can always sign up at slate.com slash amicus plus. |
| 2:11.0 | Membership gets you access to lots and lots of cool stuff like ad-free podcasts and never hitting a paywall at Slate. |
| 2:18.2 | And your membership, of course, supports all the work we do here at the magazine. |
| 2:23.0 | Thank you, as always, for that. |
| 2:25.1 | So go to slate.com slash amicus plus to sign up. |
| 2:29.8 | But now, Professor Anita Hill. |
| 2:32.3 | So I guess I will just say that Anita Hill needs absolutely no introduction. |
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