Bill Barr’s American Carnage

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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News Commentary,, Government, News

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🗓️ 12 September 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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What is Bill Barr doing, and why is he doing it? Donald Ayer, former U.S. attorney and principal deputy solicitor general in the Reagan administration and deputy attorney general under George H.W. Bush, on the attorney general’s ideology, how it predates Trumpism, and why it’s so dangerous. In the Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern breaks down the latest voting breakdown in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, the latest Census case dead end, and the stupidity of Trump’s latest SCOTUS list. Sign up for Slate Plus now to listen and support our show. Podcast production by Sara Burningham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:22.0	The combination of Donald Trump as the president and Bill Barr,
0:31.0	as the head of the Justice Department,
0:33.0	this is a combination befitting a banana republic.
0:36.0	And you gotta scratch your head pretty hard and wonder how in the hell we got here.
0:43.0	Hi and welcome back to Amicus.
0:46.0	This is Slate's podcast about the law, the courts, and the rule of law.
0:50.0	I'm Dahlia Lithwick. I write about some of that for Slate,
0:53.0	and this week has been just about as rock-em-socum as it gets in my world.
0:59.0	We've heard from whistleblowers, inspectors, general.
1:03.0	We've heard from federal appellate courts.
1:06.0	And yes, we heard from the journalist who brought down Richard Nixon himself
1:12.0	about malfeasance in the Trump administration.
1:14.0	Imagine fires are raging on the West Coast.
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1:20.0	Coronavirus continues to ravage parts of this country.
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1:25.0	The president has doubts about his generals,
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