Bonus: Time to Celebrate Some Wins
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🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Dahlia Lithwick is on the road with Amicus and Lady Justice. In this bonus episode, she’s joined by Loyola Law Professor, legal commentator and columnist Jessica Levinson for a conversation about what we can learn from the women lawyers who held the line during the Trump years, and how to respond to the steady drum beat of “Lock Her Up” threatening women around America today.
The conversation is available in full for Slate Plus members.
Dahlia’s new book Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America,
Lady Justice is also available as an audiobook, and Amicus listeners can get a 25% discount by entering the code “AMICUS” at checkout. :https://books.supportingcast.fm/lady-justice
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Amicus Slate's podcast about the Supreme Court, the law, and the rule of law. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick, and I have a special announcement for you today. |
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| 0:40.6 | Supreme Court decisions. Our shows also discuss what makes a song a smash, analyze what's |
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| 1:05.5 | Again, that's just $29 for six months through October 28th. So sign up now at slate.com slash amicus plus. |
| 1:14.3 | And just by way of a case in point, plus members can right now access an extra bonus episode from amicus. |
| 1:21.0 | It's a conversation that I had with one of my favorite court watchers, Jessica Levinson, taped live in Los Angeles this past weekend, |
| 1:29.2 | and here's a taste of that conversation. |
| 1:32.0 | Could you talk to us again about the special relationship between women and the law? |
| 1:36.4 | I think it's something we're sitting in now at this moment. |
| 1:40.2 | And if you had asked me two years ago, I would have said kind of some version of what I said |
| 1:44.9 | at Whole Women's Health at that argument in 2016, which is we are so close to complete equality. |
| 1:52.4 | Look at us. |
| 1:53.2 | You know, we're 50% ever every law school class and we're, you know, kind of clawing our way |
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