Can The Senate Save Us?
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🗓️ 23 November 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
If you had forgotten the chaos of Trump 1.0, the frenzied first two weeks of transition to Trump 2.0 has surely been a stark reminder. A pair of random billionaires are claiming in advance that SCOTUS will back their extra-governmental plans for a slash and burn policy for federal agencies; accusations of sexual misconduct swirl around cabinet picks; nominations are being retracted and replaced, and while all of this happens we are waiting to see whether Republicans in the Senate will step into a role of moderation, or just roll over. This matters a lot with respect to what the federal judiciary is going to look like, how much scrutiny is applied to the most outlandish cabinet nominees, and the independence of the Justice Department.
On this week’s Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, who has spent years investigating the dark money plot to control the courts, and who knows from firsthand experience why the justice department is different from other agencies.
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| 1:00.0 | Thank you. That's ASANA.com. Hi and welcome to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the U.S. Supreme Court and the rule of law. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick and at least some part of that is my beat at Slate. |
| 1:10.0 | So last week as we were trying to make sense of this return to I'm Dahlia Lithwick, and at least some part of that is my beat at Slate. |
| 1:25.6 | So last week, as we were trying to make sense of this return to the Trumpian firehose of nonstop alarming announcements and pronouncements and creepy nominations, we reminded you, our listeners, to call your senators. |
| 1:28.7 | This week, we decided to take our own advice, and we called ours, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, who's here to answer some, |
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