Chief Justice John Roberts, a Rock, and a Hard Place

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

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News Commentary,, Government, News

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst and author of the upcoming book The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts, to unpack John Roberts’ State of the Judiciary address, and to examine the state of the Chief Justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Where are you?
0:01.1	Asteroid City.
0:02.2	From director Wes Anderson.
0:04.0	Welcome to your stargazers and space cadets.
0:06.8	What are those pulses indicate?
0:08.3	The beeps and blips we don't know.
0:09.8	There's an alien.
0:11.8	That actually happened.
0:12.8	This June, place all witnesses under a group arrest.
0:15.8	How long can they keep us in Asteroid City?
0:17.8	I'm in O'Hurry.
0:18.8	I like aliens.
0:19.8	Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks.
0:23.2	What a strange experience this is.
0:25.4	Asteroid City, in cinemas June 23.
0:28.4	Booktickets now.
0:30.4	The Instincts of John Roberts, who rose in Washington as he served Republican administrations,
0:41.2	have always rested with the right wing.
0:43.7	But now he's much more in a position to be torn between his ideological instincts
0:51.6	and his very real institutional concerns about the third branch, in particular, about
0:57.2	the Supreme Court.
1:00.0	Hi, and welcome back to Amicus Slates podcast about the Supreme Court and the law and the
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