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

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News Commentary,, Government, News

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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A half-century after Brown v. Board of Education, should the Supreme Court still be in the business of integrating public schools and universities? Dahlia sits down with University of Virginia legal historian Risa Golubuff to discuss the backdrop to the term’s big affirmative action case, Fisher v University of Texas. Please let us know what you think of Amicus. Our email is amicus@slate.com. Subscribe to our podcast here. You can find past episodes of our show here. This week’s excerpts from the Supreme Court’s public sessions were provided by Oyez, a free law project at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, part of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Amicus is sponsored by MileIQ. If you’re one of the 60 million Americans who drive for work then you know that your miles are your dollars. Every mile you don’t log is money that you are losing. MileIQ is the only mileage-tracker app that detects, logs, and calculates your miles for you, ensuring that every mile is accounted for and no dollar is lost. Try MileIQ for free today by texting AMICUS to 31996. Podcast production by Tony Field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amicus is sponsored by MyLikeQ.
0:02.5	If you're one of the 60 million Americans who drive for your work,
0:05.3	then you know that your miles are your dollars,
0:07.3	and every mile you do not log is money you're losing.
0:10.1	MyLikeQ is the only mileage tracker app that detects,
0:13.1	lugs, and calculates your miles for you,
0:15.4	ensuring that every mile is accounted for and no dollars ever lost.
0:18.9	Try MyLikeQ for free today by texting Amicus,
0:21.7	AMI, C-U-S, to 31996.
0:24.6	That's Amicus to 31996.
0:27.5	Hi and welcome to Amicus Slates Podcast about the U.S. Supreme Court.
0:34.9	I'm Dahlia Lyskick, Slates Supreme Court correspondent.
0:37.9	Well, in a little under two weeks,
0:41.9	the high court is going to hear oral arguments
0:43.7	in the terms big, big affirmative action case,
0:46.1	Fisher versus University of Texas.
0:48.3	This case is actually known as Fisher 2,
0:50.6	because it was first argued at the court in 2013.
0:54.0	Back then, ruling by a 7-1 margin,
0:56.8	the court kicked the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit,
1:00.6	which had aired, said the high court,
1:02.4	in not applying strict scrutiny.
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