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The Al Franken Podcast

Dahlia Lithwick on SCOTUS 2019-20 Term and Trump's Commutation of Roger Stone's 40-Month Sentence

The Al Franken Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

Government, Progressive, Politics, Senate, Liberal, Senator, Minnesota, Franken, News, Saturday Night Live, Comedy, Snl

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Al and Dahlia discuss the Court's top decisions, including Bostock, which held that federal law prohibits employment discrimination agains LGBT workers, and whether Alito's dissent in that case was "very gay."

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0:00.0

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0:09.0

In a four-part series, the Generation Y Podcast unravels the story of Khalif Browder, a young

0:14.3

boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held it Recker's island for three years

0:19.5

without trial.

0:21.0

This is a story about a young life caught in the middle of the justice system.

0:25.0

Introduce a Generation Y on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:32.0

Hey, everybody.

0:34.4

I got a great one today, you know, for a change, but this time, this time I mean it.

0:41.2

The brilliant Dahlia Lithwick award-winning writer on the Supreme Court and on Cheers

0:46.4

Prudence, her fourth time on the podcast for a reason, for a reason.

0:52.8

Not only has she won awards for her coverage of the High Court for Slate, she's just a fabulous

0:59.4

guest.

1:00.4

And this one, we go over the Court's 2019-2020 term and its rulings in a number of

1:08.0

very significant cases.

1:09.8

And I was on the Senate Judiciary Committee for eight and a half years.

1:14.1

And even though I am not a lawyer, I did play one in a sketch and I don't know if you're

1:19.0

aware of the amount of prep you do at SNL to research a role you play in a sketch.

1:28.2

Let's just say I was known for asking better questions and hearings than anyone else on

1:34.3

the committee.

1:35.3

For example, okay, my colleague Amy Klobuchar, she's a good questioner and remember she asked

1:41.1

a very good question of Kavanaugh at his second part of his confirmation hearings, have

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