Dahlia Lithwick on the Women Lawyers Who Took the Trump Administration to Court

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Sally Yates, who as acting attorney general refused to defend the travel ban on Muslim-majority countries. Reproductive rights attorney Brigitte Amiri, who represented teen migrants denied abortions. These are among the women lawyers Dahlia Lithwick profiles in her new book “Lady Justice” -- the ones who she says fought the racism, sexism, transphobia and xenophobia that took root and flourished during the Trump presidency. We’ll talk to Lithwick about how women are harnessing the law to advance civil rights, even as the Supreme Court and state legislatures work to curtail them. Guests: Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, Slate; host of podcast Amicus; writer of "Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.8	Attorney General, she refused to defend the travel ban on Muslim majority countries. Reproductive
1:25.8	Rights Attorney Bridget Amiri, represented teen migrants, denied abortions.
1:29.3	Both are among the women lawyers, Dahlia Lithwick profiles in her new book, Lady Justice,
1:34.3	the lawyers that she says fought the racism, sexism, transphobia and xenophobia that flourished during the Trump presidency.
1:42.3	We'll talk to Lithwick about how women are harnessing the law to advance civil rights,
1:46.6	even as the Supreme Court and state legislatures work to curtail them.
1:50.9	Join us. I'm Mina Kim. This is Forum.
2:04.9	Dahlia Lithwick's new book, Lady Justice, profiles the women attorneys who fought to protect
2:10.6	constitutional democracy and safeguard the rights of the marginalized during the Trump
2:14.7	administration. And they continue that fight as state
2:18.3	legislatures implement post-obs abortion bans. And the U.S. Supreme Court takes up cases about
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