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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Dahlia Lithwick Talks to David Remnick About the Violence in Charlottesville

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Demonstrators at Charlottesville’s “Unite the Right” rally were allowed to march through the University of Virginia campus carrying flaming torches and assault rifles. Dahlia Lithwick, a legal analyst, and Slate senior editor was, until recently, a longtime resident of Charlottesville. She talks to David Remnick about the legal wrangling before the protest, and about how our legal system fails to reckon with the clashing interests of the First and Second Amendment in an open-carry state, where some opinions are “expressed” with military weapons, are all views equally protected?

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On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick talks to legal analyst and Slate

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senior editor, Dahlia Lithwick, about the violence in Charlottesville and the clash between

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the First and Second Amendments.

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Demonstrators at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville marched through the grounds of the

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University of Virginia, carrying flaming torches, an echo of Nazi rallies in the past, and in a modern American touch, some carried assault rifles.

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Just how and why they were allowed to do that is one of the questions I put to Dahlia Lithwick, the legal analyst at Slate.

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She hosts Slate's Amica's podcast, and she lived in Charlottesville until just a few weeks ago.

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Dahlia, I just want to start with Charlottesville, of course.

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You've lived there for a long time.

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16 years.

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I had both my children there.

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