Democracy Dies at SCOTUS
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🗓️ 27 April 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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This past week (that lasted about a year) at the Supreme Court began badly and only went downhill from there. By Wednesday, justices were trying to set aside the facts of women being airlifted out of states where they can no longer access care to protect their major organs and reproductive future, if that emergency healthcare indicates an abortion - in favor of pondering the spending clause. On Thursday, the shocking reality of the violent storming of the Capitol on January 6th 2021, and former President Trump’s many schemes to overturn the election and stay in power, were relegated to lower-case concerns as opposed to ALL CAPS panic over hypothetical aggressive prosecutors.
On this week’s Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by leading constitutional scholar and former assistant Professor Pam Karlan of Stanford Law School and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. Slate’s senior legal writer Mark Joseph Stern also joins the conversation about the MAGA justices flying the flag in arguments in Trump v United States.
In today’s bonus episode only for Slate Plus members, Jeremy Stahl gives Dahlia Lithwick a view from inside the courtroom of Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Amicus this is Slate's podcast about the US Supreme Court |
| 0:09.6 | the law and the rule of law I'm Dahlia Lythwick I cover those things for slate and to quote our |
| 0:16.1 | jurisprudence editor Jeremy Stahl and Slate Plus members you're going to hear |
| 0:20.5 | from him in today's bonus episode. |
| 0:23.0 | Yikes! |
| 0:24.4 | Yikes! said Jeremy. |
| 0:26.2 | That was his reaction to this week's tsunami of legal news. |
| 0:31.2 | Yikes! |
| 0:32.2 | FYI is like a nine on the jurisprudence editor Richter scale that we use here |
| 0:37.7 | it's late. So it's been a week and not in a good way. |
| 0:43.1 | On Monday, the court heard arguments in a homelessness case |
| 0:46.3 | that seeks to address how far cities can go |
| 0:49.4 | in terms of criminalizing people for sleeping outside, an oral argument in which Justice |
| 0:54.8 | Sonia Sonneuoyor was moved to ask, quote, where are they supposed to sleep? |
| 1:00.1 | Quote, are they supposed to kill themselves not sleeping, end quote. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh, but it got so much worse. On Wednesday, the court heard arguments in that ER |
| 1:10.5 | stabilizing abortion care case, the one known as Moil versus United States. |
| 1:15.8 | We covered it that day in our bonus episode and the arguments had justices pondering |
| 1:21.5 | whether just mere trivial permanent kidney damage is |
| 1:25.4 | something doctors should factor in when they're deciding what kind of |
| 1:28.9 | stabilizing emergency care to provide to pregnant patients. |
| 1:33.5 | We had some quality musing in that argument |
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