Did John Roberts Really Just Save Voting Rights?
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This episode is a part of Opinionpalooza. Slate’s coverage of Supreme Court decisions. Thank you to our Slate Plus members for making this episode available to all listeners. The full version of this episode is now exclusively available to our Slate Plus members. If you want to have access to bonus content like this, go to slate.com/amicusplus to become a member.
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern join forces for this Opinionpalooza extra episode of Amicus discussing a seismic Supreme Court decision on voting rights. In his majority opinion in Allen v Milligan, Chief Justice John Roberts pushes back against his own long-standing stance on voting rights. Join Dahlia and Mark in this bonus episode to find out why.
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| 0:04.0 | Welcome to your stargazers and space cadets. |
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| 0:08.3 | The beeps and blips we don't know. |
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| 0:12.8 | This June, place all witnesses under a group arrest. |
| 0:15.7 | How long can they keep us in Asteroid City? |
| 0:17.8 | I'm gonna know. |
| 0:18.5 | Hurry. I like aliens. |
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| 0:23.2 | What a strange experience this is. |
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| 0:28.5 | Book tickets now. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi and welcome to Amicus. |
| 0:37.0 | This is Slates podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court and I'm Dahlia |
| 0:41.6 | Lefwyck. |
| 0:42.6 | I cover those things for Slates and I'm about to be joined by senior writer Mark Joseph |
| 0:47.5 | Stern, my right or die person through all things opinion, Paloza. |
| 0:53.4 | We're gonna bring you this emergency edition of Amicus in the wake of a big and unbelievably |
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