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Dig: SCOTUS, Politics, and the Law

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🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Dan interviews legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal RBG and court veneration, and other big questions on the law and politics facing the left.

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0:00.0

This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by Verso Books which has loads of great left-wing titles

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perfect for Dig listeners like you.

0:14.8

One that you might like is, Who Killed Berta Casares?

0:18.8

Damns, Death Squad's, and an indigenous defenders battle for the planet by Nina Luckany.

0:25.7

The first time Honduran indigenous leader, Berta Casares, met the journalist Nina Luckany,

0:31.4

Kasserres said,

0:33.2

The Army has an assassination list with my name at the top.

0:36.7

I want to live, but in this country there is total impunity.

0:41.7

When they want to kill me, they will do it.

0:44.7

In 2015, Kaseres won the Goldman Prize, the world's most prestigious environmental award,

0:51.2

for leading a campaign to stop construction of an internationally funded

0:55.2

hydroelectric dam on a river sacred to her Lanka people. Less than one year later

1:02.2

she was dead.

1:04.8

Many questions about who ordered and paid for the killing remain unanswered.

1:09.8

Drawing on more than a hundred interviews, confidential legal filings, and corporate documents unearthed after years of

1:16.5

reporting in Honduras. Luckany paints an intimate portrait of an extraordinary woman in a state beholden to corporate powers, organized

1:26.4

crime, and the United States.

1:30.4

Who killed Berta Casares?

1:39.2

Dams, death squads, and an indigenous defenders battle for the planet by Nina Luckany

1:57.3

Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to the Digg, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and a broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. The Republican Party uses minority rule to impose a right-wing agenda upon a majority

2:06.8

that opposes everything that they stand for.

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Neither Bush nor Trump would have been president if we lived under a state that had the most basic features of a democracy.

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