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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

Docket Deep Dive and Is It Time to Freak Out About Voting?

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dahlia Lithwick talks with Slate’s own Mark Joseph Stern about what to look out for this term. Professor of law and political science at UC Irvine, Rick Hasen discusses how free and fair the midterm elections will be in light of recent Supreme Court rulings on voting rights. Please let us know what you think of Amicus. Join the discussion of this episode on Facebook. Our email is amicus@slate.com. Podcast production by Sara Burningham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0

The big theme is can Robert's duck

0:37.2

these fastballs that are flying at his docket?

0:40.0

Or is he gonna have to accept that the court will become the political center of gravity again by June 2019?

0:53.3

There is a requirement of trench warfare

0:56.5

that is every single election change has to be fought in the courts

1:01.2

and is draining the resources of voting rights organizations

1:04.4

and it is impossible to go after every single case.

1:18.0

Hi and welcome back to Amicus.

1:20.2

Slates podcast about the Supreme Court and the law and the rule of law.

1:25.1

This week we confronted the heartbreaking news that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor,

1:30.8

uh, parenthetically the reason I went to law school,

1:33.5

uh, will be stepping back from public life following a diagnosis of early stages of dementia,

1:39.2

like the Alzheimer's.

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