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

Don’t Call It an Abortion Case

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

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s show, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Priscilla Smith, director of the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School, to unpack the oral arguments in NIFLA v Becerra, the latest case on the calendar that seems to be about one thing but is being argued under the all-encompassing umbrella of speech. Dahlia also speaks with Walter Dellinger, former acting solicitor general, about why President Donald Trump can’t get a lawyer. Spoiler: It’s because he lies. 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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0:00.0

I think there's something special about this president, not his politics and not the

0:11.3

nature of his case and that is the fact that he lies.

0:14.8

He lies every day and I think that's got to be very troublesome to the Indian folks

0:19.2

who would be his attorney.

0:21.7

Hi and welcome back to Amicus Sleets Podcast about the U.S. Supreme Court, the courts,

0:29.7

the law and more and more recently about lawyers.

0:33.7

I'm Danielosik and I cover the courts and the law for sleep and this week's show is going

0:38.6

to take us into the complicated world of crisis pregnancy centers in California and then to

0:44.9

the even stranger world of Donald Trump's attorneys.

0:49.4

But first a little bit of housekeeping.

0:51.7

This week the court heard a second big monster political gerrymanders case, this one out of

0:56.8

Maryland.

0:58.0

I think it's fair to say that it is now playing that while the justices are confounded

1:02.9

by this problem, they are even more confounded by the solution.

1:07.5

In other Supreme Court news, Justice John Paul Stevens, who will turn 98 in April, happy

1:13.4

birthday, Justice Stevens, pandapies for the New York Times this week advocating for the

1:19.1

repeal of the Second Amendment.

1:21.6

The legal internet went predictably but Nana's with a lot of pushback actually from constitutional

1:27.9

scholars on the left as well as the right.

1:30.7

But you go with your fine self, John Paul Stevens.

1:34.6

Later on in the show, we are going to tackle the always vexing problem of Donald Trump's

1:40.1

inability to hire or retain for any amount of time on a journey.

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