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

Donald Trump and the Apex of MAGA Misogyny

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

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Despite Donald Trump’s efforts, there will be a significant cost for his continued defamation of E. Jean Carroll (And it’s $83.3 million!!). For much of the proceedings he sat behind Carroll muttering under his breath and posting three-dozen times on Truth Social in one night about the unfairness of the judge and the court. But zoom out, and Trump’s actions at the trial and toward women generally have far bigger implications than the size of the check he’ll have to write. This week, Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast joins Dahlia Lithwick to explain how Trump has fanned the flames of GOP misogyny playing out in every aspect of our politics, from the GOP primary to the leadership in the House of Representatives to women who have been raped in states with no access to abortion. And she asks what it ultimately says about our justice system that 80-year-old E. Jean Carroll is the one prepared to take the stand against the man who assaulted her.

In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern discusses the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision that kinda sorta resolved the battle between federal immigration authorities and Texas Governor Greg Abbott, and the horrifying turn the conservative turn has taken on capital punishment this week.

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rule of law in the Supreme Court I'm Dahlia Lithwick that's my beat and 24 is already exhausting. This past week in an order that explained

1:27.2

nothing, the highest court in the land ruled by a five to four margin on the

1:32.2

issue we talked about on last week's show with

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Rochelle Garza who gets to set immigration policy the federal government or the

1:40.3

state of Texas. The majority sided with the Biden administration for now, but the fact

1:45.6

that there were four votes to give Greg Abbott the keys to border enforcement is a kind of

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of chilling reminder of how deeply unmoored this court has become

1:56.5

from precedent and constitutional thought.

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For the folks watching the New Hampshire primary this week to see whether the GOP could kick its Trump addiction, no dice.

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And the question of whether a state can toss the former president off the ballot is careening up to the court for argument in less than two weeks.

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Meanwhile, jurors in a Manhattan courtroom determined that Donald Trump would have to pay more than

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