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

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

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dahlia Lithwick talks with Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon about the “deep wounds” in the senate following Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation. And she’s joined by Vox’s Matthew Yglesias who brings his nihilism about the institution of the Supreme Court to the show. 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

If we ever see this in the future, the Senate has to stand up and protect their responsibility

0:11.7

under the Constitution to review the record of nominees.

0:18.8

To replace Kennedy with a different justice, who liberal progressive-minded people are prepared

0:24.8

to think of as not their friend is a good thing.

0:55.3

Who took his seat at oral arguments this past Tuesday?

0:59.8

But isn't that what the model penal code had?

1:03.8

Some states already have another word, so this is not something that would be created

1:08.8

now?

1:09.8

Well, Justice Kavanaugh, it's true that many states have a statutory line of work.

1:14.8

The first Monday in October already happened and a little bit we missed it.

1:19.8

This week, the court already declined to intervene in a challenge to a North Dakota voter

1:25.1

ID law requiring voters to present a current residential street address.

1:31.2

Lawyers are saying that that decision will likely prevent thousands of Native American

1:36.3

voters who only have PO boxes from casting a ballot in the November election on Wednesday

1:43.5

at oral argument in a case about the detention of immigrants.

1:47.7

Justice Kavanaugh appeared to take a very hard line in favor of mandatory detentions

1:52.7

of immigrants long after they'd completed their sentences.

1:56.7

This and other things will all need to be discussed about the court and the upcoming 2018

2:03.6

docket.

2:04.6

And I promise, we will look at all of it closely in an upcoming show, but I don't know about

2:10.1

you, but I'm still processing what happened in the last couple of weeks with the nomination

2:17.2

and confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh.

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