Due Processing
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🗓️ 13 October 2018
⏱️ 55 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.
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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 under the Constitution to review the record of nominees. |
| 0:18.2 | To replace Kennedy with a different justice who liberal, progressive-minded people are prepared to think of as not their friend is a good thing. |
| 0:31.9 | Hi, and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 0:34.3 | This is Slate's podcast about the Supreme Court and the courts and the law and the rule of law. |
| 0:40.3 | And when last you heard from us, we were in Austin, Texas for a live show, which we're going to have to do more of because that was awesome. |
| 0:48.9 | But since that time, in two short weeks, the Senate has voted to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who took his seat at oral arguments this past Tuesday. |
| 0:58.7 | Let's have a little listen. |
| 1:00.3 | But isn't that what the model penal code had and some states already have? |
| 1:04.7 | In other words, this is not something that would be created now. |
| 1:10.0 | Well, Justice Kavanaugh, it's true that many states have a statutory |
| 1:13.4 | language that says adapted to early. The first Monday in October already happened, and a little bit we missed it. |
| 1:19.0 | And then this week, the court already declined to intervene in a challenge to a North Dakota voter ID law, |
| 1:26.1 | requiring voters to present a current residential street |
| 1:30.1 | address. 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 at |
| 1:43.9 | oral argument in a case about the detention |
| 1:46.3 | of immigrants. Justice Kavanaugh appeared to take a very hard line in favor of mandatory |
| 1:52.0 | detentions of immigrants long after they completed their sentences. This and other things will |
| 1:58.0 | all need to be discussed about the court and the upcoming 2018 docket. |
| 2:04.3 | And I promise we will look at all of it closely in an upcoming show. |
| 2:09.1 | But I don't know about you, but I'm still processing what happened in the last couple of weeks with the nomination and confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh. |
| 2:20.2 | So we want to do big picture this week. Later on in the show, we are going to talk to Vox's Matt |
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