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

Election Meltdown, Part 1

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

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Despite winning the Electoral College vote in 2016, President Donald Trump still claimed widespread voter fraud had robbed him of millions of votes. In the first part of a special five-part series of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by election law professor Rick Hasen to explore how those claims bolstered voter suppression and now threaten the integrity of the 2020 election. Rick Hasen’s new book Election Meltdown forms the basis for this special series of Amicus.  Join Slate for the Election Meltdown live show on Feb. 19 in Washington.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and

0:38.8

the Supreme Court and the rule of law. And for the next couple of episodes, it's also a

0:42.5

show about whether American democracy can, well, survive the 2020 elections. This is part

0:48.9

of our Who Counts project that we've launched here at Slate. If you are anything like

0:54.6

me, you have probably spent this past week with like one year on the impeachment trial

0:59.6

in the Senate, the other year at the US Supreme Court listening to arguments, maybe a hand

1:04.7

on the phone, your face and the keyboard. It's a little move I like to call rule of law

1:09.5

twister. And you could be forgiven if you're feeling just a tiny bit pretzily from all

1:14.8

of the maneuvers. We've been covering impeachment on what next and on Trumpcast and online

1:19.8

at Slate. And the court arguments in judiciary have been covered so well by Mark Stern in

1:24.5

the magazine. So everything is out there for you. But we are all in on the principle that

1:29.3

the one thing, the only thing that can truly matter anymore is the 2020 election. And

1:35.5

also to a question that many of us are just not yet paying a lot of attention to, which

1:40.4

is whether and how that election can be free and fair. And that is the question at the

1:46.0

very core of the arguments presented on the Senate floor this week during impeachment.

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