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

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News Commentary,, Government, News

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Amicus’ election law whisperer, UC Irvine election law professor Rick Hasen, to sift through the results, the non-calls, and the many, many lawsuits of this post-election moment. Then, Dahlia is joined by Jim Zirin, former federal prosecutor and author of Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits, to map out the playbook the president is pulling from today and always--from his Supreme Court picks to all-caps claims of voter fraud. In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern reports on the big case at the intersection of religious liberty and the right of LGBTQ people to become foster parents that was heard at the Supreme Court this week. And what, if anything, we can draw from Amy Coney Barrett’s first week on the bench (on the phone). Sign up for Slate Plus now to listen and support our show. Podcast production by Sara Burningham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dad, I'm hungry!
0:01.5	Right, what do I cook for tea?
0:03.0	Errr, McCain chips. These will be good.
0:05.2	You know they'll come out nice and crispy if you cook them in a rye fryer.
0:08.1	Just say, Alexa, open McCain, and Alexa will help you.
0:12.0	What? You mean if I say Alexa, open McCain, Alexa will open the bag of chips for me.
0:16.4	Not literally open the bag of chips for your dad, but Alexa can tell you how to cook them
0:20.5	and give you ideas for tea.
0:21.9	Ah, okay. Alexa, open McCain.
0:24.4	Well done, dad. Such a tech wizard.
0:26.5	Chip, chip, hooray.
0:27.6	Crispy air fryer perfection with McCain.
0:30.1	This ad-free podcast is part of your Slate Plus membership.
0:38.9	It really doesn't seem that there is a viable legal strategy to get a case to the courts
0:44.3	that could plausibly serve as like a version, a 2020 version of the 2000 push versus core case.
0:51.6	You may have lawyers who are willing to take the case.
0:54.3	I mean, Trump throughout his career found lawyers who were willing to take these cases.
0:59.6	He found Michael Cohen who was willing to threaten people with lawsuits or bring lawsuits
1:05.6	in order to shut them up.
1:07.2	And that's the way he always operated.
1:17.5	Hi, and welcome to Anacas.
1:20.3	This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court.
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