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

First Amendment Fallacies

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

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, to try to unpack how the First Amendment has become the answer to everything and yet actually applies to so few of the speech issues we face.  In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern takes a look at Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissent this week that sounded a lot like an endorsement of the Big Lie of 2020: Just because there’s no evidence of voter fraud, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. 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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Some people are looking to the first amendment to be the solution to our problems in the digital

0:51.8

public sphere.

0:53.2

And I think there's a real question, can the first amendment be a solution here?

0:56.2

But there's also a question, is the first amendment the problem?

1:12.7

Hi and welcome back to Amicus.

1:15.1

This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court and the rule

1:19.8

of law.

1:20.8

I'm Dahlia Lithwick, I cover some of those things for Slate.

1:24.1

This past week has seen confirmation hearings for Merritt Garland to serve as the new Attorney

1:29.7

General, bitter division around a COVID relief package and bitter division around a voting

1:36.4

rights bill.

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