Get Ready for the Most Significant Supreme Court Term in a Decade
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🗓️ 5 October 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, who explains the biggest cases facing the Supreme Court this term. Then Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, explains why the justices have decided to take up June Medical Services v Gee, the first big abortion case of the Kavanaugh era.
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| 0:00.0 | In terms of just the numbers of people in this country who will be affected, these decisions are enormously important. |
| 0:13.0 | The impact in Louisiana is even more drastic than the very drastic impact that the Texas law had, which is that it closed |
| 0:22.1 | half the clinics in Texas. |
| 0:30.5 | Hi, and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 0:32.9 | This is Slate's podcast about the law and the Supreme Court and the rule of law. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick, and this is a special off-week edition. It's our pre-Supreme Court curtain-raiser podcast. It's been a little bit delayed as a result of unanticipated constitutional happenings that rhyme with shm impeachment over the month of September. But as the postman is inclined to say, |
| 0:57.7 | neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail will keep the Supreme Court from opening its doors and |
| 1:02.9 | its 2019 session on the first Monday of October. And while that session is maybe not getting |
| 1:08.5 | as many headlines as it would normally garner, |
| 1:11.7 | I promise you it's a doozy. |
| 1:14.5 | So to the extent you have it in you to multitask, I want you to keep a watch on Maryland Avenue this fall as you're watching the impeachment process, |
| 1:24.5 | because this term will be one for the books. |
| 1:29.0 | Later on in the show, we'll be joined by Nancy Northup of the Center for Reproductive Rights to try to parse the court's |
| 1:34.4 | decision on Friday to take up the restrictive Louisiana abortion law and what it's going to |
| 1:40.0 | mean for Whole Women's Health and the future of Roe v. Wade. But first, let's get to previewing |
| 1:46.0 | the other big ticket items on the docket thus far with Dean Irwin Shemarinsky. |
| 1:52.0 | Irwin is the dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. He's an expert in |
| 1:57.0 | constitutional law, federal practice, civil rights, civil liberties. |
| 2:10.8 | His 11 books include the case against the Supreme Court, which we once talked about on this show, and We the People, a progressive reading of the Constitution for the 21st century. |
| 2:19.6 | He frequently argues appellate cases, including at the U.S. Supreme Court, and he is also, thank God, preternaturally gifted at making that which is unclear, perfectly comprehensible, which is a thing I would just like to have |
| 2:25.4 | intravenously dripped into my veins today. So, Irwin, with that as preamble, welcome back to the |
| 2:31.7 | show. Thank you so much. It's always a pleasure to talk with you. |
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