Guns on the Subway and Vigilantes in Texas
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Elizabeth Wydra, President of the Constitutional Accountability Center, a think tank, law firm, and action center dedicated to the project of using the original text, purpose and history of the Constitution to achieve progressive outcomes. Together, they take us inside the chamber for the big cases at the Supreme Court this week, concerning guns and abortion.
In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia to discuss some significant orders concerning religious exemption and capital punishment, the cert grant that’s bad news for the climate, and whether some of the justices might be having a shadow docket hangover.
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| 0:00.0 | Why does American democracy look the way it does? |
| 0:02.8 | And how can we make it more responsive to the people it was formed to serve? |
| 0:06.8 | Democracy Decoded, a podcast by Campaign Legal Center, |
| 0:10.4 | examines our government and discusses innovative ideas that could lead to a stronger, more transparent, |
| 0:16.8 | accountable and inclusive democracy. |
| 0:19.4 | In season two, host Simone Leeper covers everything you need to know about voting in the US. |
| 0:24.9 | Listen to the latest season at democracydecoded.org or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | Say, even under your own terms of taking seriously the words of the Constitution, |
| 0:45.2 | the history behind them, you're wrong on some of the biggest questions of the day. |
| 0:49.8 | Because you have to look at the 14th amendment, you're not just looking at what happened in 1789. |
| 0:56.0 | The full constitutional defense cannot be asserted in the defensive posture. |
| 1:01.2 | And it could be free speech rights, it could be free exercise, |
| 1:04.4 | of religion rights, it could be second amendment rights. |
| 1:07.6 | If this position is accepted here, there's a good case, this is a wonderful case for showing both sides. |
| 1:13.9 | So I'm not sure how to deal with the history. |
| 1:23.0 | Welcome to Amicus. This is Leite's podcast about the law and the rule of law and the Supreme Court. |
| 1:28.8 | I'm Dahlia Leeper, I cover those things for Slate and I'm just going to say it a little bit sick. |
| 1:34.0 | So this is my voice this week. And what a week it has been. At least seven people who attended the |
| 1:40.7 | ProTrump rally on January 6th in Washington, the one that happened right before the insurrection |
| 1:46.2 | of the Capitol. Well, they were elected to public office on Tuesday. Susan Glacier writing in the |
| 1:51.6 | New Yorker recently pointed to a pair of kind of alarming polls. Last January, one CNN poll showed that |
| 1:58.4 | 75% of Republicans believed Biden was not legitimately elected. But according to the most recent CNN |
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