Guns on the Subway and Vigilantes in Texas
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🗓️ 6 November 2021
⏱️ 61 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 | So even under your own terms of taking seriously the words of the Constitution, the history behind them, you're wrong on some of the biggest questions of the day. |
| 0:18.8 | Because you have to look at the 14th Amendment. |
| 0:21.0 | You're not just looking at what happened in 1789. The full constitutional defense cannot be |
| 0:27.6 | asserted in the defensive posture. And it could be free speech rights. It could be free exercise of |
| 0:33.2 | religion rights. It could be Second Amendment rights if this position is accepted here. |
| 0:39.2 | There's a good case. This is a wonderful case for showing both sides. So I'm not sure how to deal with the history. |
| 0:49.3 | Welcome to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the law and the rule of law and the Supreme Court. I'm Dahlia Luthwick. I cover those things for Slate and I'm just going to say it. I'm a little bit sick. So this is my voice this week. And what a week. It has been at least seven people who attended the pro-Trump rally on January 6 6 in Washington, the one that happened right before the insurrection of the Capitol, well, they were elected to public office on Tuesday. |
| 1:18.9 | Susan Glasser, writing in The New Yorker, recently pointed to a pair of kind of alarming polls. |
| 1:24.3 | Last January, one CNN poll showed that 75% of Republicans believed Biden was not |
| 1:30.1 | legitimately elected. But according to the most recent CNN polling, that number has ticked up to |
| 1:35.6 | 78% of Republicans. That is being reflected not just in the kind of people who are being elected, |
| 1:42.5 | not just in voter suppression laws, but in a |
| 1:45.4 | huge, huge uptick in intimidation and threats against nonpartisan election officials. It's a worry. |
| 1:54.3 | The Supreme Court also had something of a rockum-sockham week, toggling from arguments in a major abortion case to an even more |
| 2:04.0 | major gun case within 72 hours. Both of those arguments signal, I think, that whatever else |
| 2:11.8 | happens, there is going to be a sea change at the high court. Soon, keep watching. |
| 2:18.7 | Later on in the show, Slate Plus members will have access to amicus behind the velvet |
| 2:23.8 | rope with our very own Mark Joseph Stern, who's going to help me pick over the remains |
| 2:30.4 | of the things that we didn't get to in the main show. |
| 2:34.1 | We're going to talk a little bit |
| 2:35.8 | about a main COVID order from last week, a capital punishment order, and a little bit of |
| 2:42.8 | gossip about what's going on with Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh. If you are not a |
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