Hang Up and Listen - Hang Up and Listen: The Suspension and Disbelief Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2014
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, and special guest Jason Gay discuss the NFL’s suspension of Ray Rice. They also break down the Astros’ failure to sign top overall pick Brady Aiken, and Kathryn Bertine joins to discuss her push to get women in the Tour de France.Show notes at www.slate.com/hangup.
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| 0:29.4 | Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amagus. If you are listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th. |
| 0:45.0 | My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests, |
| 0:50.0 | including Cheryl and Aifel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice. |
| 0:54.5 | All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution, |
| 1:00.9 | has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. It's been |
| 1:05.7 | doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the |
| 1:10.3 | rolling back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear. |
| 1:26.5 | But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th |
| 1:31.8 | to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation. |
| 1:36.2 | Go to slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. Thanks. podcast Hang Up and Listen for the Week of July 28th, 2014. |
| 1:53.9 | On this week show, we'll talk about NFL commissioner Roger Giddell's decision to suspend |
| 1:58.1 | Ravens running back Ray Rice for two games and whether that suspension reveals that the NFL is soft on domestic violence. |
| 2:05.4 | We'll also discuss the controversy at the top of the Major League Baseball draft. |
| 2:09.1 | After high schooler Brady Aiken became the first number one overall pick in 30 years not to sign, and the team that took him the Houston Astros has, in the words of Sports Illustrated, been accused of acting unethically at best and villainously at worst. We'll then chat about a tour |
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