Hang Up and Listen - Hang Up Extra: Sepp Blatter To Resign
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2015
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who announced today that he will step down amid a corruption scandal at soccer's international governing body. Show notes at slate.com/hangup
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| 0:29.7 | 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 Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice, all about how originalism, a relatively |
| 0:57.0 | recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution, 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 |
| 1:31.7 | to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation. |
| 1:36.2 | Go to slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:47.0 | It is Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015. This is a special episode of Slate Podcast, hang up and listen. |
| 2:00.0 | You asked for it. We are providing it on Monday we recorded as per usual. Talked about how |
| 2:07.4 | steplider was going to be ensconced in his fiefdom at FIFA for life on Tuesday, not adhering to the slate podcast publication schedule. |
| 2:18.3 | The man announces that he is leaving. FIFA needs a profound overall. |
| 2:22.5 | He said in French, so just imagine this being said in French. |
| 2:26.4 | Well, I have a mandate from the membership of FIFA. |
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