Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - How Amy Coney Barrett is Already Making a Mark on the Court
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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🗓️ 19 December 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to talk about lessons learned from this election cycle, and what it’s like to be in the eye of the “unleash the kraken” storm.Â
Next, Dahlia talks with Professor Steve Vladeck of the University of Texas School of Law about Bill Barr’s departure from the Justice Department, and they try to shed some light on the latest signals emerging from the Supreme Court’s shadow docket.Â
In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia for all the Supreme Court news we couldn’t cram into the main show, including analysis of the Covid closure cases and Mitch McConnell’s unprecedented lame-duck judicial appointment spree. Â
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| 0:00.0 | The use of the legal system to try to undermine democracy over these past few weeks |
| 0:10.7 | has been a corruption of the process and a blasphemous reflection of people's respect for the |
| 0:17.7 | rule of law and for their role in it. |
| 0:22.7 | They know they have a majority that wants to send these messages. |
| 0:25.9 | They don't have a suitable merits case in which to do it. |
| 0:29.6 | And so they're pulling cases off the shadow docket where they can say what they want to say. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah. Hi, and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 0:48.9 | This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the rule of law on the Supreme Court. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Dolly Lithwick. |
| 0:51.3 | I cover the courts for Slate. |
| 0:58.5 | And as we finally slouch away from the 2020 election, the Supreme Court seems to be making it quite plain. They're just not getting involved in disrupting the election results. |
| 1:03.4 | The court is, however, still quite involved in hearing and deciding a long string of COVID closure cases. |
| 1:09.8 | We're going to talk about that later on in the show. |
| 1:12.6 | Our two guests today, both wonderful, are Michigan Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, |
| 1:18.7 | who has quite literally been on the front lines of election litigation for weeks and weeks now. |
| 1:24.7 | And Steve Vlottick, he teaches at the University of Texas School of Law, |
| 1:29.1 | and we're going to talk to him about Bill Barr's abrupt resignation or whatever that was this |
| 1:34.3 | week and other happenings in the courts. Even later on in this show, Slate Plus members are |
| 1:40.8 | going to get to hear from Slate's own Mark Joseph Stern in our members-only Slate Plus segment |
| 1:47.2 | digging into happenings at and around the Supreme Court that we can't quite mash into the main show. |
| 1:54.7 | If you are not a Slate Plus member, you can always join by heading to slate.com slash amicus plus. |
| 2:02.1 | We so appreciate our plus members and all that they do to support our journalism here at the magazine. |
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