Is the Burden Undue?
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
Slate Audio
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:32.4 | Welcome to Amicus Slate Supreme Court Podcast. |
| 0:40.4 | I am Dylithwick Slate Supreme Court reporter, and as you may know already, |
| 0:44.9 | this was one of those weeks that tend to get us Supreme Court people very, very excited. |
| 0:50.4 | On today's show, we're going to focus on one case, Whole Women's Health vs. Hellerstead, |
| 0:54.9 | that was argued Wednesday morning at the High Court as thousands of protesters |
| 0:58.9 | comment dear to the sidewalks outside screaming. |
| 1:01.9 | But before we get there, we wanted to bring you a little audio that most of you won't yet have heard, |
| 1:07.9 | although news of this sound on Monday morning just about broke the Internet. |
| 1:13.9 | It all happened early Monday toward the tail end of arguments in Wazine vs. United States, |
| 1:18.9 | a really arcane and frankly boring case about domestic violence convictions and gun ownership. |
| 1:23.9 | The press gallery was nearly empty. I had only come up to this early case to try to clear my head for the next argument. |
| 1:34.9 | That was a complicated case about judicial recusal rules. |
| 1:38.9 | But this argument was proceeding so very snoozily that even the Justice Department lawyer, |
| 1:44.9 | Alana H. Eisenstein, started to wrap up her presentation really early. |
| 1:49.9 | If there are no further questions, she said, signaling her intent to sit down at about 10.45 a.m., |
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