Judging the Judiciary with Courts Expert, Dahlia Lithwick
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
As the year ends, we take a look back at our judicial system and look forward to what we can expect from it in 2024 with legal expert Dahlia Lithwick, a Senior Editor at Slate and a Contributing Editor at Newsweek. She graduated from Stanford Law and has been covering the courts for over two decades. She hosts the podcast, Amicus. In the pod today, Bill and Dahlia discuss the current state of the American judicial system, focusing on the impact of the Trump administration's appointments and the potential consequences for the 2024 presidential election. They discuss the role of the Supreme Court and its shift to the right under Trump, with three of his appointees now sitting on the bench. They also discuss the potential for authoritarianism if Trump were to return to office, with the former president currently arguing in various courtrooms that he is exempt from the justice system due to his previous role as president.. The podcast ends with a discussion on the legacy of Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, and her belief in the importance of the court's reputation.
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| 1:04.8 | Hello, good friends. Good to see you and welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:13.0 | Well, you hear this complaint from almost all sides today. Times are tough. Yeah, you hear it all from all sides but one, |
| 1:19.3 | from lawyers. Because with all the big lawsuits out there against Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, |
| 1:24.6 | Hunter Biden, and others, and all the big cases winding their way through the appeals courts and all the way up to the Supreme Court, this is a great job market |
| 1:29.0 | for lawyers. And how all of today's lawsuits and cases are settled will definitely have a huge |
| 1:35.7 | impact on next year's presidential campaign. So we thought it might be important to sit back here |
| 1:42.2 | toward the end of the year and take a good |
| 1:44.5 | hard look at our legal system and how it's performing at every level. |
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