Justice, the Law & the Battle to Save America…PG:CC with Dahlia Lithwick

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We are joined today by Dahlia Lithwick, the brilliant award winning journalist who’s been writing about the Supreme Court for over 20 years, to get her take on where this increasingly compromised court is taking us and what we can do if we don’t want to go. Author of “Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America” Lithwick reminds us that for every big name hero we hope will save us, there are 100 unnamed people working behind the scenes making a difference, and we can be one of them. It’s tempting to see everything through the lens of politics in America, but we also have to look at it through the lens of the law, of organization and of inspiration. The Supreme Court clearly needs reform, our electoral system needs reimagining, our voting rights require protection, and everyone should choosing something to focus on to make it happen. Guest social: Lady Justice: https://www.amazon.com/Lady-Justice-Women-Battle-America/dp/0525561382 Slate: https://slate.com/author/dahlia-lithwick Twitter: @Dahlialithwick Please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl Thank you to today’s sponsors! www.greenchef.com/politicsgirl60 Promo Code: PoliticsGirl60 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everything you just said should have been John Roberts end of your report like if he had given you know
0:06.4	He doesn't John call me even the shoddy poor man's version of that would have been
0:12.8	Head and shoulders above the hairball that he choked out
0:16.2	Hello and welcome to the politics girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it. Today's
0:32.3	pod is a candid conversation with Dahlia Lithwick a regular contributor at MSNBC and senior editor at
0:38.0	Slate who's been writing about the Supreme Court and jurisprudence for over 20 years. Dahlia is
0:42.8	also the host of Emma Kiss Slate's award-winning podcast about the law and the Supreme Court
0:47.5	and her work has appeared everywhere from the New York Times to the New Yorker to the New Republic.
0:51.7	A visiting professor at the University of Georgia Law School, the University of Virginia School of
0:56.3	Law and the Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem Dahlia was one of the first online journalists
1:01.5	invited to the reporters committee for the Freedom of the Press. She testified before Congress about
1:06.2	access to justice in the era of the Roberts Court and how me two impacted federal judicial law clerks.
1:12.4	A Stanford and Yale graduate Dahlia has won a litany of journalism awards and has been featured
1:17.7	in many literary anthologies as well as co-authoring two books. I'm having her on today to talk about
1:23.5	her newest book Lady Justice Women the Law and the Battle to Save America. A book which focuses on
1:30.0	how the women around the country who independent of each other sprang into action and work tirelessly
1:34.9	to hold the line during the Trump years against the most chaotic and malignant presidency in
1:39.6	living memory. We'll also talk about the Supreme Court and what those of us who believe in
1:44.4	actual justice can be thinking and doing considering the direction the court seems to be headed.
1:49.6	So without further ado, please welcome my guest, lawyer, author, award-winning journalist,
1:54.9	and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, Dahlia Lithwick. Welcome, Dahlia.
2:00.0	Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here.
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