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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

Lawyers are Tackling our Democracy Problem Via the Take Care Clause

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Dahlia Lithwick pans back this week to assess what’s holding and what’s buckling in terms of norms and institutions, two years and change into the Trump presidency. She’s joined by Ian Bassin of Protect Democracy, a new kind of litigation shop looking at global trends toward authoritarianism and trying to resist those trends in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.7

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0:30.0

There is a legal principle that underpins all of this.

0:39.2

It's in the Constitution twice.

0:40.8

The founders charge the president with taking care that the laws be faithfully executed.

0:46.8

The central crisis of the Trump presidency is that at root,

0:52.0

the president is violating that oath and that central demand.

0:55.8

Hi and welcome to Amicus.

1:04.7

I'm Dialithic Lake and I cover the courts and the Supreme Court and the law for slate.

1:09.0

We are two years now and change into the Donald Trump presidency.

1:13.8

This week, we thought we'd take the whole show to do something along the lines

1:18.4

of an all-purpose general democracy check-up.

1:22.2

We talk so often on this show about whether our institutions are holding or buckling the FBI,

1:27.5

the Justice Department, the courts, the Supreme Court itself,

1:30.1

but these questions seem to take a lot for granted.

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