Matt Gaetz And The Clown Car Crash Into The Justice Department
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Trump’s announcement of Matt Gaetz as his pick to head the Justice Department was met with gasps around the Capitol. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Slate’s senior legal writer Mark Stern to, yes, gasp together, but also to dig into what this stunt Attorney General appointment means for the law and the rule of law.
Next, Dahlia talks to Dr. Mary Anne Franks, author of Fearless Speech about the new era of censorship we are entering under the unprecedented power of Elon Musk and the oligarchs screaming “free speech” as they sue in their forum-shopped court of choice.
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| 0:31.5 | This is a guy that didn't have, the media didn't give a time of day to, after he was accused, sleeping with an underage girl. |
| 0:37.8 | When someone tells you all I care about is power, but also happens to throw in the word free speech, |
| 0:42.5 | why are you only listening to the part about free speech? |
| 0:46.0 | Oh, let me tell you, we have a new star. A star is born, Elon. |
| 0:53.5 | The marketplace of ideas looks like Twitter. |
| 0:56.0 | It's Elon Musk's X is the marketplace of ideas. |
| 1:03.5 | Hi, and welcome to Amicus. |
| 1:05.9 | This is Slate's podcast about the law and the courts and the rule of law and the Supreme Court. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 1:12.6 | I cover those things for Slate. |
| 1:15.5 | This week, as we attempted to integrate the election results, |
| 1:20.0 | Donald Trump sent a letter threatening to file suit against the New York Times and Penguin Random House for critical coverage of him, while the president-elect, at least for now, favorite sidekick, Elon Musk, introduced interesting new terms of service for his free speech public square, white supremacy, social media state. |
| 1:41.3 | So on this week's show, we wanted to talk about what freedom of expression |
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