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

One Person, One Vote

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

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What is the meaning of “one person, one vote? That’s the main question in Evenwel v. Abbott, argued this week at the Supreme Court. On this episode, Dahlia speaks with Andrew Grossman and Nathaniel Persily -- experts on opposing sides of the case. She also plays a few highlights from the week’s big affirmative action case, Fisher v University of Texas at Austin. Please let us know what you think of Amicus. Our email is amicus@slate.com. Subscribe to our podcast here. You can find past episodes of our show here. Amicus is sponsored by The Great Courses, offering a series of lectures about the impact that technology is having on the constitution and our rights. The series—"Privacy, Property & Free Speech: Law and the Constitution in the 21st Century"—is available right now at up to 80 percent off the original price if you visit TheGreatCourses.com/amicus. Podcast production by Tony Field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I am Dylithwick, Slates Supreme Court correspondent, and this week the court heard you may have heard

1:06.3

about it some big cases.

1:08.8

Among them, Fisher vs. University of Texas, that was the big affirmative action challenge

1:14.1

that we discussed last episode.

1:16.0

We're going to talk a little bit later in the show about the Fisher case, but this week

1:20.1

we wanted to focus the show principally on a voting rights case, Evan Welle vs. Abbott.

1:25.6

Also coming out of Texas, it was argued Tuesday at the court.

1:29.0

I should just flag for you because it's interesting that both Fisher and the Evan Well

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