Parsing the Shadow Docket
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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🗓️ 16 February 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Dean Risa Goluboff and Vice-Dean Leslie Kenrick of the University of Virginia School of Law. Together, they tackle issues of race in government, gender in the law, plus religion and reproductive rights in the court.
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| 0:00.0 | Nobody gets their chaplain, then everybody's worse off. |
| 0:14.6 | This was a Fifth Circuit opinion really truly thumbing its nose at the court, and a case at the court just decided whole women's health. |
| 0:22.6 | And I think that's not something you can count in and says the Chief Justice of the United States. |
| 0:32.8 | Hi and welcome to Anicus Slate's podcast about the courts, the Supreme Court, and the rule of law. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm Dahlia Liffick, and I cover the courts for Slate. |
| 0:41.3 | And another week comes to a close, and it's another week where you may be requiring a little neck brace for the whiplash you are suffering. |
| 0:49.9 | Well, me too. |
| 0:51.6 | As of this moment, the president has now declared a state of emergency at the southern border because he didn't get as much money as he was hoping to get from Congress for the wall. He said Mexico would pay for it. |
| 1:03.0 | In addition to that, California has also announced that they plan to sue the Trump administration over the declaration of a national emergency on the border. So stay |
| 1:12.1 | tuned. And the Supreme Court at the very last minute has injected some real political oomph into what was a bit of a sleeper dock at this term by opting on Friday to take up the census case that we examined pretty carefully with Dale Ho of the ACLU a few months back. Consider |
| 1:30.7 | all of these items pinned to the very top of the agenda for future amicus episodes, but for this |
| 1:37.3 | episode we wanted to turn to some of the non-Trump-based legal issues that have been swirling around |
| 1:42.8 | in the national conversation of late. |
| 1:44.8 | We wanted to go for a little bit more of a grab bag than my usual order Muppity style. |
| 1:50.2 | And so we're going to talk religion in the court, gender and government, race in the |
| 1:54.7 | Commonwealth of Virginia, and a whole bunch of other stuff. And I'm bringing on two of the |
| 1:59.1 | very smartest women I know to help me tackle |
| 2:01.6 | all of those things, and let's see what happens. Risa Goliuboff has been on the show before. |
| 2:07.0 | She's the first woman dean at the University of Virginia Law School and a nationally renowned |
| 2:11.1 | legal historian whose scholarship and teaching focuses on American constitutional and civil |
| 2:16.1 | rights law with a focus on race. Leslie Kendrick is the |
| 2:20.4 | vice dean of the University of Virginia Law School, and she's an expert in the First Amendment and |
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