Playground of Liberty

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

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News Commentary,, Government, News

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Newly sworn-in Justice Neil Gorsuch gets his first chance to make his mark on the Court at this week’s oral arguments for Trinity Lutheran v. Comer. The important case asks whether the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause compels the state of Missouri to provide public grant money directly to a church. Holly Hollman, general counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, joins us to discuss BJC’s amicus brief in the case, which argues that religious institutions are actually freer if they are barred from accepting government funds. We also sit down with Jeffrey Toobin, whose piece in this week’s The New Yorker examines the enormous influence that the Federalist Society – and especially its executive vice president Leonard Leo – have on the American judiciary. Toobin argues that with the ascension of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Leo can now be credited with the selection of one-third of the nation’s most powerful judges. Transcripts of Amicus are available to Slate Plus members, several days after each episode posts. For a limited time, get 90 days of free access to Slate Plus in the new Slate iOS app. Download it today at slate.com/app. Please let us know what you think of Amicus. Join the discussion of this episode on Facebook. Our email is amicus@slate.com. Podcast production by Tony Field. Our intern is Camille Mott. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	We have no president who has appointed more than two justices on the current court.
1:07.0	But we have Leonard who's responsible for three.
1:13.0	It's really short-sighted when people say, hey, treat religion like everything else.
1:17.0	That's not what most religious people and religious communities want.
1:22.0	The first amendment and corollary provisions and fake constitutions. Treat religion especially.
1:33.0	Hi and welcome to Amica Slates podcast about the US Supreme Court.
1:37.0	I'm Dahlia Lithwick. I cover the courts and the law for slate.
1:41.0	And this past Monday after a 14-month vacancy judge Neil Gorsuch was sworn in as the junior justice of the highest court in the land.
1:50.0	I, Neil, am born such a do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, without administer justice, without respect to persons.
2:01.0	And do equal right to the poor and to the rich and do equal right to the poor and the rich.
2:07.0	And that I will faithfully and impartially discharge.
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