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

Rudy and the Death of Truth

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

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, host of Stay Tuned with Preet, and author of Doing Justice. Bharara gives an insider’s view of Rudy Giuliani’s current plight, they also discuss this week’s ruling from a federal judge rebuking former attorney general Bill Barr. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Amicus. Sign up now at slate.com/amicusplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Sara Burningham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're always talking about prosecutors, prosecutors, prosecutors.

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Even though I was one, they're not the panacea.

0:44.0

Hi and welcome back to Anacos.

0:49.0

This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the rule of law in the Supreme Court.

0:54.0

Let's look at some of those things for Slate.

0:57.0

The high court heard its final oral arguments of the term in these past two weeks.

1:03.0

Several things are noteworthy, including the First Amendment rights of the fell mouth cheerleader.

1:09.0

One other thing that is worth noting is that Chief Justice John Roberts,

1:13.0

who didn't much question why Donald Trump's Justice Department kept changing sides in cases filed in the Obama era,

1:20.0

complained on Tuesday that Biden's Justice Department was doing the same thing in a case about crack cocaine sentences.

1:27.0

For our Slate Plus friends, Mark Joseph Stern is out this week for a very richly-deserved vacation,

1:34.0

so we're not going to have our regular debrief around the latest from the high court and other federal courts.

1:40.0

But rest assured, he will be back for our next show.

1:44.0

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