Sneak Preview: The RFK Jr Ballot Mess in North Carolina Was Just the Beginning
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
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Summary
State Supreme Courts are vital to the functioning of American democracy. They are also where voting rights are enforced or eviscerated. This is especially true of North Carolina’s State Supreme Court, a battleground court in a battleground state. On a special bonus episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Stern (your Amicus Plus dream team) are joined by Justice Allison Riggs of North Carolina’s State Supreme Court for an in-depth interview on what’s at stake in North Carolina this year, and the path forward for progressive priorities and jurists in state courthouses.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, and welcome to Amicus Plus, the cherry on top of Slate podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 0:09.1 | And I'm Mark Joseph Stern. |
| 0:10.5 | And we are popping into your feed with this slightly unusual midweek episode because Mark and I just did an interview. |
| 0:18.4 | We kind of wanted to share with our subscribers as soon as we possibly could. |
| 0:22.7 | It's not exactly an emergency episode, but it is, in fact, urgently important. And so we're |
| 0:28.4 | releasing the Amicus Plus bonus episode early this week. And joining us in the Amicus Plus |
| 0:33.4 | VIP room is Justice Allison Riggs, Associate Justice of the North Carolina State Supreme Court. |
| 0:39.6 | Justice Riggs is currently running to keep her seat on the court, and we wanted to talk to her about |
| 0:44.4 | all things state races, voting, and North Carolina. And as you know, as amicus listeners, judges are |
| 0:50.6 | always constrained by what they can and cannot say to the press, and certainly judges running for |
| 0:56.2 | election have to be extra careful about what they say. Justice Riggs, to be clear, is not permitted |
| 1:01.8 | to comment on cases currently before her at the court. She cannot forecast how she would rule on cases in the future or opine on the merits of judicial opinions that have been issued by state courts. |
| 1:12.9 | But that said, Justice Riggs also has a long track record as a civil rights and voting rights litigator. |
| 1:19.4 | And as you have heard us say so often on this show, Annette Slate.com, the magazine, this particular court in North Carolina is a bellwether, and this |
| 1:29.0 | particular race tells us a whole lot about state Supreme Court races nationwide. |
| 1:34.0 | Slate Plus members have access to the extended version of this interview. If you want to |
| 1:38.9 | listen to it in full, click try free at the top of the Amicus show page in Apple Podcasts, or go to slate.com |
| 1:46.6 | slash amicus plus to unlock the full version of this interview wherever you listen. |
| 1:52.5 | Justice Riggs, Mark and I just want to start by extending to you a really heartfelt welcome to |
| 1:59.0 | amicus. We're always just like tickled when we get judges on the show |
| 2:02.6 | because sometimes this kind of format can seem just very, very, very out of bounds for jurists. |
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