Special: SCOTUS After Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Political Gabfest

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🗓️ 19 September 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Emily Bazelon joins Mike Pesca, host of Slate's Gist, for a special episode on the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. After discussing Ginsburg’s history as a justice and legacy on the court, they begin to unpack the future political ramifications of her death. Emily and Mike talk through the ways a nomination could quickly slip through the Senate before January, the impact a conservative court could have on issues besides abortion rights, and if Ginsburg should have stepped down under President Obama. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Gabb Fest listeners. This is Mike Peska. I'm the host of the GIST, a daily show from Slate,
0:05.8	which talks largely about politics. Hmm, check it out, you might like it. But I did an interview with
0:11.9	Emily Bazelon. You know her from the Gabb Fest. I'm sure there's no one you'd like to hear from
0:16.9	more about the passing of RBG. So we bring that to you in our feed. It's also in the feed of the GIST.
0:24.8	Enjoy.
0:26.4	Hi, this is Mike Peska. And this is, I guess we're going to call it an emergency gist and a sad gist
0:35.4	because Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. According to NPR days before her death,
0:42.1	Ginsburg dictated a statement to her granddaughter, which said, my most fervent wish is that I will not
0:48.7	be replaced until a new president is installed that wish I believe turns to fear with Mitch McConnell's
0:56.4	statement saying essentially, we shall go forward when given a nominee with a vote. Joining me now
1:04.1	is Emily Bazelon, who is a staff writer for the New York Times magazine, senior research fellow
1:10.0	at Yale Law School, and of course contributor and a panelist on the Slate Political Gabb Fest.
1:17.0	Emily, thanks for joining me. You're welcome. And also I think condolences because you did know
1:21.9	Ruth Bader Ginsburg fairly well, is that right? Yes, Justice Ginsburg served on the DC Circuit
1:29.0	Court of Appeals with my grandfather years ago, and she lived in the same building in the water
1:33.7	gate as my grandparents. And so I knew her personally because my grandmother had a tailor,
1:42.9	like a clothesmaker, who Justice Ginsburg admired, who for a while was also making her some clothes.
1:48.0	So I've also interviewed her professionally, but you know what's funny? I mean, what I mostly
1:53.9	think about right now is that when I think of myself as like a professional woman involved in law,
2:00.1	like there's so many ways in which that came out of Justice Ginsburg's, the world that Justice
2:06.8	Ginsburg made possible for so many people. Yeah. And if it's not too personal or telling tales out of
2:14.0	school, so your grandfather, David Bazelon, am I right about that? Yeah. So he was one of these guys.
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