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

Supreme Arrogance

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

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a part of Opinionpalooza. Slate’s coverage of Supreme Court decisions. If you would like to help us continue to cover the courts aggressively, please consider joining Slate Plus

In our final Opinionpalooza episode of 2023, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern host the Amicus annual “breakfast table” round-up at the end of the Supreme Court term, and they’re joined by:  

Jamelle Bouie, former chief political correspondent at Slate and current New York Times Opinion columnist and political analyst for CBS News. 

Sherrilyn Ifill, former President and Director Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and newly appointed head of Howard University’s inaugural Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights. 

Professor Stephen Vladeck, the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law, author of the New York Times bestselling book, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic."

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In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia and Mark loosen their ties, pour a snifter of brandy and hit the cigar bar of jurisprudence for a final discussion of the term that was; why progressives are still struggling to find an answer to the court’s torque to the right, and resisting the media’s urge to put a moderate bow on each extreme term.

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The watcher of the term from his arrogance

0:33.2

This is the norm that we have allowed to be created around the Supreme Court that it is hands-off that they are not accountable

0:41.0

These are not a random set of cases that the justice are decided in a court that it's really putting itself at the center of

0:47.4

American governments and making itself

0:50.2

Not simply a court of last resort for people but a final

0:54.7

Decision maker in the American system. This is a profoundly arrogant institution

1:02.0

Hey, and welcome back to amicus for the last episode of the

1:07.0

2022 Supreme Court term. I'm Dalia Lithuick. I cover the courts for slate along with Mark Joseph Stern who is joining me

1:14.5

for this episode of our

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Storyed Supreme Court breakfast table where we sit down with a bunch of

1:20.9

Transcendently smart court watchers to try to make some sense of the entire term that has just wrapped high mark

1:30.1

Hi, Dalia and as with all of our opinion pollusa shows this past month this episode will be available to all listeners

1:37.4

Thanks to the generous support of slate plus members who usually get the bonus content

1:42.5

We've been bringing to you all to themselves

1:45.6

Slate plus members will have access to a behind-the-valve at rope

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