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

Supreme Court Politics One Year On From Dobbs

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

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This episode is a part of Opinionpalooza. Slate’s coverage of Supreme Court decisions, and the other legal happenings in June. We consider this coverage so essential that we’re taking down the paywall for all of it. If you would like to help us continue to cover the courts aggressively, please consider joining Slate Plus. And sign up for the pop-up newsletter to see the latest every week in your inbox.


On this one year anniversary of Dobbs, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Anat Shenker Osorio to talk about how the political class still hasn’t found a way to communicate or act toward the court that delivered this suffering. 

Next, Dahlia is joined by Slate’s own Mark Joseph Stern to talk about two important decisions that came down this week, one concerning the rights of criminal defendants and another about the U.S. President’s right to set immigration policy. 


In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia and Mark tackle more questions from the Slate Plus listener mail bag about the tension between establishment clause and equal protection claims in suits brought to fight back against Dobbs on religious grounds, and how to impeach terrible awful no-good judges.


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0:00.0

These magadjustices are getting away with selling us out.

0:11.5

This is a court that thinks that habeas should serve essentially no purpose at all, and

0:15.8

that once you've been convicted, that's it for you, that any kind of further review is

0:20.8

just a bonus.

0:25.3

Hi and welcome back to Amicus.

0:27.3

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

0:31.4

Court.

0:32.4

I am Dylithquick and I cover these topics for Slate.

0:36.2

As we reach the one-year anniversary of the DOBS decision this weekend, Kaiser Family

0:41.3

Foundation Survey of 570 OBGYNs, it was just released, shows that 64% of OBGYNs believe

0:49.6

DOBS has worsened maternal mortality and 70% say it's worsened racial and ethnic inequities

0:56.0

in access to medicine.

0:58.2

According to NARAL, more than 26.1 million women are living under bands across 20 states,

1:04.8

nearly 14 million women now live in states where they are at risk of criminal punishment

1:10.5

for accessing abortion care.

1:13.6

If you are finding yourself trying to make all that concrete in your head, let me urge

1:18.2

you to take some time to read Eurin Carmon's Devastating Peace in New York Magazine,

1:24.1

in which she profiles Dr. Yashika Robinson, who was providing both abortions and delivering

1:29.5

babies in Alabama until DOBS, she and her husband are now trying to open up a birth

1:34.8

center and are being stymied at every single turn.

1:38.4

For a state that purports to be pro-life, Alabama is failing dismaly, and the physicians

1:45.3

who are trying to give care are exhausted and demoralized and they often feel like they

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