Tennessee-Style Power Grabs are Coming to a State House Near You

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

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🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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On this week’s Amicus Dahlia Lithwick is first joined by Sherrilyn Ifill, former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to talk about Tennessee and the mounting evidence of Republican state houses and governors finding novel (but also depressingly old) ways to disenfranchise voters and subvert democracy. Ifill sounded the alarm about all of this in a prescient piece in Slate last month that deserves your attention.

Next, Dahlia is joined by Professor Stephen Vladeck on the opaque, unquestioned and largely unquestionable Supreme Court processes that undergird conservative contempt for the rule of law. Professor Vladeck’s book, The Shadow Docket -

How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic is out in May.

In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern. There was, categorically, Too Much News this week, so Dahlia turned to Mark for an exclusive conversation for our Slate Plus members about all the stuff we couldn’t cram into an already jam-packed main show. They start with what’s really not happening, and that is Supreme Court decisions. It’s April and there has been a mere smattering of decisions from the High Court. Mark and Dahlia try to figure out what the looming logjam might mean. Next, they talk yacht etiquette, gift grift, and Justice Clarence Thomas’ law breaking. And… Hey! Remember Wisconsin? It’s a big deal - Mark and Dahlia delve into why. Finally, the Supreme Court may not be issuing decisions, but it did deny a petition to overturn a stay of West Virginia’s extreme trans athlete ban. Mark has more on that decision and the shortcomings of a new Biden regulation about trans athletes.

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0:00.0	How did Malcolm finally gain his cat's respect?
0:03.1	Was it because he saved 35% on Train 9 and bravely looked into the eyes of his dismissive pet,
0:09.2	where he saw something that said,
0:11.9	I don't actually hate you.
0:14.8	His Train 9 detanged for Malcolm gaining his cat's respect.
0:18.8	We hope so.
0:19.7	We really do.
0:21.4	Great journey start with Train 9.
0:24.2	Average savings for advanced fairs, rail cards and split-save were available
0:27.1	versus equivalent flexible fair at TNC's apply.
0:33.9	Let's talk about expulsion.
0:36.4	This is an emergency is going so fast.
0:39.8	That's why you're standing there because of that temper tantrum that day.
0:43.6	How many of you would want to be spoken to that way?
0:46.3	For that yearning to have attention.
0:48.8	That's what you want it.
0:51.2	We're getting it now.
0:53.1	The reason that I believe the sponsor of this legislation, this resolution, spoke that way,
1:02.4	is because he's comfortable doing it,
1:05.6	because there's a decorum that allows it.
1:08.8	So now the whole country has had an opportunity to see what is coming to a state house near you.
1:15.9	This is not going to be limited to TNC unless we are vigilant.
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