The Dig: The Law in Its Majestic Equality

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🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.” The rule of law: the #resistance has construed it to be a cornerstone of opposition to Trump. It is certainly alarming to live under a president who flirts with operating in a permanent and near-total state of exception. But it's the rule of law as we've known it that has blessed the wide-open floodgates of corporate money into American politics, looked the other way in the face of unchecked national-security-state abuses, christened separate and unequal schools and, of course, rubber-stamped the rise of mass incarceration. The law has no transcendent moral basis. Rather, it is shaped by political economy.

Dan’s guest is Amy Kapczynski, professor of law at Yale Law School, and a co-convenor of LPEblog.org.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:12.0	One that you might like is Police, a field guide by David
0:16.4	Quarea and Tyler Wall. It doesn't take firsthand experience to learn the meaning of pain
0:21.6	compliance or rough ride.
0:24.0	Police, a field guide, is an illustrated handbook
0:28.0	to the methods, mythologies, and history
0:31.0	that animate today's police. It is a survival manual for
0:35.4	encounters with cops and police logic. Whether it arrives in the shape of
0:39.9	officer friendly, tasers, curfews, noncompliance, or reformist
0:46.0	discourses about so-called bad apples. In a series of short chapters, each
0:51.6	focusing on a single term, such as the beat, order, badge, throw down
0:56.2	weapon, and much more, authors David Correa and Tyler Wall present a guide that reinvents and demystifies the language of policing
1:06.1	in order to better prepare activists and anyone with an open mind on one of the key issues
1:11.8	of our time, police brutality.
1:15.0	In doing so, they begin to chart a future free of this violence and of police.
1:21.0	Police, a field guide by David Correa and Tyler Wall.
1:25.0	Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and
1:41.6	I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. The rule of law.
1:46.5	It's something that the hashtag resistance has construed to be a cornerstone of
1:52.2	opposition to Trump.
1:53.4	And it is certainly alarming to live under a president
1:56.8	who seems to believe that he can operate under a permanent
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