This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books,

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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

The Rule of Law. It's something that the hashtag resistance has construed to be a cornerstone

of opposition to Trump. And it is certainly alarming to live under a president who seems to

believe that he can operate under a permanent and near total state of exception.

But it's also 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 public schools,

and, of course, rubber-stamped the rise of mass incarceration. The law has no transcendent moral basis. Rather, it is shaped by

and embedded in political economy. My guest today is Amy Kepchinsky, a professor of law at Yale Law School, and a co-convener of LPEBlog.org.

LPE, of course, stands for law and political economy.

Kapschinsky writes and teaches about law and political economy, often as it relates to health and pharmaceuticals.

Before we get rolling, it's May 15th, and we are roughly 15 people away from closing out our

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