The Letter of the Law
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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🗓️ 28 February 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act -- King v. Burwell -- Dahlia Lithwick hears from experts on both sides of what could be the most important case in the Court’s entire term.First, she speaks with Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University and a one of the lawsuit’s chief architects. Then she hears from Abbe Gluck, a professor at Yale Law School and a co-author of an amicus brief submitted in the case.**************This week’s episode is sponsored by HBO. Its new documentary series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” airs Sundays at 8. We’re also sponsored by the Great Courses. Save up to 80% off their most bestselling courses here.
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| 1:00.7 | Hi and welcome to Amicus Slate Supreme Court Podcast. I'm dialy. Slate Supreme Court |
| 1:11.8 | correspondent and we've been on a little hiatus for the past few weeks due to an injury, |
| 1:15.8 | but we're back. We're better than ever. And this week we want to preview what may turn |
| 1:20.2 | out to be one of the sleeper cases of the term, a case scheduled for oral argument this |
| 1:24.8 | Wednesday. King versus Burwell is a challenge to the Affordable Care Act that could, at |
| 1:29.9 | least in the view of some court watchers, cut out the heart of Obamacare and leave millions |
| 1:34.6 | of newly insured, low and middle income Americans uninsured. But unlike the last big challenge |
| 1:40.5 | to the ACA in 2012, in which the court saved the president's signature legislation by one |
| 1:45.9 | vote, the king case has just not captured the public imagination. And that's probably |
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