The Lies Destroying America
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🗓️ 9 March 2024
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Summary
It’s not just the justices on the Supreme Court who can’t seem to agree with each other anymore. As we slide into Trump v. Biden 2 (The Second One), it seems like voters can’t seem to come to a consensus on just about anything either, including the facts they are arguing over. Author and superstar litigator Barbara McQuade argues in her new book Attack From Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America the information we consume is crucial to the health of our democracy. She speaks with Dahlia Lithwick about America’s problems with dis- and mis-information, and how we can solve them.
In this week’s Amicus Plus members-only segment, Dahlia is joined by her co-pilot in the jurisprudence news cockpit, Mark Joseph Stern to talk about President Biden's SOTU SCOTUS FU, why Alabama's legislative quick fix for its theocratic state supreme court's IVF decision is unlikely to hold, and the meta story of the meta data in the liberal justices’ concurrence in Monday’s Supreme Court decision to restore former President Trump to the Colorado primary ballot.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome back to Amicus. |
| 0:07.0 | This is Slate's Weekly Podcast about the courts and the law and the US Supreme Court |
| 0:11.0 | and a little something that around here we lovingly like to call the rule of law. |
| 0:17.0 | I am Dahlia Lithwick. I write about those things for slate. |
| 0:21.0 | Well, it seems we have made it to the weekend of yet another year-long |
| 0:26.4 | week starting on Monday with the Supreme Court's fractured unanimous unsigned |
| 0:31.7 | opinion putting Donald J. Trump back onto the ballot in the Colorado |
| 0:36.0 | primary without ever determining whether he insurrected in 2021 or not. On Super Tuesday, Trump locked up the nomination to become the Republican |
| 0:46.8 | candidate with Mickey Haley bowing out on Wednesday, again, despite the fact or maybe because of the fact that Trump did or did not, |
| 0:54.9 | foment encourage and or participate in an insurrection. |
| 0:59.2 | Who's to say? |
| 1:00.4 | Well, the Supreme Court will at minimum decide whether former presidents are allowed to coup with immunity and indeed impunity, |
| 1:07.0 | when it hears Trump v. U.S. on the freshly calendered date of April 25th of this year. |
| 1:15.0 | And finally, Thursday night brought a state of the union address that includes a kind of new tradition |
| 1:21.7 | wherein the president admonishes the seated, berobed, unsmiling |
| 1:26.2 | justices for all the crazy crap they have done. |
| 1:29.7 | So as we hurdle headlong into the Biden Trump rematch, the facts and the frame of American |
| 1:36.8 | politics have become so very contested as to seem unknowable. |
| 1:42.1 | Who's an insurrectionist and who is a January 6 hostage? Who won the |
| 1:46.0 | 2020 election and who stole it? This is the water we now swim in and we're going to |
| 1:51.0 | dog pedal to shore this week with my friend Barbara McQuaid |
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