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

The Press, The President, and Enemy Construction

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

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week Dahlia Lithwick looks at freedom of the press through the lens of legal scholarship. Lithwick is joined by Professor Lisa Sun of Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School and RonNell Andersen Jones, the Lee E. Teitelbaum Chair & Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah Law School. Their article “Enemy Construction and the Press” was published in the Arizona State Law Journal last year. Please let us know what you think of Amicus. Join the discussion of this episode on Facebook. Our email is amicus@slate.com. Podcast production by Sara Burningham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Conceiving of press freedom as an important civil liberties issue is going to be central to

0:42.0

the continued existence of our democracy as we know it.

0:53.0

Hi and welcome back to Amicus Slates podcast about the Cours and the Supreme Court and the rule of law.

0:59.0

I'm Dahlia Leswick and I cover many most of those things for Slate.

1:04.0

This weekend, perhaps at the very moment you are listening to this, I am out in sunny Austin hosting a live show with some of the great legal thinkers of this moment.

1:13.0

And we're going to be dissecting all of the latest developments in whatever the latest crazy developments are as they're developing, which I can't tell you now what they're going to be because God only knows.

1:27.0

But also we're going to be looking at the big long term constitutional challenges facing the Supreme Court and this country.

1:34.0

And all of that is going to be available to you in a special live episode early in the week.

1:41.0

In the meantime, today I want to bring you a conversation I had over the summer about the First Amendment, but not the speech and religion clauses that we've been obsessing over this entire entire year on the show.

1:54.0

No, we're going to turn our gaze instead to the press clause, which believe it or not is just as important, at least I think so, and how the press clause fits into the whole machinery of the First Amendment.

2:06.0

The press, in fact, she says, breakishly, is the only profession that is actually explicitly protected by name in the Constitution.

2:15.0

And while it is very, very meta for a journalistic podcast to be thinking about journalism, well, that's what we're going to talk about on this show. So please indulge me.

2:25.0

Renelle Anderson-Jones and Lisa Sun have been writing about the press and Donald Trump's relationship with the press and the implications of that for constitutional law for quite some time now.

2:36.0

The lower view article I wanted to talk about today is called Enemy Construction in the Press and it's published in Arizona State Law Journal.

2:44.0

It's an analysis of the relationship between Donald Trump and the media through the lens of the First Amendment and the press clause.

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