Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The "Stop the Steal" Fight That Never Ended
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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🗓️ 11 February 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Wisconsin’s State Supreme Court heard one of the landmark cases of the 2020 presidential election. During oral arguments in Trump v Biden in December 2020, Justice Jill J Karofsky participated in proceedings via Zoom from her office inside the state capitol in Madison. Outside her office window, she could see armed protesters gathered in what she later viewed as a dry run for January 6th. In a 4-3 decision, with one Republican justice siding against Trump, the Wisconsin Supreme Court voted to uphold Biden’s victory in the state. On this week’s Amicus, Justice Karofsky speaks for the first time about the fallout from that case: Fallout in her personal life, for herself and loved ones. Fallout in her professional life, with an investigation and the threat of sanction for her line of questioning in oral argument. And beyond all that, the fallout for democracy—and for the role of jurists within that democracy.
In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern to discuss the originalist Second Amendment ruling that puts women’s lives at risk, the looming prospect of a potential nationwide ban on a widely used, FDA-approved, abortion pill, and how the future of jurisprudence appears to be competing time machines.
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| 0:42.0 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 0:45.0 | This is SLEET's podcast about the law and the rule of law and the courts. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Dahlia Lequick and I write about these things for SLEET magazine. |
| 0:54.0 | The high court is in the midst of its long break this week, |
| 0:57.0 | so aside from a little depressing revelations about the spouses of justices |
| 1:02.0 | who evidently make some bank off relationships to their partners last week |
| 1:07.0 | and a little ethics reform news this week, |
| 1:10.0 | things are relatively quiet at the Marble Palace. |
| 1:13.0 | In his state of the Union address on Tuesday night, |
| 1:16.0 | President Biden largely forgot to mention the court, |
| 1:20.0 | or the EPA, or the Clean Water Act, or the loss of abortion rights, |
| 1:25.0 | or half of the population, all that happened kind of in a blur. |
| 1:28.0 | But given that Justice's clearance Thomas Samuel Alito, |
| 1:32.0 | Sonia Sotomayor, and Neil Gorsuch all took a pass this year anyhow, |
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