The Supreme Court's Dangerous Return to Its Roots
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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🗓️ 13 May 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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On this week’s Amicus, we head to Seattle for a live taping of the show at the Cross Cut Festival with guest Michael Waldman, President of NYU Law School’s Brennan Center. Dahlia Lithwick asks him about his new book, THE SUPERMAJORITY: How the Supreme Court Divided America, and what the ongoing ethics scandals and plummeting public approval for the court mean for our democracy. They also look ahead to next month when the court’s legitimacy may be stretched even further by major decisions that fly in the face of the majority of public opinion.
In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern to talk about the decisions that came out this week concerning pork producers and public corruption, which delivered some surprising and depressingly unsurprising opinions. They also try to figure out how many more times E Jean Carroll might have to sue Donald Trump to halt his defamation demolition derby.
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| 0:30.0 | We've got at the very moment when their credibility needs to be conserved. |
| 0:38.8 | It's being squandered with these controversies as we now learn more and more about how they're operating. |
| 0:44.6 | We have a minority rule court that is not just imposing minority rule, |
| 0:50.2 | but is actually shrinking the ability to vote. |
| 0:54.0 | John Roberts holds the gamble, but Clarence Thomas holds the power. |
| 1:01.0 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 1:04.3 | This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the Supreme Court, the law, the rule of law. |
| 1:09.6 | I am Diolithwick. |
| 1:11.1 | These days I play journalism, whack-a-mole, covering some of those things for Slate, |
| 1:16.8 | which I could not do without my jurisprudential wingman. |
| 1:20.6 | Actually, I'm going to say commander-in-chief, Mark Joseph Stern, |
| 1:24.6 | who is right here right now with me making a cameo appearance at the top of the show |
| 1:29.6 | to talk about an exciting live event that we have coming up. |
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