The Threat of National Emergency
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
Slate Audio
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
What would a national emergency look like, and why hasn't Trump declared one yet? Dahlia Lithwick has answers and joins What Next, Slate's new daily news podcast, Plus: Was it weird that Ruth Bader Ginsburg wasn't at work this week?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone, it's me, Dahlia, and I am not here today with a new episode of amicus. We are off this week, |
| 0:06.4 | but I am here with something nice. This week I joined What Next, Slate's new fantastic daily podcast to talk about, |
| 0:14.6 | among other things, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and whether you should freak out |
| 0:19.9 | about her absence from oral arguments this past week. |
| 0:23.4 | What Next is one of my favorite new shows of this year, and I will be a frequent commentator on the program if they'll have me. |
| 0:30.6 | It's hosted by longtime journalist and podcaster Mary Harris. |
| 0:35.0 | What Next will be coming to you each and every weekday with smart |
| 0:38.2 | critical analysis from inside Slate's newsroom. Every episode of the show tackles some of the |
| 0:44.3 | biggest issues and questions facing American politics and culture and society. And there is |
| 0:49.7 | really nobody better to do this than Mary. If you like what you hear, I do encourage you to |
| 0:54.7 | subscribe to this podcast in its own feed. It's the very best way to support the show and also |
| 0:59.8 | to support all the journalism that we do here at Slate. Thank you so much for listening. Enjoy. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm just, oh, are you cold? |
| 1:11.7 | Get out of here. |
| 1:15.4 | President Trump seemed to be losing patience with the press conference. |
| 1:16.9 | About one week ago, today. |
| 1:19.2 | No, I'm just saying, should we keep this going a little bit? |
| 1:19.3 | Please. |
| 1:20.2 | Yes, indeed. |
| 1:20.9 | Go ahead. |
| 1:22.0 | Let me know when you get tired. |
| 1:28.0 | And that's when he revealed this one last trick he has up his sleeve when it comes to the border wall he wants to build. Have you considered using emergency powers to grant yourself authorities to build this |
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