The Verdict, the Video, and the Unreasonable Burden of Proof.
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🗓️ 24 April 2021
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Summary
In the wake of the conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd, journalism professor Allissa Richardson joins Dahlia Lithwick to discuss what it is to bear witness while Black in America, and why the media needs to stop airing the videos. (This is the interview with Vanita Gupta that Dahlia mentions.
In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern and Dahlia probe the duplicity at the high court in this week's shocking juvenile life without parole decision, why justices insisting they're best friends really isn't the answer to calls for court reform, and a look ahead to the biggest case so far this term that you probably haven't heard much about.
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| 0:00.0 | Who are these videos for now at this point? |
| 0:08.5 | Are they for people who really are interested in dismantling this form of policing that's |
| 0:14.2 | killed so many people? |
| 0:16.3 | Or are they just people looking at this as entertainment? |
| 0:19.2 | And at some point, we have to ask those tough questions. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi, and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the |
| 0:34.3 | Supreme Court. I'm Dahlia Lithwick. I cover the courts in the law for Slate. |
| 0:38.5 | There is a lot of news this week coming out of one first street, including a decision Thursday, |
| 0:45.3 | reinstating juvenile life without parole, another refusal by the High Court to take a big gun case, |
| 0:51.9 | and a reported $2 million book advance for the newest justice. |
| 0:57.6 | Justices Sotomayor, Breyer, and Gorsuch are all out stumping about how very, very well they |
| 1:03.8 | get along. |
| 1:05.1 | Coincidentally, they're doing that just as a bill to expand the size of the court was stomped |
| 1:10.7 | to death by Nancy Pelosi. |
| 1:12.8 | Later on in our Slate Plus segment, we are going to talk to Slate's Mark Joseph Stern about the shocking decision out of the courts this week in a juvenile life without parole case. |
| 1:24.3 | We're going to talk about Sonia Sotomayor and we're going to talk again about court reform. That conversation with Mark can only be accessed by Slate Plus members. If you'd |
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