The Very Worst of SCOTUS 2023
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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🗓️ 30 December 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
From the Chief Justice seeing the funny side of stalking and harassment, to Justice Samuel Alito’s tiny violin, to fighting in the footnotes and a bench dissent snapback, to THAT painting, it’s been quite a year at One, First Street. Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Stern are back with their bottom 10 picks for the Supreme Court’s worst moments of 2023. But don’t despair, there is a glimmer of hope, one part of the SCOTUS beat sucked less this past year… Stay tuned to hear Dahlia and Mark reveal what facet of the Supreme Court multiverse actually improved in 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | The court today does what courts should not. |
| 0:05.0 | As our boys sit around in their gingham shirts and their weird surf shorts just mastering the universe. |
| 0:15.0 | His own court has collapsed into the squabble of partisan politics and two of its |
| 0:20.2 | members are maybe two of the most partisan justices who have ever served in history. |
| 0:26.0 | Still life in corruption and graft and quid pro quoism. |
| 0:31.8 | We have a very thin record. |
| 0:33.6 | I think that Alito is making a kind of category error here. |
| 0:37.3 | He said, she said situation. |
| 0:39.2 | John Roberts essentially flips the bird to the Senate Judiciary Committee. |
| 0:45.0 | We're all on the up and up. The salmon fishing is totally above board. |
| 0:49.0 | Just trust us to police ourselves. |
| 0:51.0 | Can't promise, I haven't said that. |
| 0:53.0 | Come out, come out for coffee. |
| 0:56.6 | You have my number. |
| 0:57.8 | Hello and welcome back to Amicus. This is of course Slate's podcast about the courts and |
| 1:07.0 | the law and the Supreme Court and democracy and from all of our families here it's late to yours we want to wish you a truly peaceful and happy holiday season and we want to wish you and yours a happy 2024. To light up the landing strip to 2024, Mark Joseph Stern and I have |
| 1:29.1 | opted to reprise. Last year we did this only for Slate Plus members, but this year, why not? |
| 1:35.0 | Fling the doors open. |
| 1:36.6 | And Reprise our New Year's theme from last year's show in which we counted down the top 10 crappiest suckiest and lamest |
| 1:47.4 | moments of the US Supreme Court's term and so this year we shall do the same with the 2023 year at the highest court in the land. |
| 1:58.7 | Needless to say, friends, this top 10 could take quite a while. |
| 2:03.0 | But honestly, as 2023 winds down, |
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