Trump’s Plan To Put A Chokehold On Voting
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🗓️ 29 March 2025
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Summary
The Trumpian inversion of reality was threaded into so many areas of the law and active litigation this week.
Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the apparent evaporation of judicial patience for Trump lawyers simultaneously claiming that a signal chat was not classified or subject to record preservation rules, AND the flights to El Salvador that were filmed for posterity on arrival at a prison were in fact state secrets. Together, they also think through the likelihood of the Supreme Court stepping into the Alien Enemies Act case at this early stage by just taking the Trump administration at its word that those summary renditions were totally legal and constitutionally correct.
Next, Dahlia Lithwick talks to Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School, about another Trumpian inversion of reality: his executive order titled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections”, which in fact is not about election integrity, but instead an extension of the Big Lie election theory that could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.
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| 1:11.3 | Hi, I'm Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 1:13.2 | Welcome to Amicus. |
| 1:14.5 | This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court. |
| 1:21.6 | The government has beclowned itself at every turn, not just the derogatory language insulting |
| 1:27.4 | the judiciary, but also the |
| 1:29.9 | obvious mistakes, the extensive reporting showing that they got the wrong guys. |
| 1:36.8 | The only document that it clearly accepts under this to register to vote is a passport. |
| 1:42.9 | So that is half of eligible American citizens could be disenfranchised with a stroke of a pen. |
| 1:54.4 | The past seven days have been yet another year's worth of rockam-sockham battles between lower federal courts and members of the Trump administration, |
| 2:03.1 | including specific and really vicious attacks by the president on law firms that have done work to oppose him, |
| 2:10.3 | and yet more impeachment efforts against federal judges. |
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