Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - When You Take Away the Kids, You Take Away the Future
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🗓️ 19 November 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
“A Kitchen Sink Approach to Constitutional Claims”
On this week’s Amicus, - the case that threatens the Indian Child Welfare Act, but also threatens domino effects on tribal sovereignty and land rights. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Rebecca Nagle, a Cherokee writer, advocate & language learner. Nagle is host of This Land podcast. Season 2 of the podcast was a deep and broad investigation into the background of the case at hand. Maggie Blackhawk also lends her expertise to the discussion, Professor Blackhawk (Find du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe) is professor of law at NYU and an award-winning interdisciplinary scholar and teacher of constitutional law, federal Indian law, and legislation, Together, they delve through a veritable grab bag of constitutional challenges from the plaintiffs in Brackeen v Haaland. Listen up, you’re about to learn a lot, we did.
In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Mark Joseph Stern to talk about how a Georgia judge overturned that state’s abortion ban, President Biden’s record and prospects for confirming judges, and death penalty cruelty on the shadow docket again.
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| 0:00.0 | If Native Americans are just a racial group and we're not members of sovereign indigenous nations, what racial group in the United States has its own police force, its own court system, its own elections, its own land, its own water rights, its own environmental regulations. |
| 0:21.7 | Preserving the integrity of tribes as self-governing sovereign entities and ensuring that tribes |
| 0:29.3 | could survive both culturally and politically. |
| 0:32.9 | Let's just throw every single possible constitutional challenge that they can think of against the statute. |
| 0:45.3 | Hi, and welcome to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the rule of law. |
| 0:52.5 | Since last we met, the midterm elections have taken place, |
| 0:56.0 | almost remarkably without incident, and something akin to lawfulness has settled comfortably |
| 1:03.1 | about the land. Election deniers were resoundingly sent packing. Clown show candidates were |
| 1:09.9 | largely repudiated in the five states that put |
| 1:13.9 | reproductive rights on the ballot. Reproductive rights won everywhere, including in like Kentucky. |
| 1:20.5 | Democrats now retain control of the Senate. Republicans take control of the House. |
| 1:25.2 | LGBTQ rights are being bolstered in a lame duck Congress, and |
| 1:29.5 | Clarence Thomas continues to participate in yet another matter related to the January 6th lawsuits. |
| 1:36.4 | In other news, former president and insurrection casual fomenter Donald J. Trump |
| 1:42.1 | announced that he will take another run at the presidency. |
| 1:47.1 | Later on, in the show, Slate Plus members will get to check in with Mark Joseph Stern to talk |
| 1:53.0 | about the Georgia abortion ban and Biden's judicial appointments. Slate Plus members get access |
| 1:58.9 | to bonus segments like my chat with Mark, |
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| 2:08.3 | What's more, Slate Plus members support all the journalism we do here on the show and at the magazine, |
| 2:15.2 | and we are always so, so grateful for that. |
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