Why the Coming January 6th Hearings are So Important
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🗓️ 21 May 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Ambassador Norm Eisen to discuss The Big Picture: democracy, the Rule of Law and the new volume he has co-written and edited, Overcoming Trumpery: How to Restore Ethics, the Rule of Law, and Democracy. Norm and Dahlia look back to January 6th 2021, and ahead to the coming hearings and the midterms.
In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Mark Joseph Stern to talk about Ted Cruz’s victory at the Supreme Court, and what it means for what’s left of campaign finance law, the stunning decision out of the 5th circuit that questions the constitutionality of, well, pretty much the whole of the civil service… And Oklahoma’s new abortion ban law that picks up Texas’ vigilante reproductive regulation and runs with it.
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| 0:00.0 | These seven deadly sins of Trumpery, we independently derive them from the evidence. |
| 0:10.5 | But then once I had them, I'm like, oh, this is just uniquely American-flavored autocracy. |
| 0:24.8 | Hi, and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 0:30.9 | This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court and the rule of law. |
| 0:38.6 | And this week's show is actually about that latter topic, about which I have been known to fret. |
| 0:44.9 | So I'm Dahlia Lithwick. I cover the courts for Slate, and it is less than six months out from the midterm elections, a year plus out from January 6, 2021, a day which maybe should have |
| 0:53.7 | lived on in infamy, but somehow manages to either be |
| 0:58.1 | forgotten or dismissed, or likened to just hapless tourists lost on the way to the |
| 1:06.7 | capital gift shop, or just last week in the mouth of Senator Ted Cruz, likened to a peaceful |
| 1:12.5 | protest in comparison to abortion rights protesters who are at the homes of Supreme Court |
| 1:19.1 | justices. On January 6th of 2021, you had tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting, and yet |
| 1:26.3 | the corporate media and Democrats slander |
| 1:28.8 | them with the made-up term insurrectionist. And yet, in this instance, they are not willing |
| 1:35.4 | to call off their goons even now, even now as this has the potential to escalate and |
| 1:41.3 | escalate further. But of course, it's not just about January 6th and it's not just mass. |
| 1:46.8 | Shooting is rooted in the, quote, great replacement theory that Tucker Carlson keeps talking about |
| 1:52.5 | and saying he never talks about. |
| 1:54.5 | This is not just the Pennsylvania election this week in which a Trumpist election denier cruises |
| 1:59.7 | to victory, not just Clarence Thomas, |
| 2:02.7 | whose wife apparently was trying to set aside the Arizona election results in 2020. |
| 2:08.4 | It's not just vicious, racist, racist claims that, yes, life begins at conception, but migrant |
| 2:14.7 | babies do not deserve infant formula. It's not any one piece of this breakdown and |
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