Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - With Kennedy Gone, What’s on the Chopping Block?
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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🗓️ 30 June 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The Supreme Court’s 2017 term ended with some blockbuster opinions and, most dramatically, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement announcement. On a special edition of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Slate legal writer Mark Joseph Stern and University of California, Irvine, law professor Leah Litman to discuss what it all means.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Dahlia Lithwick, and I'm going to warn you at the top of the show that because of a technical glitch at CBC Studios in Canada, you may remember that they are a national threat to American security. |
| 0:12.6 | But as a result of a glitch here, I'm going to about halfway through this broadcast suddenly be on a Excel phone. |
| 0:20.3 | So don't write in and complain about the change in the audio because I'm warning you in |
| 0:24.4 | advance. |
| 0:31.2 | Justice Breyer had the best line of the term in his dissent, which was just really, question mark? |
| 0:44.7 | Hi, and welcome back to Amicus, Slate's podcast about the Supreme Court and the courts in the law. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 0:51.6 | I cover some of those things for Slate. |
| 0:53.5 | And this is our special |
| 0:54.9 | edition, Amicus, end of the year podcast. Joining me today to talk about what is certainly |
| 1:01.5 | the most seismic end of term I can remember is Slate's own Mark Joseph Stern, who covers the |
| 1:07.7 | courts in the law for us. Hi, Mark. Hi. And the divine Leah Lippman, who teaches law at the University of California. Irvine blogs frequently at Take Care in other places and has been a good friend of this show. Welcome back, Leah. Thank you so much for having me back. So welcome back to the both of you. I'm kind of guessing that you're both |
| 1:29.3 | much like me in some kind of weird fugue state at this juncture. So let's all agree that we're |
| 1:35.4 | going to try to speak in short declarative sentences and hope for the best. Yes? Deal. Sounds good to me. |
| 1:41.8 | Okay. So I guess we're going to start with Anthony Kennedy because his retirement on Wednesday |
| 1:48.3 | quickly became the story of the term, maybe of a generation, maybe of our lifetimes. |
| 1:55.0 | So I think I just want to start by asking, were either of you surprised at this announcement? |
| 2:00.3 | I know, Mark, you were right |
| 2:01.7 | here on amicus a few short weeks ago, assuring us he was not going anywhere. So were you surprised? |
| 2:09.2 | Why did you have to ask me that question last time I was on, Dahlia? You just set me up for failure. |
| 2:14.8 | It's devastating to me that you solicited this terrible prediction from me at the |
| 2:20.8 | worst possible time. No, of course I was surprised because you and I have been telling each other |
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