Woulda, Coulda SCOTUS
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Adam Cohen to talk about Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America, and whether Merrick Garland should heed calls to reinvestigate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern on Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid, the big union case before the court this week, guns at the 9th Circuit, and Georgia’s vote-suppression legislation push.
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| 0:00.0 | If Fortis had not been driven off the court through real shenanigans and illegality by Nixon, |
| 0:11.6 | that fifth liberal vote would have been there to give poor kids all across America a better start in life. Hi, and welcome back to Amicus. |
| 0:27.1 | This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law, the rule of law, voting, and the |
| 0:32.5 | Supreme Court. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 0:34.7 | The court heard arguments this week in a couple of cases, including a key question about unions. |
| 0:41.1 | The court is also back in the news because of new pressure coming from the left that is being imposed on Justice Stephen Breyer, wanting him to step down immediately and let Joe Biden name his successor, and also calls by Senator Sheldon White House of Rhode Island for Merrick Garland to reopen the investigation into Brett Kavanaugh |
| 1:02.3 | that he feels was not complete at the time of his confirmation. |
| 1:07.0 | And we're going to be delving into some of that with our guests this week. |
| 1:10.5 | Efforts to oust justices from the not so long ago past tell us that the more things change, |
| 1:17.6 | the more they don't ever really change at all. |
| 1:20.9 | Later on for our Slate Plus members, Mark Joseph Stern is going to come in to talk about |
| 1:25.7 | that big union's case at the court, guns at the 9th Circuit, and Georgia's massive pitch to suppress so many votes that Senate Democrats will eventually kill the filibuster. |
| 1:37.2 | In addition to an exclusive biweekly romp through all of jurisprudence with Mark Stern in the member's only segment of this show. |
| 1:45.5 | Slate Plus members also get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like |
| 1:51.8 | Slow Burn and Dear Prudence, and of course, you'll be supporting the work that we do here on Amicus. |
| 1:56.9 | It's only $1 for the first month to sign up. |
| 2:00.4 | Please go to slate.com slash amicus plus, |
| 2:03.1 | and as ever, we thank you for your support. But first, we want to tackle an issue. We often talk |
| 2:09.1 | around on this podcast without necessarily speaking directly to it, and that is poverty. We have |
| 2:15.1 | certainly discussed components of income inequality on the show, whether it's |
| 2:19.1 | about granting speech rights to billionaire donors who want to influence political campaigns, |
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