Amicus: Remembering Sandra Day O’Connor

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor died Friday at the
age of 93. Amicus host Dahlia Lithwick is joined by former O’Connor
clerk and renowned First Amendment scholar RonNell Andersen Jones
to talk about the Justice’s trailblazing career, her judicial
philosophy, and the combination of humility and strength that
marked her time on the court, and away from it.  Later in the
show, Dahlia celebrates the joyous return of Mark Joseph Stern to
share some big announcements AND to discuss SEC v Jarkesy. As Mark
explains, the conservative justices seemed ready, willing, and able
to take another swing at the administrative state (AKA functioning
government). Mark Stern stays with us for this week’s Amicus Plus
segment, taking us through some good ol’ vote suppressing stuff
from MAGA-stacked lower courts choosing to ignore last term’s big
voting rights decision in Allen v Milligan. Remember that time
Chief Justice John Roberts and Brett Kavanagh saved voting rights?
Turns out these lower courts are saying - not so much.   Sign
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