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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
A Huge Shift is Underway at SCOTUS
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The Second Reconstruction is being dismantled piece by piece, and this past month has seen that project attain terminal velocity. On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick talks with Stanford law professor and leading civil rights lawyer and scholar Pamela S Karlan, about a series of quick-fire moves from the high court and the Trump administration that, taken together, reveal a rapid disassembly of a series of hard-won civil rights laws in place for the past 50 years, known as the Second Reconstruction. From SCOTUS decisions in Callais and Milligan , to a new memo from the Justice Department revisiting equal employment protections, the United States’ framework for multiracial…