Episode Notes
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Jessica Ring Amunson, who argued
Brnovich v. DNC at the Supreme Court this month, to take us inside the arguments and the key questions, and also to look at the wider landscape for voting rights.
Then Dahlia is joined by Jamal Greene who says Americans’ thinking about rights is all wrong, as they discuss his new book
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In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia to thrash out the major issues of the week we couldn’t get to in the main show, including racism at Georgetown University Law Center, Chief Justice John Roberts’ lone dissent, and the last of the kraken election cases batted away from the high court.
Why This County Is Giving Foster Youth $1,000 A Month, No Strings Attached
The first-in-the-nation program aims to support young people when they age out of the foster care system often with no security net whatsoever.
Sophia spent 21 years in the foster care system, but considers herself lucky.
Now 24, she has created a solid foundation for herself in Santa Clara County, California, studying for a master’s and mentoring other foster youth. But she’s very aware that not everyone coming out of the foster care system has been able to do the same. “Once the final transition has happened, it’s basically like you have no more support,” she told HuffPost.
Breonna Taylor s boyfriend files federal lawsuit against Louisville police
Family, friends honor Breonna Taylor 1 year after her death UP NEXT Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Police Department and the officers involved in the deadly shooting. The suit, filed together by multiple law firms Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, accused the LMPD of violating his constitutional rights. The lawsuit said LMPD s actions in the raid violated Walker s Fourth Amendment rights, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. This is a very important lawsuit to vindicate Kenneth Walker s constitutional rights under the U.S. Constitution, Cliff Sloan, a Georgetown University Law Center professor representing Walker in the suit, told ABC News. We are seeking to ensure that there is justice and accountability for the tragic and unjustified police assault on Kenneth Walker