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Sidney Powell could be the former President’s “Sammy the Bull”, but that won’t necessarily protect democracy.

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · Slate Audio

October 21, 202352m 37s

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Show Notes

As MAGA Republicans engage in extremist arm wrestling in the House Speaker race, and the sins of the 2020 election subversion scheme catch up with Donald Trump’s closest allies, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by brand new MacArthur “genius grant” recipient Ian Bassin of Protect Democracy to take a look at the stakes of this moment for American democracy. An attempt to walk and chew gum at the same time, Protect Democracy’s work focuses on the incremental ways the law can be applied to protect election workers and inhibit disinformation, while also looking to the big constitutional and cultural questions we have to answer if we’re going to reject authoritarianism.


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