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Jan. 6: The Coup That Wasn’t, but Still Could Be

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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Legal Processes Aren't Serving Us

Walt Whitman: We're seeing a very broad based breakdown of our systems, and one of them involves the court system. Ever since about the 19 seventies, there has been strategy on the far right to put in not right leading judges, not even far right judges, but extremist judges. And so now we have a court system that is like swiss cheese. It has all these holes in it where it breaks down because of a lunatune judge or justice. That makes the judicial process very unpredictable. The more sober minded judges slower and more careful as well, because they know they're going to be appealed. So work through this with me, because i know both you and i

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