2022-08-14 12:08:37
After a series of dramatic decisions by the US Supreme Court, the “wall between church and state has been almost completely eroded,” warns our guest Dahlia Lithwick, a senior journalist at Slate and a legal commentator for MSNBC.
In conversation with the host Allison Kaplan Sommershe highlights two recent cases decided by a new conservative court majority that prioritized the “religious freedom” of school employees and “destroyed” the idea that “schools, especially public schools, are meant to be where students could not face them. religious proselytizing.”
Lithwick, who lived in Charlottesville during 2017 “Agree the Right” march, also discussed the five-year anniversary of that horrific event, saying that “the great uneasiness that American Jews feel about being both recipients of Christian nationalism … while also recognizing that they are white and that they have white privilege even when the Nazi march is a flaw … in the way American Jews think about themselves and their power.”
Lithwick, who new book “Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America” which comes out in September, also discusses why the judges’ religious beliefs are a “third rail” for journalists like herself – from RBG Judaism to the Catholic judges who banned abortion, and the difference between Israelis “cynical” reflected on theirs. The Supreme Court to be highly political, and Americans who have been “gobsmacked” to find out that the court is “a partisan political body”.
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