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

Feb. 29, 2020

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Dahlia Lithwick asks the new president of the American Constitution Society, Russ Feingold, if it’s too late for progressives to respond to the conservative steamroller that is the Federalist Society.

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