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Al Franken - Al and Dahlia Lithwick on The Monarchic Supreme Court
For the final episode of The Al Franken Podcast, we're joined one last time by our good friend Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor at Slate and host of the Amicus podcast!
As we await the Supreme Court’s remaining decisions, we turn to Dahlia to recap a bleak judicial term, including the decisions to gut the Voting Rights Act, strip immigrants of their Temporary Protected Status, and expel transgender servicemembers from the military.
Dahlia and Al look past the mainstream media's narrative of a "moderate" bench to reveal an institution deeply aligned with MAGA's political playbook that continues to make way for an imperial presidency.
On a more hopeful note, Dahlia offers a blueprint for how regular citizens can find their lane and fight back from the ground up. Dahlia issues a call for Americans to move past "learned helplessness" to dismantle the cult of the Court and return constitutional power to the people. - 06/28/2026.
LISTEN to Dahlia's podcast, Amicus: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/id928790786
READ Dahlia in Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/author/dahlia-lithwick
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A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to see Al Franken on his "Tour Tour" (Albany, New York). He performed for a couple of hours to a sold out crowd with only a microphone, a stool and three glasses of water. He talked a bit about his SNL days, but mostly about his time in the Senate. He told jokes, did impressions and said that when his committee was waiting, Dianne Feinstein would ask him to tell a joke and the others would argue about what it meant. And while he was still talking, he drew one of his famous maps of the states, said he'd sign it and donate it to a local Democratic charity. And at the end, the crowd was shouting for him to run again. We sure lost a great one when we lost him... *sigh* 