Emily Bazelon
speaker
591 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 22 Apr
Emily Bazelon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So it's like a kind of precursor to the civil rights movement.
I was thinking about a character who looms very large for me, different era entirely, Portia from Merchant of Venice, who, you know, deploys all the tactics of clever lawyers to try to change society.
what we think of now as the quality of mercy in the courts in her Shakespearean time, somehow that was like a comforting, reassuring sort of trial to go back to.
I mean, it's a time, obviously, of deep prejudice without a lot of the
safeguards of the rule of law that we think of now, but she was able to achieve a better result by making legal arguments.
So maybe I'm trying to be with you in some ways, David, in going back to a kind of touchstone where we can imagine lawyers having a good effect.
Thanks.
Fun.
The Justice Department has now officially opened a criminal investigation into Lisa Cook
They looked at Today Explained in there and did Today Explained in there.
We have no idea.
Lindsay Halligan is supposed to be the interim U.S.
attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
But a judge found that she was improperly appointed to that position.
The reason she was chosen for it is that she has been a personal lawyer for Donald Trump.
And her main area of practice is insurance law, not criminal justice.
The government seems to be out of control.
It's plagued with manipulation, corruption, greed, deceit and fraud.
Did she have any qualifications for the job?
She didn't have any experience as a prosecutor.
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