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06.08.2023 Did John Roberts Really Just Save Voting Rights? This episode is a part of Opinionpalooza. Slate’s coverage of Supreme Court decisions. We consider this coverage so essential that we’re taking down the paywall for all of it. If you would like to help us continue to cover the ...
06.03.2023 How SCOTUS Enabled The Explosion of Anti-Trans Laws This episode is a part of Opinionpalooza. Slate’s coverage of Supreme Court decisions. We consider this coverage so essential that we’re taking down the paywall for all of it. If you would like to help us continue to cover the ...
05.27.2023 Fixing The Court, One Story at a Time Take your seats for a live show from Washington DC this week. This live show is part of Slate’s Full Court Press coverage, a provocation for the fourth estate to hold the third branch of government to account. Dahlia Lithwick ...
05.26.2023 Bonus: SCOTUS Nukes Wetlands Protections In this bonus episode for Amicus Plus listeners, Dahlia Lithwick and Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern discuss the latest biggest Supreme Court decision: Sackett v EPA. It’s good news for developers and polluters, bad news for the rest of us. Sign ...
05.20.2023 E. Jean Carroll and the Lawyer Who Beat Trump Get your tickets for Amicus Live in Washington DC on May 24th here: https://slate.com/live/amicus-live-may-24-in-washington-d-c-full-court-press.html Dahlia Lithwick is joined by a pair of legal history-makers, E Jean Carroll and Roberta Kaplan. They discuss the landmark defamation and sexual abuse case they ...
05.13.2023 The Supreme Court's Dangerous Return to Its Roots Get your tickets for Amicus Live on May 24th. On this week’s Amicus, we head to Seattle for a live taping of the show at the Cross Cut Festival with guest Michael Waldman, President of NYU Law School’s Brennan Center. ...
05.06.2023 Clarence Thomas and the Billionaires After weeks of controversy, piled upon intrigue, heaped with scandal and topped with crisis at the Supreme Court, it can be hard to get your bearings. What’s illegal, what’s unethical, what’s just a bit hinky? And what does it really ...
04.22.2023 John Roberts’ Unfunny Stalking Jokes at SCOTUS As laughter ricocheted around the Supreme Court chamber Wednesday, Professor Mary Anne Franks wondered if she could quite believe her ears. The matter of some hilarity, it seems, were messages sent by a convicted stalker to his victim. Individual messages ...
04.15.2023 Anti-Abortion Lawyers Love this Zombie Law There’s a terrible legal Easter egg in Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk’s ruling on the abortion medication, Mifepristone. And that same Easter egg makes an appearance in the Fifth Circuit’s partial stay. It’s the Comstock Act - a mostly forgotten 19th ...
04.08.2023 Tennessee-Style Power Grabs are Coming to a State House Near You On this week’s Amicus Dahlia Lithwick is first joined by Sherrilyn Ifill, former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to talk about Tennessee and the mounting evidence of Republican state houses and governors finding novel ...
03.25.2023 What To Expect When You're Expecting An Indictment On this week’s Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick talks with Andrew Weissmann, former lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office and former Chief of the Fraud Section in the Department of Justice from 2015 - 2019. Together, they tackle the ...
03.11.2023 Lessons from The Trump Years for SCOTUS Dahlia Lithwick is joined by political analyst Michael Podhorzer (ex AFL-CIO, now newly-minted substacker). Michael was one of the all-hands-on-deck responsible for shoring up the 2020 election against subversion, he’s a political data geek, and for Amicus’s purposes - he’s ...
02.25.2023 SCOTUS on the Internet: “It’s Complicated” For every person screaming about Section 230 (looking at you, Ted Cruz), there are approximately 0.0000001 Danielle Citrons, i.e. folks who actually understand it, what it does, and how it might be tweaked or interpreted to do better. Luckily, we ...
02.11.2023 The "Stop the Steal" Fight That Never Ended Wisconsin’s State Supreme Court heard one of the landmark cases of the 2020 presidential election. During oral arguments in Trump v Biden in December 2020, Justice Jill J Karofsky participated in proceedings via Zoom from her office inside the state ...
01.28.2023 Absolutely No One Is Happy With the Dobbs Leak Investigation First, there was the Dobbs case. Then there was the leaked opinion in the Dobbs case. Then there was the investigation into the leaked opinion in the Dobbs case. Then there was the report on the investigation into the leak. ...
01.14.2023 The Labor Case Before SCOTUS Has Big Implications for Democracy Amicus is sponsored by Betterhelp. The Supreme Court of the United States got back into the swing of things its first week back after New Years, with a case about cement workers and the rights of organized labor. The “swing” ...
12.31.2022 Why are We Still Obsessed with Roe v Wade? For some, 2022 was the year Roe v Wade was overturned. For millions more, abortions rights had been functionally inaccessible for decades. Beyond shaky precedent, Roe was a vessel into which America threw all sorts of hopes, beliefs and fears. ...
12.17.2022 “Is This How We Do Law Now?” The highest court in the land has ignored the need for standing, the trial record, and of course precedent this past year––and it matters. Host Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Sherrilyn Ifill, former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal ...
12.03.2022 The Blockbuster Case You Probably Haven’t Heard About When Christian conservatives lost in Masterpiece Cake Shop back in 2018, they regrouped and picked up the trail of breadcrumbs from Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissent that suggested a freedom of speech approach. Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments ...
11.23.2022 Religious Liberty and the Right to Vacation in Jackson Hole When the New York Times built on previous reporting in Politico and Rolling Stone about an evangelical christian ministry that sought to sell access to and influence Supreme Court Justices with fancy dinners and donations, the Hobby Lobby leak dominated ...
11.19.2022 When You Take Away the Kids, You Take Away the Future “A Kitchen Sink Approach to Constitutional Claims” On this week’s Amicus, - the case that threatens the Indian Child Welfare Act, but also threatens domino effects on tribal sovereignty and land rights. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Rebecca Nagle, a ...
11.05.2022 Affirmative Action on the Chopping Block Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Cara McClellan, former counsel at NAACP LDF, and founding Director of the Advocacy for Racial and Civil Justice Clinic, at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Professor McClellan takes us through an extensive trial ...
10.22.2022 The Supreme Court Case that Could Upend Democracy Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Judge Michael Luttig for the definitive conversation on a giant elections case now on the calendar at the Supreme Court. Moore v Harper is a North Carolina redistricting case that is also a vehicle for ...
10.18.2022 Bonus: Time to Celebrate Some Wins Dahlia Lithwick is on the road with Amicus and Lady Justice. In this bonus episode, she’s joined by Loyola Law Professor, legal commentator and columnist Jessica Levinson for a conversation about what we can learn from the women lawyers who ...
10.08.2022 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Gives SCOTUS a History Lesson Dahlia Lithwick is joined by two key players from this week’s consequential voting rights cases at the US Supreme Court. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s senior counsel Deuel Ross argued part of Merrill v Milligan at the High ...
10.01.2022 A Hair-Raising SCOTUS Curtain-Raiser Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern and Jay Willis of Balls and Strikes for a preview of the big cases headed our way this Supreme Court term. They tackle cases concerning voting rights, indigenous rights, environmental protection ...
09.26.2022 Listen to Lady Justice Dahlia Lithwick’s new book Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America, tells the story of the women lawyers who stood up to Trump and stood up for those unseen and unrepresented by a brutal presidency, and ...
09.24.2022 The Sound of Worms Turning Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Mark Joseph Stern for a romp through the jurisprudential headlines. It’s been a week. Highlights include: Donald Trump’s legal woes in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation, and at the hands of New York Attorney General ...
09.17.2022 Lady Justice and Charlottesville Nazis Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Roberta Kaplan, who along with co-counsel Karen Dunn brought a successful civil suit against twenty-four neo-Nazi and white supremacist leaders responsible for organizing the racial- and religious-based violence in Charlottesville in August 2017. They discuss ...
09.10.2022 The Law v Lawless Edition Dahlia is joined by Mary Trump and Norm Ornstein to discuss how a single Trump-appointed judge’s attempt to stick a fork in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into potential mishandling of classified materials is part of a systemic story about ...
08.27.2022 The Clash Between Privacy and Freedom of the Press Law Professor and former journalist Amy Gajda joins Dahlia Lithwick to discuss her latest book, Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy. They chart a course through early conceptions of privacy to today’s fraught battles over ...
08.13.2022 Judge Victoria Pratt’s “The Power of Dignity” The quality of dignity is not strained. Judge Victoria Pratt presided for years over Municipal Court in Newark, New Jersey. Her experiences form the foundation of her book, The Power of Dignity: How Transforming Justice Can Heal Our Communities. In ...
07.30.2022 What the Dobbs Decision Means to Me In the second of Amicus’ Summer Series of interviews that step out of the day to day of jurisprudence to look at justice and the Supreme Court through a wide-angle lens, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by actor and playwright Heidi ...
07.16.2022 Eric Holder's Supreme Court Protest Dahlia Lithwick is joined by former Attorney General Eric Holder as Amicus begins its summer season while the Supreme Court is in recess. General Holder describes his feelings when, as President Barack Obama’s Attorney General, he realized he could not ...
07.09.2022 A Supreme Court Term Like No Other Dahlia Lithwick hosts Amicus’ annual term-ending breakfast table conversation, featuring Slate’s own Mark Joseph Stern, Professor Katherine Franke and Professor Nikolas Bowie. They dig into the biggest decisions of the term, and step back to survey where the court is ...
07.02.2022 SCOTUS Wraps, Precedent Collapses, and KBJ Takes her Oath The term is over, and the ground upon which all Americans stood, has fundamentally shifted. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Dorothy Roberts to discuss the reality of forced birth and family separation upon marginalized peoples in America. Dorothy is ...
06.28.2022 Slate Plus Bonus: Praying at the 50 Yard Line and Dunking on the Libs Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern on Kennedy v Bremerton School District: a referendum on the status of truth at the high court, and another nail in the coffin of the establishment clause. Slate Plus members have access to the ...
06.25.2022 Just Doing The Job They Were Put On The Court To Do Well it happened, Roe v Wade has been swept away and Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, and the author of “Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall ...
06.23.2022 Slate Plus Bonus: Carson v Makin Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern react to the Supreme Court’s decision in Carson v Makin, a blockbuster religious liberty case that sees the court traveling a long way in a short time, and trampling the establishment clause along the ...
06.18.2022 Somewhere, John Roberts is Screaming into an Expensive Pillow Dahlia Lithwick is joined by CNN legal analyst Joan Biskupic and election law Professor Richard Hasen for what could be called “Amicus: Wheels Coming Off Edition”. We’re still waiting for a bevy of blockbuster decisions, and despite Chief Justice John ...
06.11.2022 The January 6th Committee Revelations You Might Have Missed Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Ryan Goodman, professor of Law at NYU and co-editor-in-chief of Just Security. While we wait for the High Court to release opinions in a heaving pile of cases, the main constitutional action of the week ...
06.04.2022 Our Guns Problem is a Democracy Problem Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Mark Joseph Stern to tee up the final weeks of the Supreme Court term. Several blockbusters are still to come, from abortion to gun rights to religious liberty to climate action—and then there’s the shadow ...
05.28.2022 When a Shooter Comes to Your School In light of the Uvalde school shooting, we’re rebroadcasting a special audio presentation from Amicus that originally aired in 2018. Dahlia Lithwick spoke to three educators who survived gun violence at their schools. Heather Martin was a student at Columbine ...
05.21.2022 Why the Coming January 6th Hearings are So Important Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Ambassador Norm Eisen to discuss The Big Picture: democracy, the Rule of Law and the new volume he has co-written and edited, Overcoming Trumpery: How to Restore Ethics, the Rule of Law, and Democracy. Norm ...
05.05.2022 Learning from Pre-Roe to Navigate Post-Roe In a special live panel discussion in partnership with the Crosscut Festival, this week’s Amicus tackles the post-leak landscape and potential post-Roe fallout from Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs. An all-star panel, featuring law professor and podcast host ...
05.04.2022 The (draft) Opinion of the Court on Abortion In a special episode for Slate Plus members, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern for in-depth analysis of the stunning leaked draft opinion from Justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, the abortion case ...
04.23.2022 Rewriting Statutes Via Courts On this episode of Amicus – in studio edition! – host Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Lawrence O. Gostin, professor of global health law, at Georgetown University, among many other things. They talk about the federal district court in ...
04.09.2022 Fundamental Rights Doublespeak On the great legal history episode of Amicus, host Dahlia Lithwick is joined first by David Gans, director of the Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Citizenship Program at the Constitutional Accountability Center. While GOP Senators used the Ketanji Brown Jackson ...
03.26.2022 Ketanji Brown Jackson: Asked and Answered It was a week: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, Justice Clarence Thomas in the hospital, Ginni Thomas’ tweets in the hands of the Jan. 6 committee, and an out-of-the-blue redistricting decision on the shadow docket. First, Dahlia Lithwick is ...
03.19.2022 A Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation-Hearing Preview In a Slate Plus-exclusive episode, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern look ahead to next week’s hearings and lend their expert opinions on what’s likely to come up, what really matters, and who’s got the whole thing upside down. Sign ...

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

Did John Roberts Really Just Save Voting Rights?

How SCOTUS Enabled The Explosion of Anti-Trans Laws

Fixing The Court, One Story at a Time

Bonus: SCOTUS Nukes Wetlands Protections

E. Jean Carroll and the Lawyer Who Beat Trump

The Supreme Court's Dangerous Return to Its Roots

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaires

John Roberts’ Unfunny Stalking Jokes at SCOTUS

Anti-Abortion Lawyers Love this Zombie Law

Tennessee-Style Power Grabs are Coming to a State House Near You

What To Expect When You're Expecting An Indictment

Lessons from The Trump Years for SCOTUS

SCOTUS on the Internet: “It’s Complicated”

The "Stop the Steal" Fight That Never Ended

Absolutely No One Is Happy With the Dobbs Leak Investigation

The Labor Case Before SCOTUS Has Big Implications for Democracy

Why are We Still Obsessed with Roe v Wade?

“Is This How We Do Law Now?”

The Blockbuster Case You Probably Haven’t Heard About

Religious Liberty and the Right to Vacation in Jackson Hole

When You Take Away the Kids, You Take Away the Future

Affirmative Action on the Chopping Block

The Supreme Court Case that Could Upend Democracy

Bonus: Time to Celebrate Some Wins

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Gives SCOTUS a History Lesson

A Hair-Raising SCOTUS Curtain-Raiser

Listen to Lady Justice

The Sound of Worms Turning

Lady Justice and Charlottesville Nazis

The Law v Lawless Edition

The Clash Between Privacy and Freedom of the Press

Judge Victoria Pratt’s “The Power of Dignity”

What the Dobbs Decision Means to Me

Eric Holder's Supreme Court Protest

A Supreme Court Term Like No Other

SCOTUS Wraps, Precedent Collapses, and KBJ Takes her Oath

Slate Plus Bonus: Praying at the 50 Yard Line and Dunking on the Libs

Just Doing The Job They Were Put On The Court To Do

Slate Plus Bonus: Carson v Makin

Somewhere, John Roberts is Screaming into an Expensive Pillow

The January 6th Committee Revelations You Might Have Missed

Our Guns Problem is a Democracy Problem

When a Shooter Comes to Your School

Why the Coming January 6th Hearings are So Important

Learning from Pre-Roe to Navigate Post-Roe

The (draft) Opinion of the Court on Abortion

Rewriting Statutes Via Courts

Fundamental Rights Doublespeak

Ketanji Brown Jackson: Asked and Answered

A Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation-Hearing Preview

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