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A program about the law, and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America. Part of the Panoply Network.

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07.20.2019

In a week marked by rising rancor, when racist rhetoric ricocheted out of the president’s twitter feed and into a chanting crowd at his reelection rally, the end of an era almost slid under the radar. Dahlia Lithwick reflects on ...

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, Justice, and the Courts episodes:

07.20.2019 The End of an Era, and the Cult of the Constitution. In a week marked by rising rancor, when racist rhetoric ricocheted out of the president’s twitter feed and into a chanting crowd at his reelection rally, the end of an era almost slid under the radar. Dahlia Lithwick reflects on ...
07.06.2019 High Crimes and Misdemeanors Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Frank Bowman, author of the upcoming book High Crimes and Misdemeanors, A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump about the big question: Impeachment, its historical precedent, constitutional roots, and present day predicaments. Learn ...
06.29.2019 Ready, Set, Gerrymander! A round table round-up of the 2018 Supreme Court term with Dahlia Lithwick, Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern, Professor Pam Karlan of Stanford and Professor Leah Litman of the University of Michigan Law School. Analysis of the census case, the gerrymandering ...
06.28.2019 Trumpcast: An Interview With E. Jean Carroll Dahlia Lithwick joins Trumpcast as a special guest co-host for an intimate conversation with journalist E. Jean Carroll, author of "What Do We Need Men For."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.22.2019 Flowers, Crosses, Clauses and Oaths A flurry of decisions this week, but few big-ticket items. Mark Joseph Stern takes us through the opinions and dissents in Flowers v Mississippi, Gundy v United States and American Legion v American Humanist Association. Dahlia Lithwick is also joined ...
06.08.2019 Clarence Thomas Said What? When Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a 20 page concurrence to the Indiana abortion law case last week, Adam Cohen’s phone started blowing up. In making an argument linking abortion rights to eugenics, Justice Thomas repeatedly cited Cohen’s book, Imbeciles: The ...
05.25.2019 “Slouching Toward Gilead” A swathe of draconian abortion laws have been passed by states around the country in the past few weeks, but Alabama outdid them all. Legislators there are clearly hoping Justice Kavanagh will nullify Roe v Wade with a stroke of ...
05.11.2019 A Judge, on Judging Judges are at the center of every conversation on Amicus, but never as guests on the show. Until today. Dahlia Lithwick has a wide-ranging and illuminating conversation with Robert Lasnik, Senior United States District Judge of the United States District ...
04.27.2019 The Fight for LGBTQ Protections Under the Civil Rights Act Mark Joseph Stern guest hosts and digs into two cases in the Supreme Court this week. First, the court’s questioning if Title VII of the Civil Rights Act extends to LGBTQ protections. Then, the addition of the citizenship question on ...
04.18.2019 Extra: Redactionist History Dahlia Lithwick is joined by former department of Justice spokesperson Matt Miller and Fordham Law Professor Jed Shugerman for a read of the (redacted) Mueller report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
04.13.2019 Death Penalty Dust-Ups at the High Court Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker, co-author of Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment to explore recent death penalty cases before the Supreme Court and why the 8th amendment has raised tensions among ...
03.30.2019 Kavanaugh and Kagan Had a Moment Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern unpack the arguments in the North Carolina and Maryland gerrymander cases heard by the Supreme Court this week, and Aaron Belkin of advocacy group Pack the Courts tells us why packing the courts is ...
03.16.2019 Lawyers are Tackling our Democracy Problem Via the Take Care Clause Dahlia Lithwick pans back this week to assess what’s holding and what’s buckling in terms of norms and institutions, two years and change into the Trump presidency. She’s joined by Ian Bassin of Protect Democracy, a new kind of litigation ...
03.02.2019 The Case Regarding the So-Called Emergency Dahlia Lithwick is joined by conservative lawyer Stuart Gerson and finds common ground over the President’s declaration of a national emergency so he can build the wall. And Leah Litman helps us take a lawyerly look at Michael Cohen’s testimony ...
02.16.2019 Parsing the Shadow Docket This episode is brought to you by Simplisafe. Start protecting your home today at simplisafe.com/amicus.Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Dean Risa Goluboff and Vice-Dean Leslie Kenrick of the University of Virginia School of Law. Together, they tackle issues of race ...
02.09.2019 Amicus Presents: The Pre-Crime Unit Predictive policing technology is spreading across the country, and Los Angeles is the epicenter. A small group of LA activists are in a lopsided campaign against billions of dollars in city, federal, and Silicon Valley money using algorithms to predict ...
02.02.2019 What Did We Learn From The Trans Ban Injunction Decision? Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Sharon McGowan, legal director of Lambda Legal, to discuss how they’re fighting the trans ban following SCOTUS decision to lift the injunctions on the policy going into action. Also, Dahlia gets the latest on the ...
01.19.2019 We’re Back to Where Mueller Began: Counterintelligence UPDATE: On the evening Friday January 18th, after production of this episode of Amicus had wrapped, special counsel spokesman Peter Carr issued the following statement: "BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and ...
01.11.2019 The Threat of National Emergency What would a national emergency look like, and why hasn't Trump declared one yet? Dahlia Lithwick has answers and joins What Next, Slate's new daily news podcast, Plus: Was it weird that Ruth Bader Ginsburg wasn't at work this week?Tell ...
01.05.2019 Chief Justice John Roberts, a Rock, and a Hard Place Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst and author of the upcoming book The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts, to unpack John Roberts’ State of the Judiciary address, and to examine ...
12.22.2018 The Incrementalist RBG Before news of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lung surgery broke, Dahlia Lithwick sat down for a revealing conversation with the screenwriter Daniel Stiepelman about the RBG biopic he penned, On The Basis of Sex. Stiepelman also happens to be Justice ...
12.08.2018 Mapping the Mueller Investigation *This week's show was recorded before Friday's filings concerning Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, but the merits of the discussion stand. Mimi Rocah, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, now a Criminal Justice Fellow at ...
11.24.2018 A Hard Line on Acosta’s Hard Pass Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Ted Boutrous, who represented CNN and Jim Acosta in their case against the White House. Jim Acosta’s “hard pass” or permanent press pass, was revoked by the Trump administration after Acosta clashed with the President ...
11.10.2018 “Taking a Wrecking Ball to Our Constitution” Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Neal Katyal, former acting Solicitor General under President Barack Obama and co-author of this op-ed in The New York Times. Also on Amicus this week, Dale Ho, director of the ACLU’s voting rights project on ...
11.03.2018 SPECIAL: The Deadly Shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue Dahlia Lithwick and her son Coby talk to Rabbi Chuck Diamond about the deadly shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Diamond was the rabbi at Tree of Life for seven years and originally met Dahlia when she ...
10.27.2018 Docket Deep Dive and Is It Time to Freak Out About Voting? Dahlia Lithwick talks with Slate’s own Mark Joseph Stern about what to look out for this term. Professor of law and political science at UC Irvine, Rick Hasen discusses how free and fair the midterm elections will be in light ...
10.22.2018 Amicus Presents: Legal Wars The courtroom can be a battlefield over money, people’s rights, and even their lives. For some cases, the consequences can affect us long after the verdict is read. Based on extensive interviews and court transcripts, Wondery’s new podcast LEGAL WARS ...
10.13.2018 Due Processing Dahlia Lithwick talks with Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon about the “deep wounds” in the senate following Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation. And she’s joined by Vox’s Matthew Yglesias who brings his nihilism about the institution of the Supreme Court to the ...
10.01.2018 Live from Austin In a special episode recorded live at Slate Day during Tribfest in Austin, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Dean of Boston University Law School, Cristina Rodriguez, Leighton Homer Surbeck professor of law at Yale Law School, Stephen Vladeck, ...
09.29.2018 The Press, The President, and Enemy Construction This week Dahlia Lithwick looks at freedom of the press through the lens of legal scholarship. Lithwick is joined by Professor Lisa Sun of Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School and RonNell Andersen Jones, the Lee E. Teitelbaum ...
09.24.2018 Introducing Slate Day Join Dahlia Lithwick for a conversation on the Supreme Court with Angela Onwuachi-Willig, dean and professor of law at Boston University; Cristina Rodríguez, a professor of law at Yale University; Stephen Vladeck, professor of law at the University of Texas, ...
09.20.2018 SPECIAL: Surviving a School Shooting, From a Teacher's Point of View In an intimate conversation, three educators who survived school shootings talk to Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick about the trauma of going back to the classroom. For a transcript, visit Slate.com/TeacherPodcastLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
09.15.2018 Roe v Kavanaugh Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Melissa Murray of NYU Law School, who gave blistering testimony at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings last week. They talk Roe v Wade, when precedent counts and when it doesn’t, and what the likely confirmation ...
09.01.2018 Back to School Protest Special Student activism is back in America’s schools. Young people mobilizing around gun safety and social justice issues are heading back to school. We talk to Mary Beth Tinker, who took her fight for the right to protest at school all ...
08.18.2018 Barbie, Bratz, and Who Owns Your Dreams? You Don’t Own Meis Orly Lobel’s fascinating examination of a landmark legal battle between plastic dolls. The Mattel v MGA, Barbie v Bratz case exposed questions about gender, culture and rights in the workplace. This episode of Amicus takes you ...
08.04.2018 A Taftian Antidote to Trumpian Excesses Amicus’ summer of exploring great legal writing continues this week with Jeff Rosen, whose biography of William Howard Taft reveals a president who was scrupulous in observing constitutional boundaries, and much happier on the bench than in the White House. ...
07.21.2018 The Scalia Factor In the first of a series of deep dives into great legal reads this summer, Dahlia Lithwick talks with Rick Hasen, author of “The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption” about civil discourse, rock star justices, ...
07.07.2018 The Argument That Could Reclaim the Supreme Court for Democrats This week Dahlia LIthwick talks with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic senator from Rhode Island, about what we can expect over the next several months as Donald Trump nominates a new associate justice to the Supreme Court. He talks about ...
06.30.2018 With Kennedy Gone, What’s on the Chopping Block? The Supreme Court’s 2017 term ended with some blockbuster opinions and, most dramatically, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement announcement. On a special edition of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Slate legal writer Mark Joseph Stern and University of California, Irvine, ...
06.23.2018 Voting: Purging, Packing, Cracking, Standing Dahlia Lithwick takes a close look at the two big voting rights cases decided by the Supreme Court earlier this week with Paul Smith who argued for the plaintiffs in the Wisconsin political gerrymander case Gill v. Whitford. On Monday, ...
06.13.2018 Bonus: Live From the ACLU Dahlia Lithwick moderates a discussion of civil rights and legal norms in the Trump era with the ACLU’s David Cole, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Vanita Gupta, former White House chief ethics counsel ...
06.09.2018 Religious Belief, Sincerely Held An epic Amicus this week, with a thorough analysis of Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission with Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern. What does is tell us about Justice Anthony Kennedy’s plans, and can it tell us anything about the ...
05.26.2018 The Impeachment Question While President Trump demands an investigation into the investigators investigating the investigation, the clamour to impeach grows ever more fervent in some quarters. Dahlia Lithwick explores the legal and constitutional questions surrounding impeachment with constitutional scholar and Harvard Law Professor ...
05.12.2018 The State of the State Attorneys General As the ripples from New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s resignation after allegations of violence against women continue, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey joins Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the role of State Attorneys General and how that’s changing under ...
04.27.2018 Travel Ban 3.0 and Rinsing off Religious Animus for SCOTUS This week Amicus takes you inside the chamber for a forensic discussion of the last, and possibly the most significant, oral arguments of this Supreme Court term. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Josh Geltzer, executive director of the Institute for ...
04.14.2018 The Rule of Law and the Ethics of Poking the Bear It seems as though a slow motion constitutional crisis may be upon us. In this episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Lawfare blog editor and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Ben Wittes, to assess the threats to ...
03.31.2018 Don’t Call It an Abortion Case On this week’s show, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Priscilla Smith, director of the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School, to unpack the oral arguments in NIFLA v Becerra, the latest case on the calendar ...
03.17.2018 All The President's Lawyers This week Dahlia Lithwick calls on white-collar-crime specialist Jennifer Taub to follow the money in the Mueller investigation. She also speaks with Bob Bauer, a former White House counsel under President Barack Obama, about the relationship between presidents and their ...
03.03.2018 When Did Corporations Become People? On this week’s show, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by UCLA Law Professor Adam Winkler to talk about his new book We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. Together, they also examine what the constitutionalizing of corporate rights ...
02.17.2018 A Preview of a Union-Busting Case, and RBG’s Greatest Hits Tour In this week’s episode, Professor Leah Litman joins Dahlia Lithwick to tune into Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments on #MeToo and due process. And for a full background check on the sexy-sounding Janus v. AFSCME case, which potentially poses an ...

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, Justice, and the Courts episodes:

The End of an Era, and the Cult of the Constitution.

High Crimes and Misdemeanors

Ready, Set, Gerrymander!

Trumpcast: An Interview With E. Jean Carroll

Flowers, Crosses, Clauses and Oaths

Clarence Thomas Said What?

“Slouching Toward Gilead”

A Judge, on Judging

The Fight for LGBTQ Protections Under the Civil Rights Act

Extra: Redactionist History

Death Penalty Dust-Ups at the High Court

Kavanaugh and Kagan Had a Moment

Lawyers are Tackling our Democracy Problem Via the Take Care Clause

The Case Regarding the So-Called Emergency

Parsing the Shadow Docket

Amicus Presents: The Pre-Crime Unit

What Did We Learn From The Trans Ban Injunction Decision?

We’re Back to Where Mueller Began: Counterintelligence

The Threat of National Emergency

Chief Justice John Roberts, a Rock, and a Hard Place

The Incrementalist RBG

Mapping the Mueller Investigation

A Hard Line on Acosta’s Hard Pass

“Taking a Wrecking Ball to Our Constitution”

SPECIAL: The Deadly Shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue

Docket Deep Dive and Is It Time to Freak Out About Voting?

Amicus Presents: Legal Wars

Due Processing

Live from Austin

The Press, The President, and Enemy Construction

Introducing Slate Day

SPECIAL: Surviving a School Shooting, From a Teacher's Point of View

Roe v Kavanaugh

Back to School Protest Special

Barbie, Bratz, and Who Owns Your Dreams?

A Taftian Antidote to Trumpian Excesses

The Scalia Factor

The Argument That Could Reclaim the Supreme Court for Democrats

With Kennedy Gone, What’s on the Chopping Block?

Voting: Purging, Packing, Cracking, Standing

Bonus: Live From the ACLU

Religious Belief, Sincerely Held

The Impeachment Question

The State of the State Attorneys General

Travel Ban 3.0 and Rinsing off Religious Animus for SCOTUS

The Rule of Law and the Ethics of Poking the Bear

Don’t Call It an Abortion Case

All The President's Lawyers

When Did Corporations Become People?

A Preview of a Union-Busting Case, and RBG’s Greatest Hits Tour

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