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

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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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Immunity, Impunity, and Jus...

05.23.2020

A big show for the long weekend. First, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Leah Litman of the University of Michigan Law School to discuss oral arguments in the Trump financial records cases, and to get granular with the question of ...

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

05.23.2020 Immunity, Impunity, and Justice by the Numbers A big show for the long weekend. First, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Leah Litman of the University of Michigan Law School to discuss oral arguments in the Trump financial records cases, and to get granular with the question of ...
05.09.2020 Big Days for Justice Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Susan Hennessey, national security analyst and executive editor of Lawfare to discuss the ramifications of the Justice Department’s decision to drop the case against Michael Flynn. Later in the show, Lithwick is joined by veteran ...
04.25.2020 States’ Rights Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Colorado State Attorney General Phil Weiser to talk about how states’ rights fit into the picture of America that’s emerging in this pandemic. In the Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia to talk ...
04.11.2020 Why, Wisconsin? Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Marc Elias, chair of Perkins Coie’s Political Law Group, he represents the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Together, they reconstruct how the Supreme Court stepped into Wisconsin’s April election, and what ...
03.28.2020 Protecting Democracy in a Pandemic Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Ian Bassin, former associated White House counsel from 2009-11 and co-founder of Protect Democracy for a look at the pain points, tensions, and glimmers of hope in how this constitutional democracy is handling the unprecedented ...
03.14.2020 The Law of Public Health Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Michele Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at the University of California Irvine School of Law. Professor Goodwin unpacks the oral arguments in this ...
02.29.2020 Have Progressives Lost the Courts for Good? 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. Slate Plus members have access to a bonus segment in ...
02.26.2020 Election Meltdown, Professor Brendan Nyhan Brendan Nyhan is a political science professor at Dartmouth College who focuses on misinformation and so-called fake news. His views on how fake news affects election outcomes might surprise you. Try Slate Plus free: slate.com/amicusplus Podcast production by Sara Burningham. ...
02.22.2020 Election Meltdown, Part 5 In the fifth and final part of this special series of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined live on stage in Washington by former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, MacArthur fellow Professor Danielle Citron of Boston University law school, director of ...
02.15.2020 Election Meltdown, Part 4 In the fourth part of this special five-part series of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by election law professor Rick Hasen and Professor Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of One ...
02.08.2020 Election Meltdown, Part 3 In the third part of this special five-part series of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by election law professor Rick Hasen to unpack the bag of dirty tricks that may be deployed in 2020’s election, and to examine the debris ...
02.02.2020 Election Meltdown, Part 2 In the second part of a special five-part series of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by election law professor Rick Hasen to take a close look at what happened with Michigan’s failed recounts in 2016, exploring how small mistakes can ...
02.01.2020 Impeachment's Aftermath Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Barbara McQuade, professor of law at the University of Michigan and former U.S attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, to explore the ramifications of the last two weeks in the Senate. Join us for ...
01.25.2020 Election Meltdown, Part 1 Despite winning the Electoral College vote in 2016, President Donald Trump still claimed widespread voter fraud had robbed him of millions of votes. In the first part of a special five-part series of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by election ...
01.18.2020 A Trial That's Not A Trial Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Neil Eggleston, White House Counsel during the last three years of the Obama Administration. He also represented the Office of the President in privilege litigation against the Starr Independent Counsel’s Office during the President Clinton ...
01.07.2020 What Is Impeachment For? In a conversation taped live at the Aspen Institute, Dahlia Lithwick speaks to former acting solicitor general of the United States Neal Katyal about impeachment, and how he approaches is it as an “extremist centrist.” Katyal’s book, co-written with Sam ...
01.04.2020 Buckle Up, John Roberts Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Slate’s own Mark Joseph Stern to discuss Chief Justice John Roberts’ New Year’s resolutions on the judiciary, impeachment, and this Supreme Court term. Stern’s book American Justice 2019: The Roberts Court Arrives is out now. ...
12.21.2019 Divided Realities Dahlia Lithwick is joined by three women using their legal experience to advocate for people trying to navigate the ever-changing, labyrinthine process of claiming asylum in the United States. It’s tough work, and they are volunteering in the face of ...
12.18.2019 Slate Presents: Lockdown If you have any school-aged children in your life, you know that lockdown and active shooter drills have become a routine part of their school experience. These drills now take place in 95 percent of American schools. What you’re about ...
12.07.2019 Impeaching Other Presidents Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Kate Shaw, a professor of law at Cardozo Law School and the co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. They talk about presidential speech, impeachment, and why figuring out what happens next involves taking ...
11.28.2019 Bonus: A Conversation About Conversations With RBG A special bonus live episode from the National Constitution Center. Dahlia Lithwick in conversation with Jeffrey Rosen about his new book Conversations With RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsberg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law. Podcast production by Sara Burningham, with thanks ...
11.23.2019 Your Move, Mitch Dahlia Lithwick wants to know what’s next in the impeachment process, so she asks Professor Michael Gerhardt, an expert on constitutional law and the relationship between congress and the president. Then, former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet ...
11.16.2019 Live Bonus: Press Freedom Recorded at the Miami Book Fair, in partnership with the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Laura Moscoso from the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo in Puerto Rico; Norah Gamez-Torres, who covers Cuba for ...
11.09.2019 A Look at the Original Quid Pro Quo: Emoluments. Dahlia Lithwick calls former prosecutor Mimi Rocah for an answer to a question Amicus listeners often ask. She then asks Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, if all hope is lost for the federal judiciary. Finally, she revisits emoluments with Deepak Gupta ...
10.29.2019 Bonus: Impeachment and the “Spy Stuff” Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, to talk about the role of intelligence and counterintelligence in the Mueller probe, the impeachment inquiry, and the damage deep state fever dreams ...
10.26.2019 The Conservative Legal Resistance Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Stuart Gerson of the conservative legal group Checks and Balances to talk about developments in the border-wall case he helped bring in El Paso, Texas; the view of impeachment from concerned conservatives; and the latest ...
10.12.2019 Impeachment Primer Dahlia Lithwick is joined by all-star SCOTUS experts to walk us through this week’s biggest legal and constitutional developments. First, Laurence Tribe answers the questions Amicus listeners have been asking about the next steps in the impeachment process. Next, Pamela ...
10.05.2019 Get Ready for the Most Significant Supreme Court Term in a Decade Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, who explains the biggest cases facing the Supreme Court this term. Then Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, ...
09.28.2019 How Donald Trump Weaponizes the Law Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Walter Dellinger to discuss impeachment, and the role of White House lawyers in “Ukraine-gate”. And James Zirin, author of Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits , breaks down the President’s ...
09.14.2019 The Clerk’s Eye View of Justice John Paul Stevens Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Sonja West of the University of Georgia School of Law and Professor Jamal Greene of Columbia Law School, both former clerks to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. They discuss his life, legacy, and ...
08.31.2019 Redefining The Executive Power Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Julian Mortenson, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan to discuss his work to re-frame the conversation around “the executive power”. His paper, “Article II Vests Executive Power, Not The Royal Prerogative” traces the ...
08.17.2019 Lawyers, Who Needs 'Em? Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Rebecca Sandefur, who turns a sociologist’s eye to civil justice. Civil justice problems can lead to bankruptcy, homelessness, illness, family separation and poverty, but Sandefur says what makes it to the courts is just the ...
08.03.2019 Let's Start with Race Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Michele Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine, for a wide reaching conversation about race and gender and the stories America tells itself so it can sleep at night. Starting with ...
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 ...
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 ...

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

Immunity, Impunity, and Justice by the Numbers

Big Days for Justice

States’ Rights

Why, Wisconsin?

Protecting Democracy in a Pandemic

The Law of Public Health

Have Progressives Lost the Courts for Good?

Election Meltdown, Professor Brendan Nyhan

Election Meltdown, Part 5

Election Meltdown, Part 4

Election Meltdown, Part 3

Election Meltdown, Part 2

Impeachment's Aftermath

Election Meltdown, Part 1

A Trial That's Not A Trial

What Is Impeachment For?

Buckle Up, John Roberts

Divided Realities

Slate Presents: Lockdown

Impeaching Other Presidents

Bonus: A Conversation About Conversations With RBG

Your Move, Mitch

Live Bonus: Press Freedom

A Look at the Original Quid Pro Quo: Emoluments.

Bonus: Impeachment and the “Spy Stuff”

The Conservative Legal Resistance

Impeachment Primer

Get Ready for the Most Significant Supreme Court Term in a Decade

How Donald Trump Weaponizes the Law

The Clerk’s Eye View of Justice John Paul Stevens

Redefining The Executive Power

Lawyers, Who Needs 'Em?

Let's Start with Race

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?

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