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Voting: Purging, Packing, Cracking, Standing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 gerryma...
ListenBonus: Live From the ACLU from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenReligious Belief, Sincerely Held from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 p...
ListenThe Impeachment Question from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenThe State of the State Attorneys General from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Li...
ListenTravel Ban 3.0 and Rinsing off Religious Animus for SCOTUS from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenThe Rule of Law and the Ethics of Poking the Bear from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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, Be...
ListenDon’t Call It an Abortion Case from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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,...
ListenAll The President's Lawyers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenWhen Did Corporations Become People? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
ListenA Preview of a Union-Busting Case, and RBG’s Greatest Hits Tour from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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-soundi...
ListenImmigration: Whose Call Is It Anyway? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week the high court is on its winter break, but the team here at Amicus wanted to talk about DACA, the travel ban, and issues around immigrants, refugees, and the law. We talk Americanism. Who...
Listen“The Gross Spectacle of a Divided Defense” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We’re inside the chamber for the high-profile case involving a death row inmate from Louisiana who’s asking for a new trial after his lawyer told the jury his client was guilty, despite the client’...
ListenThe Right Not to Vote from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sometimes the technical stuff is how you get to the crucial stuff. Next week, the Supreme Court will hear a case about Ohio’s voter purge, and the case rests on some sticky statutory interpretation...
Listen#MeToo in the Courts from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The cultural whirlwind of #MeToo has reached the judiciary, reluctantly bringing Dahlia Lithwick into the fray along with it. In a piece for Slate, she detailed her firsthand experiences with Judge...
ListenProbing the Mueller Probe, and Inside the Chamber for Masterpiece Cakeshop from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Mueller investigation keeps keeping on as subtweets, speculation, and objections mount. Dahlia Lithwick speaks with Andrew Wright, a former associate counsel to President Barack Obama about the...
ListenSlow Burn: A Podcast About Watergate | Martha from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Amicus presents a preview of Slow Burn, an eight-episode miniseries about Watergate. People called her crazy, and to be fair she must have seemed crazy. But she was onto something. How Martha Mitc...
ListenWhy the Cakeshop Case is So Delicious from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As the high court continues through its unprecedented session, Dahlia speaks with Adam Liptak who covers the Supreme Court for the New York Times and knows the ins and outs of the Masterpiece Cakes...
ListenGuns in America and the Travel Ban that Went Unnoticed from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the wake of another American mass shooting, Dahlia speaks with Adam Skaggs, Chief counsel at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence about the Second Amendment. And as this week marks th...
ListenThe 25th Amendment, What's That? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick speaks with Representative Jamie Raskin about the Republican remedy for Trump's unfitness for office: The 25th Amendment. Plus, she speaks with ProPublica's Ryan Gabrielson about hi...
ListenThe Single Most Unremarked Win of the Trump Era from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia is joined by Kristen Clarke, President & Executive Director of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to talk about the federal judiciary and how Donald Trump is speedily...
ListenThe Supreme Court Term RBG Is Calling "Momentous" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As next week marks the opening of the 2017 term at the high court, Dahlia Lithwick speaks with David Cole, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, about some of the cases in this upco...
ListenThe Domestic Terror Arm of MAGA from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Juliette Kayyem, former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama, currently serving as the faculty chair of the homeland ...
ListenGerrymandering Goes Back to Court from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When the Supreme Court term opens next month, perhaps no issue will be more urgent – and more complicated – than voting rights. One of the first cases the justices will hear is Gill v. Whitford, a ...
ListenThe Predictability is Part of the Tragedy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Joshua Geltzer, a former senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council under President Barack Obama and the founding executive director of the I...
ListenBreakfast Table Redux from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Supreme Court’s 2016 term may not have contained the usual number of blockbuster cases, but it did have its fair share of drama. Between the stonewalling of Merrick Garland, the filibustered co...
ListenTruth, Reconciliation, and Korematsu v. United States from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The incarceration of tens of thousands of Japanese Americans in the 1940s is one of the most shameful acts in American history. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Judge Edward M Chen and Don Tamaki, memb...
ListenNice Little FBI You’ve Got Here. Pity if Something Happened to it. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In his much-anticipated testimony on Capitol Hill this week, former FBI Director James Comey described several uncomfortable interactions with President Trump that preceded his firing. The big ques...
ListenJustice Breyer, In His Own Words from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick talks to Justice Stephen Breyer of the US Supreme Court for a Slate Plus exclusive, as part of Slate’s 80 over 80 coverage. Sign up for Slate Plus now to listen and support our sho...
ListenClarence Thomas is Color Blind from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that caught some Court-watchers off-guard. It ruled that North Carolina lawmakers had violated the Constitution by using race as a proxy for divv...
ListenHow Amy Coney Barrett is Already Making a Mark on the Court from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to talk about lessons learned from this election cycle, and what it’s like to be in the eye of the “unleash the kraken” storm...
ListenAnimus Amicus from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the wake of the unceremonious termination of FBI director James Comey this week, one previously unfamiliar name has dominated the news cycle: Rod J. Rosenstein. The former federal prosecutor bec...
ListenTrump’s Pardonpalooza from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law professor, senior Hoover Institution fellow, co-founder of the Lawfare blog, and co-author (with Bob Bauer) of After Trump: Reconstructing t...
ListenThe Myth of the Neutral Expert from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Supreme Court has slowed Arkansas’ unprecedented rush to execute eight men in 11 days, pending a decision in McWilliams v. Dunn. At issue in the case is whether James McWilliams, an indigent de...
Listen“How Does This End Well?” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Joshua Matz to talk election lawsuits, Trump’s lawyers, Big Law, and whether the Biden administration will put “healing” ahead of justice in the post-Trump era. In our...
ListenPlayground of Liberty from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Newly sworn-in Justice Neil Gorsuch gets his first chance to make his mark on the Court at this week’s oral arguments for Trinity Lutheran v. Comer. The important case asks whether the First Amendm...
ListenWhen Prosecutors Keep Mum from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 1985, eight men were convicted of the grisly murder of a Washington D.C. woman. After spending decades in prison, they learned from an article in the Washington Post that prosecutors had withhel...
ListenGorsuch Grins, Says Nothing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, the Senate held four days of hearings on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. What did we learn about Gorsuch from his 20-odd hours in the hot se...
ListenWhy It’s Worth Opposing Gorsuch from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
After a successful blockade of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, the GOP-led Senate will convene hearings this week on President Trump’s pick for the Court’s year-old vacancy. Considering al...
ListenNever Mind from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On Monday, the Department of Justice announced an abrupt about-face on voting rights, essentially walking away from a lawsuit against a harsh voter-ID law in Texas. We discuss the reversal and its ...
ListenGeneral Strike from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 2010, a Mexican teenager in Juarez was shot to death by a Border Patrol agent on the U.S. side of the border. In Hernandez v. Mesa, set for argument next week, the Supreme Court will determine w...
Listen"SEE YOU IN COURT" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A little more than a week after President Trump announced his ban on travel from a handful of majority-Muslim nations, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this week refused to lift a te...
ListenWill You Accept This Robe? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In an elaborately choreographed prime-time ceremony this week, President Trump tapped Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court seat that has been vacant for almost a year. We sit down with the Cons...
ListenImmunity in High Places from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Can a group of wrongfully-detained noncitizens sue high-ranking Bush Administration officials for violating their rights in the days following 9/11? That’s the central question in Ziglar v Abbasi, ...
ListenAnd Then There Were Eight from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the lead-up to November’s presidential election, Donald Trump released a list of 21 potential Supreme Court nominees in what many saw as an effort to mollify conservatives who tend to worry abou...
ListenCorruption in the White House from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“[N]o person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, p...
ListenWhere We Draw the Line from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in McCrory v. Harris and Bethune-Hill v. Virginia Board of Elections, two challenges to Republican gerrymandering efforts that resulted in the creation ...
ListenThe Specter of Korematsu from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Just a few weeks into the era of President-elect Donald Trump, and already there is a lot of bruising around the edges of the Constitution. The past few weeks have brought talk of Muslim registries...
ListenTrump’s Constitution from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the days leading up to Election Day, conservative legal scholar Orin Kerr explained why he would be crossing the aisle to vote for a Democrat. On this episode, he tells us why the prospect of a ...
ListenIntimidation Nation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v Holder, many states made changes to their voting laws that may disproportionately harm minorities. This week, lawyers in Ohio fil...
ListenAnd Now a Word from the White House from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
After President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in March, there was widespread speculation that opposing his confirmation hearings could have political costs for Republican sen...
Listen2016 Term Preview from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The 2016 Supreme Court term gets underway next week, but don’t get too excited. Eager to avoid any more 4-4 split decisions, the eight remaining justices have cobbled together a caseload that steer...
ListenNotorious RBG from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We kick off a brand new season of our podcast with an episode devoted to the member of the Supreme Court bench who has garnered by far the most headlines since our last episode. That’s right, it’s ...
ListenThat's a Wrap from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On Monday, the Supreme Court invalidated two provisions of Texas’ omnibus abortion law known as HB2. The 5-3 decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt was a big win for abortion rights advoca...
ListenGoodbye, General! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Marriage equality. Voting Rights. Obamacare. These are among the many enormously consequential causes that have fallen to Donald Verrilli to defend at the Supreme Court over the past five years. On...
ListenWhat Would Brandeis Do? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Much of the legal world’s attention was focused this week on Donald Trump’s attacks on Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over the Trump University fraud cases in California. The outrage c...
ListenA Bird with a Broken Wing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Despite many appearances to the contrary, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer this week told an interviewer that the Court has not been diminished by the Senate’s inability to fill its empty seat....
ListenMemory Lane from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia sits down with Tony Mauro of the National Law Journal to listen to highlights from the Supreme Court’s 2015 term. And she speaks with Politico’s Josh Gerstein about recent non-developments i...
ListenThis is Not Corruption from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in McDonnell v. United States, an appeal of the 2014 corruption conviction of Virginia’s former governor. The facts of the case read a bit like a realit...
ListenContra Obama from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia previews United States v. Texas – this week’s big immigration case – with Brianne Gorod of the Constitutional Accountability Center. She also hears from Sen. Al Franken about the latest in t...
ListenThe Case Against the Case Against Confirmation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
More than two weeks have passed since President Obama tapped Merrick Garland to fill Antonin Scalia’s vacant seat on the Supreme Court. But while their rationale has shifted somewhat, Senate Republ...
ListenThe Contraceptive Mandate from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Zubik v Burwell, the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act. This time, a group of religious non-profits are challenging the government’s accomm...
ListenIs the Burden Undue? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It was a big week at SCOTUS, as a newly-balanced Court turned to Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, its first abortion case in nine years. We discuss the case with legal scholar Pamela Karlan and...
ListenThe Contradictions of Antonin Scalia from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A week after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, his former clerk Rachel Barkow shares fond memories of a mentor with whom she didn’t always agree politically. And legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar ex...
ListenAmicus Extra: Antonin Scalia's Death from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The sudden death on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday has unleashed huge shockwaves in both the presidential race and the legal community. Luckily, Slate has podcasts covering both a...
ListenThe Candidates and the Court from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On this episode, Dahlia asks why the Supreme Court has been almost absent as a campaign issue, despite the fact that the next president could have the opportunity to reshape the Court’s bench. She...
ListenThe Case of the Missing Constitutional Violation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In Heffernan v City of Paterson, the Supreme Court must decide whether a government worker can be punished for a political belief his employers attribute to him – rightly or wrongly. This week, Dah...
ListenLabor Pains from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could undercut the ability of public sector unions to raise money. Dahlia is joined by Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro and U. of Michigan’s Sam Bage...
ListenJudging Tribal Courts from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia speaks with attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle about Dollar General Corporation v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, a major Native American rights case argued at the Supreme Court earlier this ...
ListenOne Person, One Vote from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What is the meaning of “one person, one vote? That’s the main question in Evenwel v. Abbott, argued this week at the Supreme Court. On this episode, Dahlia speaks with Andrew Grossman and Nathaniel...
ListenColor Blind Constitution from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A half-century after Brown v. Board of Education, should the Supreme Court still be in the business of integrating public schools and universities? Dahlia sits down with University of Virginia lega...
ListenClass Dismissed? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia speaks with Carter Phillips, the lawyer who represented Tyson Foods at the Supreme Court this week in Tyson's attempt to dismiss a class action suit by its workers. She also considers the lo...
ListenStrike Zone from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia previews Foster v. Chatman, a Supreme Court appeal that contends with the problem of racial bias in the process of jury selection. Her guests include Stephen Bright, president of the Souther...
ListenNo Second Chances from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia speaks with law professor Robert J. Smith about Montgomery v. Louisiana, a Supreme Court case that focuses on a man who has served 53 years in prison for a murder he committed as a juvenile....
ListenThe Machinery of Death from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As serious questions about lethal injection protocols continue to swirl, Dahlia speaks with The Marshall Project’s Andrew Cohen about where the Supreme Court currently stands on the constitutionali...
ListenSandra and Ruth from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia sits down with Linda Hirshman, author of Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World. Hirshman recounts the two women’s ri...
ListenSock the Vote from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Dahlia sits down with The Nation’s Ari Berman to discuss the decades-long campaign to roll back the achievements of the landmark 1965 legislat...
ListenThe Term in Review from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia sits down with three fellow SCOTUS-watchers — Kenji Yoshino, Mark Joseph Stern, and Christian Turner — to reflect on the just-completed term and how it will go down in history. Transcripts o...
ListenAmicus: The Storm Arrives from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
With the ink barely dry on two momentous Supreme Court decisions affecting marriage equality and health care, Dahlia discusses the history, high points, and likely impact of those decisions with Wa...
ListenThe Storm Before the Storm from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia is joined by The Atlantic’s Garrett Epps to parse the latest batch of 5-4 decisions from SCOTUS. They included rulings on immigration, free speech, and the death penalty, and involved some s...
ListenA Certain Justice from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, Dahlia speaks with a former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas about the strong stances that Thomas has been taking recently. And she asks what’s at stake in a big challenge to “One Person...
ListenThe Calm Before the Storm from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On today’s episode, Dahlia takes stock of the big whammy decisions just around the corner at the Supreme Court, and considers a few of the major abortion cases that could be following shortly on th...
ListenReady for Her Close-Up from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week we learned that Natalie Portman will play a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a new film about the Supreme Court Justice. On this episode, Dahlia and her guests consider the recent explosion o...
ListenMaking the Case from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, we take you inside the courtroom for the recent gay marriage case at the Supreme Court. Dahlia listens to highlights of oral arguments with Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, one of the lawyers...
ListenThe Politics of Law from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In anticipation of big decisions on marriage equality and Obamacare, many are talking about the balance of political power on the Supreme Court. Dahlia Lithwick speaks with two court watchers about...
ListenMarriage Arrives from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On April 28, the Supreme Court will finally take up the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans. Dahlia Lithwick previews the cases with Paul Smith, the lawyer involved in the 2003 gay rights c...
ListenMercury Rising from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How should the EPA weigh costs when regulating toxic emissions? Dahlia Lithwick speaks with lawyers on both sides of a Supreme Court case posing that question. And she reviews the highlights of a c...
ListenThrowing Away the Key from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Seven years after ruling that detainees at Guantanamo Bay were entitled to the protections of the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Court seems to have turned its back on the remaining detainees there...
ListenThe Letter of the Law from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act -- King v. Burwell -- Dahlia Lithwick hears from experts on both sides of what could be the most i...
ListenBotched Protocols from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As the Supreme Court prepares to revisit the constitutionality of lethal injection, Dahlia Lithwick speaks with two experts about the controversial drugs being used for execution and whether the ca...
ListenCameras in the Courtroom from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick speaks with Sonja West and RonNell Andersen Jones, two Supreme Court experts who don’t buy the justices’ arguments against allowing cameras in the courtroom. Help us make our podcas...
Listen"Thank You," Not "Please" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick talks to Andrew Pincus, the lawyer who brought a Supreme Court challenge this week to a law banning fundraising by judicial candidates. And she hears from the NAACP’s Sherrilyn Ifil...
ListenThe Super Lawyers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick talks to Joan Biskupic, the author of a new Reuters study about the elite "one-percent" group of lawyers who bring most of the cases at the Supreme Court. She also hears from two of...
ListenRapper's Intent from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick talks to rap music scholar Charis Kubrin about Elonis v. U.S., and about how courts are using rap lyrics in criminal proceedings. She also hears from Sam Bagenstos, who argued this ...
ListenMental Illness and the Death Penalty from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
With an execution looming, Dahlia Lithwick revisits Panetti v. Quarterman, a case involving mental illness and the death penalty. Her guests are Scott Panetti’s lawyer Kathryn Kase and Brandon Garr...
ListenJerusalem Born from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Fresh off oral arguments in the Supreme Court, Alyza Lewin discusses Zivotofsky v. Kerry, which asks if Congress or the President has ultimate authority over passports. Plus, Yates v. U.S. debates ...
ListenAmicus: Ballot-Box Special from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On Ep. 4 of Amicus, a pre-election special. Dahlia sits down with UC Irvine law professor Rick Hasen, founder of Election Law Blog, to survey the landscape of state voter ID laws. They consider the...
ListenAmicus: Revenge of the Octogenarians from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On Ep. 3 of Amicus, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick talks with the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin about his recent interview with President Obama on Obama’s judicial legacy. Then Dahlia welcomes Roberta Kapla...
ListenAmicus: Let's Salsa with Sotomayor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On Ep. 2 of Amicus, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick and former acting solicitor general Walter Dellinger discuss the Surpreme Court’s recent non-decisions about abortion and voter I.D. laws. Then Dahlia ta...
ListenAmicus with Dahlia Lithwick from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On Ep. 1 of Amicus, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick discusses the opening of the Surpreme Court’s new term with Tom Goldstein, publisher of SCOTUSblog. Dahlia also welcomes Douglas Laycock, who argued the ...
ListenThe American Contest from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Regardless of the outcome of the election, the Supreme Court has already entered a new era. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Heather Cox Richardson for a big-picture conversation about what that means:...
ListenThe Litmus Test from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America and the author of The Lie that Binds to discuss the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings for Judge ...
ListenWhat Progressives Got Wrong About the Judiciary from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Robert Raben, a former senior Hill staffer, former assistant attorney general in Bill Clinton’s Department of Justice, and founder of the Raben Group, for some real tal...
ListenTesting the Election from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by election law professor Rick Hasen of UC Irvine, author of Election Meltdown, for an update on the state of the election given the president’s COVID diagnosis. They ar...
ListenThe Senate Judiciary Committee and Boxing Kangaroos from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by the Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal and Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern for some hard truths about the future of the Supreme Court and what, if anything, Democrats...
ListenQuiet Words That Remain from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Marking the passing of a constitutional titan, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Columbia Law professor and former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gillian Metzger. And a special ...
ListenA Conversation about Conversations with RBG from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This is a replay of a special bonus live episode from the National Constitution Center. Dahlia Lithwick in conversation with Jeffrey Rosen about his 2019 book Conversations With RBG: Ruth Bader Gin...
ListenAn Interview With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In January, Dahlia Lithwick spoke to Ruth Bader Ginsburg about the women of Harvard Law School’s class of 1959. Slate Plus members heard the interview in August as part of our feature on the women ...
ListenBill Barr’s American Carnage from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What is Bill Barr doing, and why is he doing it? Donald Ayer, former U.S. attorney and principal deputy solicitor general in the Reagan administration and deputy attorney general under George H.W. ...
ListenDozens of Baby Bush v Gores from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Professor Samuel Bagenstos of the University of Michigan School of Law, to discuss th...
ListenBehind the Scenes of "The Class of RBG" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In July, Slate published "The Class of RBG,” a print piece and two podcast episodes about the nine other women in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Harvard Law School class. June Thomas talked to Dahlia Lithwi...
ListenAmicus Presents: The Class of RBG Part Two from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, the women who went to law school with her knew something of what it had taken to get there. In the second part ...
ListenAmicus Presents: The Class of RBG Part One from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick goes back to where one of the most influential legal careers in US history began—Harvard Law School, September 1956—to find out what we can learn from the other women of the class o...
ListenComing Soon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Who were the nine other women of Harvard Law School's class of 1959? Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg remembers them all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
ListenRoberts vs. Trump from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of Berkeley Law, associate law professor Zephyr Teachout of Fordham University, and Slate’s own Mark Joseph Stern to rake over the end of the Sup...
ListenWhat’s Left of Roe v. Wade? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Melissa Murray of NYU School of Law and Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker for a round table discussion of the big abortion case of the term, why Chief Justice ...
ListenBlockbusters: DACA and Title VII from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Luis Cortes Romero, the attorney and DACA recipient who was part of the team that prevailed in this week’s DACA ruling. He will restore some of your faith in the Americ...
ListenRace, Police, and The Law from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig of Boston University School of Law to share the feelings and thinking behind her letter to her students reflecting on recent protests and ki...
ListenImmunity, Impunity, and Justice by the Numbers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenBig Days for Justice from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Mi...
ListenStates’ Rights from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 segmen...
ListenWhy, Wisconsin? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 reconstru...
ListenProtecting Democracy in a Pandemic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenThe Law of Public Health from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Sc...
ListenHave Progressives Lost the Courts for Good? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Socie...
ListenElection Meltdown, Professor Brendan Nyhan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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. ...
ListenElection Meltdown, Part 5 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Profess...
ListenElection Meltdown, Part 4 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Afric...
ListenElection Meltdown, Part 3 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 electio...
ListenElection Meltdown, Part 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 2...
ListenImpeachment's Aftermath from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 t...
ListenElection Meltdown, Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenA Trial That's Not A Trial from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 aga...
ListenWhat Is Impeachment For? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenBuckle Up, John Roberts from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Ame...
ListenDivided Realities from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
ListenSlate Presents: Lockdown from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenImpeaching Other Presidents from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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, im...
ListenBonus: A Conversation About Conversations With RBG from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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, ...
ListenYour Move, Mitch from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
ListenLive Bonus: Press Freedom from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenA Look at the Original Quid Pro Quo: Emoluments. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenBonus: Impeachment and the “Spy Stuff” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 im...
ListenThe Conservative Legal Resistance from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 impe...
ListenImpeachment Primer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenGet Ready for the Most Significant Supreme Court Term in a Decade from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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, p...
ListenHow Donald Trump Weaponizes the Law from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Trum...
ListenThe Clerk’s Eye View of Justice John Paul Stevens from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
ListenRedefining The Executive Power from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 V...
ListenLawyers, Who Needs 'Em? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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, b...
ListenLet's Start with Race from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 t...
ListenThe End of an Era, and the Cult of the Constitution. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 rad...
ListenHigh Crimes and Misdemeanors from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 historica...
ListenReady, Set, Gerrymander! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 S...
ListenTrumpcast: An Interview With E. Jean Carroll from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
ListenFlowers, Crosses, Clauses and Oaths from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Americ...
ListenClarence Thomas Said What? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
Listen“Slouching Toward Gilead” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 null...
ListenA Judge, on Judging from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 U...
ListenThe Fight for LGBTQ Protections Under the Civil Rights Act from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 add...
ListenExtra: Redactionist History from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ch...
ListenDeath Penalty Dust-Ups at the High Court from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Supre...
ListenKavanaugh and Kagan Had a Moment from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Cou...
ListenLawyers are Tackling our Democracy Problem Via the Take Care Clause from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Pr...
ListenThe Case Regarding the So-Called Emergency from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 t...
ListenParsing the Shadow Docket from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Universi...
ListenAmicus Presents: The Pre-Crime Unit from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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, feder...
ListenWhat Did We Learn From The Trans Ban Injunction Decision? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
ListenWe’re Back to Where Mueller Began: Counterintelligence from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 s...
ListenEmpty Suits from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Amicus’ election law whisperer, UC Irvine election law professor Rick Hasen, to sift through the results, the non-calls, and the many, many lawsuits of this post-electi...
ListenThe Threat of National Emergency from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
ListenChief Justice John Roberts, a Rock, and a Hard Place from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
ListenThe Incrementalist RBG from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
ListenMapping the Mueller Investigation from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
*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 Di...
ListenA Hard Line on Acosta’s Hard Pass from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 admin...
Listen“Taking a Wrecking Ball to Our Constitution” from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
ListenSPECIAL: The Deadly Shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 origina...
ListenDocket Deep Dive and Is It Time to Freak Out About Voting? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 midter...
ListenAmicus Presents: Legal Wars from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 an...
ListenDue Processing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
ListenLive from Austin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 H...
ListenThe Press, The President, and Enemy Construction from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenIntroducing Slate Day from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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; ...
ListenSPECIAL: Surviving a School Shooting, From a Teacher's Point of View from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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/Teache...
ListenRoe v Kavanaugh from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
ListenBack to School Protest Special from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 th...
ListenBarbie, Bratz, and Who Owns Your Dreams? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
ListenA Taftian Antidote to Trumpian Excesses from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 bound...
ListenThe Scalia Factor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 Disrup...
ListenThe Argument That Could Reclaim the Supreme Court for Democrats from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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...
ListenWith Kennedy Gone, What’s on the Chopping Block? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 join...
ListenAmicus with Dahlia Lithwick from 2014-10-11T05:14:11
On Ep. 1 of Amicus, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick discusses the opening of the Surpreme Court’s new term with Tom Goldstein, publisher of SCOTUSblog. Dahlia also welcomes Douglas Laycock, who argued the ...
ListenAmicus with Dahlia Lithwick from 2014-10-11T05:14:11
On Ep. 1 of Amicus, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick discusses the opening of the Surpreme Court’s new term with Tom Goldstein, publisher of SCOTUSblog. Dahlia also welcomes Douglas Laycock, who argued the ...
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