Amicus

A legal podcast with Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick.

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A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America.

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Why the Coming January 6th Hearings Are So Important

Ambassador Norm Eisen on the next chapter in the battle to save democracy

Learning from Pre-Roe to Navigate Post-Roe

Amicus live with the Crosscut Festival.

The (Draft) Opinion of the Court on Abortion

Reading between the lines of the leak that shook America, and the jurisprudence that’s set to strip millions of their rights.

Rewriting Statutes Via Courts

A federal Florida court has thrown out the Biden administration’s mask mandate for public transportation.

Fundamental Rights Doublespeak

History proves that “unenumerated” does not equal “invented” rights.

Ketanji Brown Jackson: Asked and Answered

What we learned from the confirmation hearings.

A Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation-Hearing Preview

Expect an absence of substantive opposition and a surfeit of partisan posturing.

Anita Hill on the Supreme Court’s Future

The upcoming confirmation, and what it means for the court’s future​​—and for America’s future.

Why “Cheap Speech” Threatens Democracy

Rick Hasen on the speech that’s undermining elections, and what to do about it.

And the Nominee Is … Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

President Biden’s Supreme Court pick is unprecedented.

Politics Masquerading as Law

Rep. Adam Schiff on the Jan. 6 investigation, and the end of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act comes not with a bang but with a shadow docket order.

Justice Breyer to Retire

The apolitical pragmatist makes the pragmatic political choice.

COVID in the Courtroom

When public health and the Supreme Court collide.

2021 Was a Direct Response to 2020

The NAACP LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill on what happens when you win the culture but lose the courts.

Jan. 6: The Coup That Wasn’t, but Still Could Be

Accounting for the accountability gap in Washington.

The Purported Right to Abortion

Texas’ bounty scheme worries the chief justice, but his conservative colleagues think it’s just fine.

Inside the Arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority eyes overturning Roe v. Wade.

Everybody Wants to Be Scalia

A significant jurisprudential theme is emerging at the Supreme Court, with big implications for the climate and the environment.

Guns on the Subway and Vigilantes in Texas

The Supreme Court grapples with the Second Amendment and abortion.

The Supreme Court’s Role in Police Violence

Analysing decades of jurisprudence that prop up racist police practices and block reform.