Amicus

A legal podcast with Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick.

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About the Show

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

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From the Snapchat Cheerleader to Katie Porter’s Whiteboard

Decision time at the Supreme Court, and Rep. Porter on why corruption is a national security issue.

The Conservative Legal Project Comes Home to Roost

Roe-endangering SCOTUS grants, Texas laws, and how we got here.

Rudy and the Death of Truth

Preet Bharara on prosecutions, accountability, and what we can’t move on from in the post-Trump era.

The Verdict, the Video, and the Unreasonable Burden of Proof

George Floyd’s murder and the history of bearing witness while Black in America.

Why Are Republicans Upset About Corporate Free Speech All of a Sudden?

Corporate money in politics, and the right to boycott.

Woulda, Coulda SCOTUS

The modern history of the Supreme Court’s trampling of equality and the decisions that might have changed all that.

Live From South by Southwest, With Sen. Jeff Merkley

Democracy reform, voting rights, and the legislation he hopes will ensure both.

“An Injury to Their Electoral Prospects”

Inside the arguments in a case that could gut voting rights even further.

First Amendment Fallacies

When data-scraping is speech, but whistleblowing isn’t, we might need a new frame.

Impeachment’s Message and Meaning

What we’re learning from the second Senate trial of Donald J. Trump.

Inside Impeachment

A key voice from Impeachment 1.0 on what’s happening with Impeachment 2.0.

The Domestic Terror Arm of MAGA

Counterterrorism should inform the response to Trumpism.

The Predictability Is Part of the Tragedy

Joshua Geltzer on what so many saw coming—and failed to prevent.

Truth, Reconciliation, and Korematsu v. United States

A lesson from history in finding the truth when the Justice Department has been complicit in the cover-up.

Justice Stephen Breyer, in His Own Words

An interview with the Supreme Court’s eldest sitting justice on life and life’s lessons.

How Amy Coney Barrett Is Already Making a Mark on the Court

Plus Michigan’s secretary of state and the real bellwethers for defending democracy.

Trump’s Pardonpalooza

Amnesty and clemency under an unprecedented president.

“How Does This End Well?”

Stumbling in courtrooms and sweating in press conferences, Trump’s election fraud fever dream spreads.

Empty Suits

Do Trump’s lawyers have the goods?

The Canaries in the Coal Mine of Justice

Sherrilyn Ifill on the early warnings the legal establishment ignored.