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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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.

The American Contest

Historical context for the conservative project to capture the courts.

The Litmus Test

What hostility to abortion rights really predicts.

What Progressives Got Wrong About the Judiciary

Politics, power, and the Supreme Court.

Testing the Election

Votes are already being cast. Will chaos be the winner?

The Senate Judiciary Committee and Boxing Kangaroos

Dahlia Lithwick, Elie Mystal, and Mark Joseph Stern on girding for a fight and choosing your battles.

Quiet Words That Remain

The cases, opinions, and dissents you may have missed from Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s decades in court.

Bill Barr’s American Carnage

The attorney general is not just a Trump enabler, he has his own agenda.

Dozens of Baby Bush v. Gores

The new fronts for voting rights battles.

An Interview With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dahlia Lithwick talks to Justice Ginsburg about her time at Harvard Law School—and about her female classmates.

Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG, Part 2

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and two of her classmates discuss their lives from Harvard Law School through today.

Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG

Who were the nine other women in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Harvard Law class? The justice remembers them all.

Roberts vs. Trump

As the Supreme Court term comes to a close, the chief justice shows his political acuity.