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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Protecting Democracy in a Pandemic

What we need to hold onto, especially during the COVID-19 crisis.

The Law of Public Health

Professor Michele Goodwin on holding onto civil liberties when the world turns upside down.

Have Progressives Lost the Courts for Good?

Big questions for the new president of the American Constitution Society, Russ Feingold.

Election Meltdown: The Debrief

Dahlia Lithwick and Rick Hasen on what they’ve learned and what’s changed.

Election Meltdown, Part 5

Doomsday scenarios and hopeful actions in the final part of our voting-rights series.

Election Meltdown: Dale Ho, ACLU

The most significant voting rights case this century.

Election Meltdown, Part 4

Rhetoric and reality: When is it OK to say an election was “stolen”?

Election Meltdown: Professor Brendan Nyhan

How misinformation undermines elections.

Election Meltdown, Part 3

Delving into the big bag of dirty tricks ahead of the 2020 election.

Election Meltdown: Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson

After failed recounts in 2016, Michigan’s hoping 2020 will be different.

Election Meltdown, Part 2

Paper jams, lost forms, and lost boxes—incompetence and elections.

Impeachment’s Aftermath

Precedents for future presidents, and questions for current citizens.

Election Meltdown—Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap

Inside the defunct voter fraud commission.

Election Meltdown, Part 1

The voter fraud that wasn’t, the voter suppression that is.

A Trial That’s Not a Trial

As the chief justice and senators swear in for Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, a lawyer’s bird’s-eye view of proceedings.

What Is Impeachment For?

Live from the Aspen Institute, a conversation about the case against Donald Trump.

Buckle Up, John Roberts

Looking ahead to a turbulent 2020 for the chief justice.

Divided Realities

Lawyers on the crisis at the border and a cacophony of bad faith at the Capitol.

Impeaching Other Presidents

History lessons and a constitutional law clinic at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on impeachment.

Bonus: A Conversation About Conversations With RBG

Dahlia Lithwick and Jeff Rosen on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s jurisprudence—and her character.