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 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.

What’s Left of Roe v. Wade?

 Exploring the division of opinion in June Medical Services LLC v Russo.

Blockbusters: DACA and Title VII

Dissecting two huge decisions in one Supreme Court week.

Race, Police, and the Law

Where is the justice in this Justice Department?

Immunity, Impunity, and Justice by the Numbers

The financial records cases, who’s getting cut off on the all-new SCOTUS call-in show, and why the law is for suckers.

Big Days for Justice

Bill Barr drops things, SCOTUS phones it in, and Little Sisters intervene.

States’ Rights

Colorado State Attorney General Phil Weiser on cooperative federalism, COVID-19, and faithless electors.

Why, Wisconsin?

Election lawyer Marc Elias on what this week’s election mess can teach us ahead of November.

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.