Podcast Episodes

Did John Roberts Really Just Save Voting Rights?

This episode is a part of Opinionpalooza. Slate’s coverage of Supreme Court decisions. Thank you to our Slate Plus members for making this episode available to all listeners. The full version of this…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

How SCOTUS Enabled The Explosion of Anti-Trans Laws

This episode is a part of Opinionpalooza. Slate’s coverage of Supreme Court decisions. We consider this coverage so essential that we’re taking down the paywall for all of it. If you would like to he…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Fixing The Court, One Story at a Time

Take your seats for a live show from Washington DC this week. This live show is part of Slate’s Full Court Press coverage, a provocation for the fourth estate to hold the third branch of government t…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Bonus: SCOTUS Nukes Wetlands Protections

In this bonus episode for Amicus Plus listeners, Dahlia Lithwick and Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern discuss the latest biggest Supreme Court decision: Sackett v EPA. It’s good news for developers and poll…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

E. Jean Carroll and the Lawyer Who Beat Trump

Get your tickets for Amicus Live in Washington DC on May 24th here:

https://slate.com/live/amicus-live-may-24-in-washington-d-c-full-court-press.html

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by a pair of legal histor…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

The Supreme Court's Dangerous Return to Its Roots

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On this week’s Amicus, we head to Seattle for a live taping of the show at the Cross Cut Festival with guest Michael Waldman, President of NYU Law School…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaires

After weeks of controversy, piled upon intrigue, heaped with scandal and topped with crisis at the Supreme Court, it can be hard to get your bearings. What’s illegal, what’s unethical, what’s just a …

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

John Roberts’ Unfunny Stalking Jokes at SCOTUS

As laughter ricocheted around the Supreme Court chamber Wednesday, Professor Mary Anne Franks wondered if she could quite believe her ears. The matter of some hilarity, it seems, were messages sent b…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Anti-Abortion Lawyers Love this Zombie Law

There’s a terrible legal Easter egg in Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk’s ruling on the abortion medication, Mifepristone. And that same Easter egg makes an appearance in the Fifth Circuit’s partial stay. …

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Tennessee-Style Power Grabs are Coming to a State House Near You

On this week’s Amicus Dahlia Lithwick is first joined by Sherrilyn Ifill, former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to talk about Tennessee and the mounti…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago