Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVoting Rights, But Mainly for White People
Janai Nelson, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund argued in defense of the Voting Rights Act in the pivotal Supreme Court case, Louisiana v Callais this week. Nelson joins Dahlia Lithwick on t…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Trump’s Insurrection Claims Could Lead American Democracy Off a Cliff
Troops on America's streets, threats of “plenary powers”, and extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean have prompted members of the military past and present to say that we are in the biggest civil/mi…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
This Will Be Trump’s Best Term at the Supreme Court Yet
Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern are joined by Vox’s Ian Millhiser to discuss the upcoming Supreme Court term, which officially starts on Monday. The term begins with a slew of wildly s…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
“Color-Blind” Admissions Continue to Hurt Us
The week ended with a Grand Jury Indictment of former FBI Director James Comey for what looks to be a pair of unprovable crimes. Indeed the US Attorney overseeing the case declined to bring the indi…
Published on 3 months ago
Free Speech Is The Enemy of Free Speech, Apparently
Dahlia Lithwick talks to First Amendment law professor Mary Anne Franks to explore the inversion of free speech in America this past week, and to trace the ways our assumptions about the First Amendm…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Dear Justice Kavanaugh, “I’m American, Bro”
In this week’s episode of Amicus, we delve into the recent Supreme Court shadow docket order in Noem v. Vasquez-Perdomo, which in essence legalized racial profiling by roving ICE patrols, and in prac…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
How To Fix Our Broken Constitution
There is a “stuckness” to American political life right now, which has become a seemingly inexorable centrifuge of polarization, victimization and power grabbing. The constitution is brandished as sw…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Is The National Guard Coming To Your City?
In this episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick discusses the recent deployment of the National Guard in Washington D.C. and its implications for checks and balances in the U.S. legal system. She is joine…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Punished For Their Pregnancies
Women were prosecuted for experiencing miscarriage or stillbirth even before the Supreme Court swept away the protections of Roe v. Wade. But these prosecutions have ramped up since, in both red and …
Published on 4 months ago
When Trump Hits New Jersey, This Lawyer Hits Back
Law firms, universities, and businesses are bending the knee to the Trump administration at the slightest threat. Amid this shocking cowardice, blue states have been a bastion of defiance against the…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago