Podcast Episodes

The Two Tracks of Justice

This week’s episode attempts to understand the ways in which the law of Trump unfolds along two tracks at the same time. First, Mark Joseph Stern joins us to talk about the Supreme Court’s decision t…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

SCOTUS Is About to Suffer Buyers Remorse, Again

Our eyes this week were trained on the arguments over birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court on Thursday. While Solicitor General John Sauer advanced wild arguments on behalf of the Trump admini…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

SCOTUS, Meet The Broligarchs

After Silicon Valley’s yeet to the right after Donald Trump was elected in 2016, and the DOGE-ification of the federal government (read: chaos and abuse as the driving ethos of HR), it felt like high…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

The Un-American Project

Whether it’s attempting to overturn birthright citizenship, effectively stripping citizenship from American children, or claiming Alien Enemy Act war powers under an imaginary invasion, Trump’s anti-…

Published on 4 months ago

The Anti-Trump Cases That Have Changed The Game

As we approach President Trump’s 100th day in office (this time around) this Wednesday, Dahlia Lithwick checks in with one of the key architects of the litigation strategy that is successfully confou…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Playing Chicken With the Constitution

Ever since March 15, when three flights carrying hundreds of men who had been afforded zero due process left United States airspace and landed in El Salvador, American democracy has been hurtling tow…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

A Lawyer’s Guide to Not Caving to the President

On this week’s Amicus, autocratic creep in high and low gear. In high gear: The Supreme Court finally issued its order in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case, requiring that the government “facilitates” Abre…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

The Supreme Court Just Gave The Trump Administration Everything It Wanted—Almost

Here’s a question for you. If you are scooped up by ICE (masked, covering badge numbers), then moved from one detention center to another in quick succession, before being hastily forced onto a fligh…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

He Was Deported by Administrative Error. We Talked to His Lawyer.

The US government’s use of a prison in El Salvador as an extra-judicial due-process free black site has been rendered starkly visible by the story of one man they tried to disappear. On this week’s A…

Published on 5 months ago

Trump’s Plan To Put A Chokehold On Voting

The Trumpian inversion of reality was threaded into so many areas of the law and active litigation this week.

Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the apparent evapo…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago