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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts — 469 episodes
Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 2. The Stolen Seat
Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 1. Man With a Plan
By the People | Now It’s Your Turn
By The People | Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
By the People | Who Owns the Constitution?
The Term the Court Stopped Pretending
Concrete Plans to Restore Law, after Trump
Preview: A Shattering Blow to Fair Elections
The Myth of John Roberts vs. Donald Trump
Trump’s Slush Fund Is Even Worse Than You Thought
Return of the Abortion Pill Wars
Trump Thwarted, Orban Toppled: The New Roadmap for Democrats
Time to Impeach Trump Again?
Was it Worth it, Pam?
Preview: A Blowout for Birthright Citizenship at SCOTUS
Trump Has a Plan for the Midterms, SCOTUS May Help
The Roberts Court’s Internal Reckoning
Immigration Myths and Birthright Citizenship
Church and State are Being Reunited, Thanks to SCOTUS
Preview: This War is Obscenely Illegal
Yes, Supreme Court Decisions Really Matter
Trump’s Tariffs Overturned
The Concentration Camp Next Door
Trump Has a New “Big Lie” for the Midterms
Legal Blinkers, Moral Hazards
Who Gave ICE Permission to Trample the Constitution?
Preview: Fed Up
Invoking the Insurrection Act
Renee Good and Trump’s Age of Immunity
The Fast Track To Autocracy
What We Got Wrong About SCOTUS in 2025
The Forgotten Lawsuits Targeting Trump’s Worst Abuses
One Amendment Explains It All
SCOTUS Greenlights Trump, Gaslights America
The Three Faces Of Trumpism
The DOJ's Prosecutorial Malpractice Keeps Spilling Out in Court
He Quit the Bench to Raise the Alarm
When Tariffs Crashed Into SCOTUS
The Federal Judiciary Is Trapped
Demolition Man
Voting Rights, But Mainly for White People
Trump’s Insurrection Claims Could Lead American Democracy Off a Cliff
This Will Be Trump’s Best Term at the Supreme Court Yet
“Color-Blind” Admissions Continue to Hurt Us
Free Speech Is The Enemy of Free Speech, Apparently
Dear Justice Kavanaugh, “I’m American, Bro”
How To Fix Our Broken Constitution
Is The National Guard Coming To Your City?
Punished For Their Pregnancies
When Trump Hits New Jersey, This Lawyer Hits Back
Who Gets Left Out of Originalism?
Don’t Give Up on the Law Just Yet
When Unaccountable People Come for Your Vote
How To Build A Police State (With The Supreme Court’s Blessing)
The Call Is Coming From Inside The Court
Opinionpalooza 2025
Sneak Preview: SCOTUS Made it Worse
Our All-Star SCOTUS End-of-Term Breakfast Table
“No Right Is Safe”
Sneak Preview: The Supreme Court's Worst Move Since Trump Returned to Office
The Many Compromises of Elena Kagan
Sneak Preview: SCOTUS Apparently Doesn’t Believe Trans People Exist
Tanks On DC’s Streets And A US Senator In Handcuffs
There Is No Musk-Trump Feud Without The Roberts Court
Sneak Preview: Unanimous Opinions Out Front, Desperate Dealmaking Out Back
This End Of Term At SCOTUS Is Unlike Any Other in History
The Two Tracks of Justice
SCOTUS Is About to Suffer Buyers Remorse, Again
SCOTUS, Meet The Broligarchs
The Un-American Project
The Anti-Trump Cases That Have Changed The Game
Playing Chicken With the Constitution
A Lawyer’s Guide to Not Caving to the President
Sneak Preview: The Supreme Court Just Gave The Trump Administration Everything It Wanted—Almost
He Was Deported by Administrative Error. We Talked to His Lawyer.
Trump’s Plan To Put A Chokehold On Voting
The Rule of Law Took A Very Dark Turn This Week
Sneak Preview: An Escalating Constitutional Crisis
Big Law Stands Up
The Constitutional Truth At The Heart Of The DOGE Cases
Sneak Preview: What Trump’s First Big Loss At SCOTUS Means
When the Lawyers are Lawless
Long Live The King?
The Gangster Presidency
Trying To Undo A Coup, In The Courts
Trump’s American Takeover
Extra: The Federal Funding Freeze
Trump’s Unconstitutional Rampage Against Immigration
Preview: Deciphering The Lawlessness of Trump’s Executive Orders
The New Constitutional (dis)Order
TikTok Is Cooked, Trump Is Sentenced
Preview: Trump’s Racking Up Supreme Court Loyalty Points
John Roberts’ New Year Blame Game
Dead Amendment Walking
Defamation Stations!
Chris Wray Just Made Way For Something Even Worse Than Kash Patel
Meet Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s New Roy Cohn
The Right’s About-Turn on Parental Rights
Can The Senate Save Us?
Matt Gaetz And The Clown Car Crash Into The Justice Department
Trump’s Back, This Time Without Guardrails.
Deep Breath, Here We Go
The Great Big Pre-Election Freedom and Democracy Show
The 1798 Law Inspiring Trump’s Mass Deportation Dreams
How To Steal A Presidential Election
27 Years On Death Row
What We’re Watching This New Supreme Court Term
Sneak Preview: The RFK Jr Ballot Mess in North Carolina Was Just the Beginning
The Next Supreme Court Gun Fight
The Chief Justice Tips His Hand
Why Ron DeSantis Hates Direct Democracy
Subvert the Election, But Make It Legal
The Legal Fallout of Trump’s Immunity
The Forgotten Jan 6th Case Against Trump
Don’t Pardon Trump’s Pardons
Michael Cohen and the Trump Lawyers Who Get Burned
Why Donald Trump Sues Everyone
Judge David Tatel and a New Perspective on the Court
SCOTUS Doesn’t Have To Be This Way
Judge Aileen Cannon Closes Trump Mar-a-Lago Classified Documents Case [Preview]
Opinionpalooza: This SCOTUS Decision Is Actually Even More Devastating Than We First Thought
Opinionpalooza: The Supreme Court End-of-Term Breakfast Table
Opinionpalooza: The Supreme Court Puts Presidents Above the Law (Preview)
Opinionpalooza: The Day SCOTUS Became President
Opinionpalooza: SCOTUS and MAGA’s Shared Vision For Government Comes Into View
Opinionpalooza: The Vanishing Emergency Abortion Decision (Preview)
Rahimi and The Roberts Court’s All New, Also Old, Second Amendment Doctrine
Opinionpalooza: SCOTUS Says Yes to Bump Stocks, No to Gun Safety Regulation
Opinionpalooza: Don’t Call the Mifepristone Case a Win (Preview)
The Supreme Court’s Appeal to Heaven
Will the Supreme Court Step Into Trump’s Hush Money Conviction?
Opinionpalooza: The Court of King Alito
SPECIAL: Trump Guilty on All 34 Counts
Opinionpalooza: A Bad June Rising At SCOTUS
Opinionpalooza: Justice Alito Flies the Flag for Racial Gerrymanders (Preview)
How Originalism Ate The Law: What We Can Do About It
Alito’s Stars and Gripes
How Originalism Ate The Law: The Trap
How Originalism Ate the Law: The Trick
Democracy Dies at SCOTUS
PREVIEW: Abortion Gaslighting is Back at SCOTUS
Twelve Jurors and One Angry Ex-President
The Jurisprudence of Bleeding Out
When Gag Orders Become Campaign-Performance Indicators
When RAGA Rhymes with MAGA
How The Mifepristone Case Reached SCOTUS
Who Gets to Lie Online?
The Lies Destroying America
Yes, You Can Vote for an Insurrectionist
The IVF Decision We Should Have Seen Coming
A Series of Lawsuits That We Call an Election
Fani Willis and a Tale of Two Ethics Violations
Is SCOTUS Afraid of Holding Trump to Account?
The Trump Trials Doomsday Clock Just Ticked a Second Closer to Midnight
The Neglected Constitutional History That Disqualifies Trump
Donald Trump and the Apex of MAGA Misogyny
Greg Abbott and the Battle for the Texas Border
The Supreme Court Gave Itself Huge Extra Powers and It’s Becoming a Big Problem
Deja Coup: Donald Trump and the Slow Civil War
The Very Worst of SCOTUS 2023
The Many Trials of Donald J. Trump
Texas Abortion Laws’ Cruel Outcomes
Billionaires Had a Bad Week at the Supreme Court
Remembering Sandra Day O’Connor
From "The Political Scene": Trump's Vindictive Second Term Agenda
Is The Federalist Society Over?
Dunking On Trump's Lawyers Might Not Be The Win You Think It Is
The Right to Bear Arms and Terrorize Your Partner
Watching Trump Shrink in Court
Donald Trump's John Gotti Moment
Justice Samuel Alito Got Out Of Bed on The Perry Mason Side
Senator Elizabeth Warren is Deeply Worried About SCOTUS
A Monumental SCOTUS Term Begins: Our Reluctant Curtain-Raiser
SCOTUS Is Not Done With Guns and Abortion
The Supreme Court We Deserve?
Alabama Double-Dares SCOTUS Over Voting Maps
Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas
The Family Roe
The Fear of Too Much Justice
Zero-Sum Justice
Supreme Arrogance
MAGA SCOTUS Is Back
The End of Affirmative Action
Moore v Harper Was a Win for Democracy, A Big Loss For Donald Trump
Supreme Court Politics One Year On From Dobbs
Samuel Alito and The Billionaire
SCOTUS Wants To Drain The Swamp, Too
Is A New Supreme Court Emerging?
Can Trump Outrun The Law?
The Trump Indictment
Did John Roberts Really Just Save Voting Rights?
How SCOTUS Enabled The Explosion of Anti-Trans Laws
Fixing The Court, One Story at a Time
Bonus: SCOTUS Nukes Wetlands Protections
E. Jean Carroll and the Lawyer Who Beat Trump
The Supreme Court's Dangerous Return to Its Roots
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaires
John Roberts’ Unfunny Stalking Jokes at SCOTUS
Anti-Abortion Lawyers Love this Zombie Law
Tennessee-Style Power Grabs are Coming to a State House Near You
What To Expect When You're Expecting An Indictment
Lessons from The Trump Years for SCOTUS
SCOTUS on the Internet: “It’s Complicated”
The "Stop the Steal" Fight That Never Ended
Absolutely No One Is Happy With the Dobbs Leak Investigation
The Labor Case Before SCOTUS Has Big Implications for Democracy
Why are We Still Obsessed with Roe v Wade?
“Is This How We Do Law Now?”
The Blockbuster Case You Probably Haven’t Heard About
Religious Liberty and the Right to Vacation in Jackson Hole
When You Take Away the Kids, You Take Away the Future
Affirmative Action on the Chopping Block
The Supreme Court Case that Could Upend Democracy
Bonus: Time to Celebrate Some Wins
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Gives SCOTUS a History Lesson
A Hair-Raising SCOTUS Curtain-Raiser
Listen to Lady Justice
The Sound of Worms Turning
Lady Justice and Charlottesville Nazis
The Law v Lawless Edition
The Clash Between Privacy and Freedom of the Press
Judge Victoria Pratt’s “The Power of Dignity”
What the Dobbs Decision Means to Me
Eric Holder's Supreme Court Protest
A Supreme Court Term Like No Other
SCOTUS Wraps, Precedent Collapses, and KBJ Takes her Oath
Slate Plus Bonus: Praying at the 50 Yard Line and Dunking on the Libs
Just Doing The Job They Were Put On The Court To Do
Slate Plus Bonus: Carson v Makin
Somewhere, John Roberts is Screaming into an Expensive Pillow
The January 6th Committee Revelations You Might Have Missed
Our Guns Problem is a Democracy Problem
When a Shooter Comes to Your School
Why the Coming January 6th Hearings are So Important
Learning from Pre-Roe to Navigate Post-Roe
The (draft) Opinion of the Court on Abortion
Rewriting Statutes Via Courts
Fundamental Rights Doublespeak
Ketanji Brown Jackson: Asked and Answered
A Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation-Hearing Preview
Anita Hill on the Supreme Court’s Future
Why “Cheap Speech” Threatens Democracy
And the Nominee Is … Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Politics Masquerading as Law
Justice Breyer to Retire
COVID in the Courtroom
2021 Was a Direct Response to 2020
Jan. 6: The Coup That Wasn’t, but Still Could Be
The Purported Right to Abortion
Inside the Arguments in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health
Everybody Wants to Be Scalia
Guns on the Subway and Vigilantes in Texas
The Supreme Court’s Role in Police Violence
The Trump Court and the Roberts Court
The Supreme Court’s Charm Offensive
The Legal Repercussions of the War on Terror
Abortion, Surveillance, and Vigilantism : An American Story
Pauli Murray: Lawyer, Poet, Priest, Trailblazer
The Lawlessness of Property and Ownership
“Braided In”: The Second Amendment and Anti-Blackness.
A To-Do List for Senate Democrats
An Elegy for the Voting Rights Act
Fulton: Bigger Than We Thought?
From the Snapchat Cheerleader to Katie Porter’s Whiteboard
The Return of The Waves!
The Conservative Legal Project Comes Home to Roost
Rudy and the Death of Truth
The Verdict, the Video, and the Unreasonable Burden of Proof.
Why Are Republicans Upset About Corporate Free Speech All of a Sudden?
Woulda, Coulda SCOTUS
Live From SXSW, With Sen. Jeff Merkley
“An Injury To Their Electoral Prospects”
First Amendment Fallacies
Impeachment’s Message and Meaning
Inside Impeachment
The Domestic Terror Arm of MAGA
The Predictability is Part of the Tragedy
Truth, Reconciliation, and Korematsu v. United States
Justice Breyer, In His Own Words
How Amy Coney Barrett is Already Making a Mark on the Court
Trump’s Pardonpalooza
“How Does This End Well?”
Empty Suits
The Canaries in the Coal Mine of Justice
The American Contest
The Litmus Test
What Progressives Got Wrong About the Judiciary
Testing the Election
The Senate Judiciary Committee and Boxing Kangaroos
Quiet Words That Remain
A Conversation about Conversations with RBG
An Interview With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Bill Barr’s American Carnage
Dozens of Baby Bush v Gores
Behind the Scenes of "The Class of RBG"
An Interview With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG Part Two
Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG Part One
Coming Soon
Roberts vs. Trump
What’s Left of Roe v. Wade?
Blockbusters: DACA and Title VII
Race, Police, and The Law
Immunity, Impunity, and Justice by the Numbers
Big Days for Justice
States’ Rights
Why, Wisconsin?
Protecting Democracy in a Pandemic
The Law of Public Health
Have Progressives Lost the Courts for Good?
Election Meltdown, Professor Brendan Nyhan
Election Meltdown, Part 5
Election Meltdown, Part 4
Election Meltdown, Part 3
Election Meltdown, Part 2
Impeachment's Aftermath
Election Meltdown, Part 1
A Trial That's Not A Trial
What Is Impeachment For?
Buckle Up, John Roberts
Divided Realities
Slate Presents: Lockdown
Impeaching Other Presidents
Bonus: A Conversation About Conversations With RBG
Your Move, Mitch
Live Bonus: Press Freedom
A Look at the Original Quid Pro Quo: Emoluments.
Bonus: Impeachment and the “Spy Stuff”
The Conservative Legal Resistance
Impeachment Primer
Get Ready for the Most Significant Supreme Court Term in a Decade
How Donald Trump Weaponizes the Law
The Clerk’s Eye View of Justice John Paul Stevens
Redefining The Executive Power
Lawyers, Who Needs 'Em?
Let's Start with Race
The End of an Era, and the Cult of the Constitution.
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Ready, Set, Gerrymander!
Trumpcast: An Interview With E. Jean Carroll
Flowers, Crosses, Clauses and Oaths
Clarence Thomas Said What?
“Slouching Toward Gilead”
A Judge, on Judging
The Fight for LGBTQ Protections Under the Civil Rights Act
Extra: Redactionist History
Death Penalty Dust-Ups at the High Court
Kavanaugh and Kagan Had a Moment
Lawyers are Tackling our Democracy Problem Via the Take Care Clause
The Case Regarding the So-Called Emergency
Parsing the Shadow Docket
Amicus Presents: The Pre-Crime Unit
What Did We Learn From The Trans Ban Injunction Decision?
We’re Back to Where Mueller Began: Counterintelligence
The Threat of National Emergency
Chief Justice John Roberts, a Rock, and a Hard Place
The Incrementalist RBG
Mapping the Mueller Investigation
A Hard Line on Acosta’s Hard Pass
“Taking a Wrecking Ball to Our Constitution”
SPECIAL: The Deadly Shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue
Docket Deep Dive and Is It Time to Freak Out About Voting?
Amicus Presents: Legal Wars
Due Processing
Live from Austin
The Press, The President, and Enemy Construction
Introducing Slate Day
SPECIAL: Surviving a School Shooting, From a Teacher's Point of View
Roe v Kavanaugh
Back to School Protest Special
Barbie, Bratz, and Who Owns Your Dreams?
A Taftian Antidote to Trumpian Excesses
The Scalia Factor
The Argument That Could Reclaim the Supreme Court for Democrats
With Kennedy Gone, What’s on the Chopping Block?
Voting: Purging, Packing, Cracking, Standing
Bonus: Live From the ACLU
Religious Belief, Sincerely Held
The Impeachment Question
The State of the State Attorneys General
Travel Ban 3.0 and Rinsing off Religious Animus for SCOTUS
The Rule of Law and the Ethics of Poking the Bear
Don’t Call It an Abortion Case
All The President's Lawyers
When Did Corporations Become People?
A Preview of a Union-Busting Case, and RBG’s Greatest Hits Tour
Immigration: Whose Call Is It Anyway?
“The Gross Spectacle of a Divided Defense”
The Right Not to Vote
#MeToo in the Courts
Probing the Mueller Probe, and Inside the Chamber for Masterpiece Cakeshop
Slow Burn: A Podcast About Watergate | Martha
Why the Cakeshop Case is So Delicious
Guns in America and the Travel Ban that Went Unnoticed
The 25th Amendment, What's That?
The Single Most Unremarked Win of the Trump Era
The Supreme Court Term RBG Is Calling "Momentous"
Gerrymandering Goes Back to Court
Breakfast Table Redux
Nice Little FBI You’ve Got Here. Pity if Something Happened to it.
Clarence Thomas is Color Blind
Animus Amicus
The Myth of the Neutral Expert
Playground of Liberty
When Prosecutors Keep Mum
Gorsuch Grins, Says Nothing
Why It’s Worth Opposing Gorsuch
Never Mind
General Strike
"SEE YOU IN COURT"
Will You Accept This Robe?
Immunity in High Places
And Then There Were Eight
Corruption in the White House
Where We Draw the Line
The Specter of Korematsu
Trump’s Constitution
Intimidation Nation
And Now a Word from the White House
2016 Term Preview
Notorious RBG
That's a Wrap
Goodbye, General!
What Would Brandeis Do?
A Bird with a Broken Wing
Memory Lane
This is Not Corruption
Contra Obama
The Case Against the Case Against Confirmation
The Contraceptive Mandate
Is the Burden Undue?
The Contradictions of Antonin Scalia
Amicus Extra: Antonin Scalia's Death
The Candidates and the Court
The Case of the Missing Constitutional Violation
Labor Pains
Judging Tribal Courts
One Person, One Vote
Color Blind Constitution
Class Dismissed?
Strike Zone
No Second Chances
The Machinery of Death
2015 Term Preview
Sandra and Ruth
Sock the Vote
The Term in Review
Amicus: The Storm Arrives
The Storm Before the Storm
A Certain Justice
The Calm Before the Storm
Ready for Her Close-Up
Making the Case
The Politics of Law
Marriage Arrives
Mercury Rising
Throwing Away the Key
The Letter of the Law
Botched Protocols
Cameras in the Courtroom
"Thank You," Not "Please"
The Super Lawyers
Rapper's Intent
Mental Illness and the Death Penalty
Jerusalem Born
Amicus: Ballot-Box Special
Amicus: Revenge of the Octogenarians
Amicus: Let's Salsa with Sotomayor
Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick