Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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