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SCOTUS Rewrites the Rules for One Special Boy
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It’s past time to say it. This Supreme Court is helping President Donald J. Trump evade accountability. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the Berkeley School of Law, joins Dahli
Sep 5 1 h 09 min
Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 3. A Lunch Room for Life
With Amicus on a brief summer break, we’re bringing you the final installment of Slow Burn’s latest season, Becoming Justice Gorsuch. Host Susan Matthews enlists Slate’s
Aug 29 56 min
Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 2. The Stolen Seat
With Amicus on a brief summer break, we’re bringing you the second installment of Slow Burn’s latest season, Becoming Justice Gorsuch.
When Justice Antonin Scalia died i
Aug 22 47 min
Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 1. Man With a Plan
Our friends over at the Slate podcast Slow Burn are good at taking events that we think are settled history, then unlocking a new understanding of those stories through i
Aug 15 39 min
By the People | Now It’s Your Turn
In the final episode—for now—of our series on reclaiming constitutional power for every American, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern urge you to consider the many ways
Aug 8 54 min
By The People | Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Long before the Supreme Court handed down the landmark Obergefell ruling on equal marriage in 2015, activists were canvassing door-to-door, courting any lawmaker who woul
Aug 1 45 min
By the People | For the Children
In 1867, an 8-year-old girl named Elizabeth Turner became the epicenter of a legal battle that would help define what freedom really meant after the Civil War. Days after
Jul 25 40 min
By the People | Who Owns the Constitution?
For the better part of two centuries of U.S. history, the American people understood that they—and not the Supreme Court—were the final arbiters of the Constitution. But
Jul 18 41 min
The Term the Court Stopped Pretending
The Supreme Court just wrapped one of its most consequential terms in decades—and Amicus brought together three heavyweight legal experts to break down the damage. Their
Jul 11 1 h 00 min
Bad History Will Kill America
The Supreme Court just wrapped the term with a blitz of extremely consequential decisions, and the smoke hasn’t cleared yet. (In fact, it’s looming like a dark storm clou
Jul 4 57 min
A Constitutional Travesty Narrowly Avoided
It was a weird and wild ride as the Supreme Court handed down the last decisions of the term that started all the way back in October of 2025. We were so much younger the
Jun 30 14 min
Preview: Trump Can Fire (Almost) Anyone Now
The end is nigh! Or, the end of this Supreme Court term is nigh, at least.
On the second to last day of this term, the court’s right wingers delivered a sweeping rulin
Jun 29 8 min
The Roberts Court Shows Its True Colors
Donald Trump ran for office threatening to use mass deportations, closed borders, and emergency wartime powers to “clean up” American immigration. On Thursday, the Suprem
Jun 27 1 h 08 min
Preview: All Gas, No Brakes for this 6-3 Court
In this exclusive Opinionpalooza extra, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern take stock of today’s truly horrendous decisions handed down by a right-wing Supreme Court s
Jun 25 11 min
Guns, Weed, and the Forgotten Framers
The Supreme Court handed down a unanimous ruling this week in United States v. Hemani, holding that a marijuana user cannot be stripped of his Second Amendment right to o
Jun 20 1 h 02 min
A Huge Shift is Underway at SCOTUS
The Second Reconstruction is being dismantled piece by piece, and this past month has seen that project attain terminal velocity. On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Li
Jun 13 48 min
Concrete Plans to Restore Law, after Trump
One of the challenges of modern legal journalism is recalling that case law, doctrine, and Supreme Court decisions aren’t a complete picture, without including the lived
Jun 6 1 h 03 min
Preview: A Shattering Blow to Fair Elections
The Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed justices seem to be in a big rush to dismantle voting rights for non-white people. On Tuesday night, the right-wing supermajority
Jun 3 13 min
The Myth of John Roberts vs. Donald Trump
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, Slate’s dynamic legal duo, preview the final weeks of the Supreme Court term. It’s a “three-ring circus”: the merits docket, the sh
May 30 1 h 04 min
Trump’s Slush Fund Is Even Worse Than You Thought
Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" settlement fund has stunned legal experts—not just because it's corrupt, but because of how skillfully and transparently
May 23 1 h 11 min
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This podcast is the place to be to learn about what the SCOTUS is up to in the shadow docket, what their decisions mean, & how those decisions may affect our daily lives. The hosts & guests make all that legal mumbo jumbo easy to understand. Dahlia & Mark are just the best.
phy3joy · Sep 2024
I enjoyed this week's Amicus pod with Mark Joseph Stern talking to Eric Tirschwell of Everytown Law. Super informative and interesting ... a maddening topic for folks who are fed up with the gun lobby's bad-faith approach to public safety.
Every time Mr. Tischwell noted that cases would be decided by the courts, I couldn't help but be reminded of how the Supreme Court's recent decision overturning the Chevron doctrine will inevitably play out. All those hard facts and statistics studies, gathered and marshaled toward good-faith efforts to protect Americans and their families won't do much good when SCOTUS and lower courts can simply decide for themselves what the facts are. Super depressing.
teeberg · Sep 2024
Dahlia and her guests provide engaging conversation on ideas, insights, and information that are truly important for ALL people in American to learn about and consider. You don’t need to be a lawyer or a policy wonk to understand and learn from these people’s brilliance.
Many of the topics addressed recently are all the more relevant to historically disempowered people, who also, as a result, tend to have less disposable income and for whom close to $100 yearly to just listen is not doable (especially with increasing prices of bare basics such as food and housing). Since this excellent podcast doesn’t include hired actors, complex sound production, or the licensing of loads of copyrights, and thus likely has lower production costs than some other podcasts, perhaps Slate (and Dahlia) might do the country a good one by significantly lowering the cost of subscription to SlatePlus for listeners who write in to confidentially request it? There is precedent for such allowances, by other popular podcasts and hosts.
Please seriously consider! This regular listener would tolerate listening to another (tasteful, ethical) ad or two during the show if it would make a Slate Plus sliding scale subscription possible.
Another US Patriot · Sep 2024
I loved this episode! So awesome to listen to Judge Tatle speak with so much humility about decisions made, opinions written, need for judicial restraint. Comparison of scientific method & judicial method is so applicable. Finally, when he spoke about his guide dog … the tears flowed. Thank u so much for this interview.
k!k!m@su · Jul 2024
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