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

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  • Impeach Trump Y/N?

    October 24, 2026 · 48 min

    Let’s say Democrats gain control of the House and Senate in a couple of weeks, with a majority of Americans demanding accountability, and an airtight list of high crimes and misdemeanors as long as your arm. Should Democrats impeach Trump…

  • By the People | The People v. SCOTUS

    October 21, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    Stacey Abrams, Ilyse Hogue, and Daphna Renan join Dahlia Lithwick in conversation for a live By The People finale. This is part five of our series on popular constitutionalism, the idea that the Constitution belongs to the people—and not…

  • Trump’s DOJ Finds Yet Another Basement

    October 17, 2026 · 40 min

    On Monday, the Justice Department raided a sitting congresswoman's D.C. home to build a denaturalization case. Andrew Weissmann joins Dahlia Lithwick to explain the new depths being plumbed by Trump’s DOJ. ICE executed an early morning…

  • Grab Them by the Constitution

    October 10, 2026 · 53 min

    Donald Trump brags about his boundless freedom while the same Supreme Court that handed him that power has curtailed everyone else's. Confidence in the court has cratered to historic lows, and waiting for a justice to retire is not…

  • Cruel and Unusual, Bought and Paid For

    October 3, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    This week, the Supreme Court blessed the torture of a condemned woman, and the court is set to kick off the new term by doing fossil fuel's bidding. So here at Amicus, we’re not really in the mood for a razzle-dazzle “curtain raiser.”…

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  • Everybody Out of the Pool

    September 26, 2026 · 46 min

    President Trump announced on Truth Social that he was banning CNN, Politico, and MSNow from the White House because he didn't like their coverage. Within days, a federal judge ordered the outlets be reinstated—but the White House dragged…

  • One Ballot After Another

    September 19, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    You’ve seen the headlines about the lists, the claims, the THREE times this same executive order about voting by mail has gone to the Supreme Court. But is Trump’s interference with  mail-in voting settled—at least with respect to the…

  • Capitulation Nation

    September 12, 2026 · 55 min

    Capitulation under Trump 2.0 has been devastating to the rule of law. To review a couple of lowlights: One of the nation’s leading lawyers, Brad Karp, cut a deal with Donald Trump in the first days of the bully-in-chief’s second…

  • SCOTUS Rewrites the Rules for One Special Boy

    September 5, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    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 Dahlia Lithwick to break down the conservative majority's procedural…

  • Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 3. A Lunch Room for Life

    August 29, 2026 · 56 min

    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 jurisprudence team—Amicus co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph…

  • Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 2. The Stolen Seat

    August 22, 2026 · 47 min

    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 in February of 2016, the Supreme Court appeared to be headed for a 5-4…

  • Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 1. Man With a Plan

    August 15, 2026 · 40 min

    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 interviews, archives, and fresh analysis. They’ve reexamined Supreme…

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A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America. Get more Amicus with Slate Plus. Join to unlock weekly bonus episodes with exclusive legal analysis—plus ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Amicus show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.