Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, ju...
A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America.
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Travel Ban 3.0 and Rinsing off Religious Animus...
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The Rule of Law and the Ethics of Poking the Bear
A slow motion constitutional crisis may be upon us. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Lawfare blog editor and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Ben Wittes, to assess the threats to the rule of law posed by presidential pique.
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Don’t Call It an Abortion Case
NIFLA v Becerra may be all about reproductive rights, but it’s a speech case, too.
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All The President's Lawyers
This week we follow the money in the Mueller investigation and we talk with a former White House counsel under President Barack Obama about the relationship between presidents and their lawyers, and between this president and his lawyers.
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When Did Corporations Become People?
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A Preview of a Union-Busting Case, and RBG’s Gr...
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Immigration: Whose Call Is It Anyway?
As the courts grapple with radical shifts in immigration policy, a look at the cases underlying the conversation about the rights of refugees, immigrants, Dreamers, and visitors.
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“The Gross Spectacle of a Divided Defense”
The case of the capital defendant who insisted “I’m innocent” while his lawyer told everyone “he did it” reaches the Supreme Court.
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The Right Not to Vote
SCOTUS will weigh whether Ohio had the right to purge more than a million voters who sat out elections.
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#MeToo in the Courts
What’s next, and what’s needed, in the wake of sexual harassment claims concerning the judiciary?
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Probing the Mueller Probe, and Inside the Chamb...
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Slow Burn: A Podcast About Watergate | Martha
A preview of Slate's eight-episode miniseries about Watergate.
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Why the Cakeshop Case is So Delicious
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Guns in America and the Travel Ban that Went Un...
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The 25th Amendment, What's That?
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The Single Most Unremarked Win of the Trump Era
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The Supreme Court Term RBG Is Calling "Momentous"
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Gerrymandering Goes Back to Court
As is so often the case, all eyes are on Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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Breakfast Table Redux
Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern, and Pam Karlan chew over the Supreme Court term just completed.
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Nice Little FBI You’ve Got Here. Pity if Someth...
What counts as “obstruction of justice?” And, should judges pay any attention to Trump’s Twitter feed?
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Clarence Thomas is Color Blind
The most conservative justice casts a decisive vote to invalidate race-based voting lines.
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Animus Amicus
A group of law professors tells a federal court that religious bias lies at the heart of Trump’s travel ban.
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The Myth of the Neutral Expert
In the context of a capital trial, is there any such thing?
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Playground of Liberty
An important church-state case at the Supreme Court centers on tire scraps repurposed for kids’ play areas.
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When Prosecutors Keep Mum
Did eight men spend decades in prison for somebody else’s crime? And – a history of confirmation hearings.
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