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A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America.
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Judge Victoria Pratt’s “The Power of Dignity”
Amicus goes to municipal court to find a fairer way to deliver justice
56 min
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What the Dobbs Decision Means to Me
Heidi Schreck on hope and action when the law fails
54 min
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Eric Holder's Supreme Court Protest
President Obama’s Attorney General reveals why he decided to boycott SCOTUS
45 min
154
A Supreme Court Term Like No Other
At the Amicus breakfast table, chewing over the start of a new reactionary era at the Supreme Court.
64 min
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SCOTUS Wraps, Precedent Collapses, and KBJ Take...
Dorothy Roberts on what’s deadly, deliberate, and deeply rooted in Dobbs; Amy Westervelt on how the court is just getting started with West Virginia v EPA.
75 min
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Slate Plus Bonus: Praying at the 50 Yard Line a...
The Supreme Court’s alternative facts in the Coach Kennedy case
6 min
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Just Doing The Job They Were Put On The Court T...
Crushing, predictable decisions from SCOTUS at the dawn of an alarming new era
56 min
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Slate Plus Bonus: Carson v Makin
So long, establishment clause.
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Somewhere, John Roberts is Screaming into an Ex...
How does SCOTUS even operate in this environment?
50 min
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The January 6th Committee Revelations You Might...
Just Security’s Ryan Goodman on the “sleeper” stories from Thursday night
55 min
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Our Guns Problem is a Democracy Problem
The Supreme Court is set to deliver a devastating blow to gun safety
53 min
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When a Shooter Comes to Your School
A rebroadcast of Dahlia Lithwick speaking with three educators about when gun violence came to their schools—and the return to the classroom after.
29 min
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Why the Coming January 6th Hearings are So Impo...
Ambassador Norm Eisen on the next chapter in the battle to save democracy
44 min
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Learning from Pre-Roe to Navigate Post-Roe
Amicus live at the Crosscut Festival
49 min
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The (draft) Opinion of the Court on Abortion
Reading between the lines of the leak that shook America, and the jurisprudence that’s set to strip millions of their rights.
5 min
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Rewriting Statutes Via Courts
A federal Florida court has thrown out the Biden administration’s mask mandate for public transportation.
36 min
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Fundamental Rights Doublespeak
History proves that “unenumerated” does not equal “invented” rights.
75 min
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Ketanji Brown Jackson: Asked and Answered
What we learned from the confirmation hearings.
62 min
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A Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation-Hearing Pr...
An absence of substantive opposition and a surfeit of partisan posturing.
5 min
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Anita Hill on the Supreme Court’s Future
The upcoming confirmation, and what it means for the court’s future—and for America’s future.
55 min
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Why “Cheap Speech” Threatens Democracy
Rick Hasen on the speech that’s undermining elections, and what to do about it.
28 min
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And the Nominee Is … Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
President Biden’s Supreme Court pick is unprecedented.
52 min
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Politics Masquerading as Law
Rep. Adam Schiff on the Jan. 6 investigation, and the end of Section II of the Voting Rights Act comes not with a bang but a shadow docket order.
65 min
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Justice Breyer to Retire
The apolitical pragmatist makes the pragmatic political choice.
55 min
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COVID in the Courtroom
When public health and the Supreme Court collide.
35 min