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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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Bonus: Time to Celebrate Some Wins
Live in California, Dahlia Lithwick reflects on the progress made in the face of Trumpism.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Gives SCOTUS a Hi...
Inside the voting rights arguments at the High Court
62 min
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A Hair-Raising SCOTUS Curtain-Raiser
As Justice Jackson takes her seat, a court gone wild gets back to work
58 min
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Listen to Lady Justice
: A high water mark for women and the law, and then, a great unraveling.
10 min
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The Sound of Worms Turning
Good for the rule of law, bad for the former guy
57 min
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Lady Justice and Charlottesville Nazis
Roberta Kaplan on women, the law and holding white supremacists accountable.
41 min
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The Law v Lawless Edition
Mary Trump and Norm Ornstein sift through the Mar-a-Lago files
44 min
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The Clash Between Privacy and Freedom of the Press
Amy Gajda takes us through the history of privacy rights to find the sweet spot between dignity, secrecy, journalism and ethics.
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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
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Eric Holder's Supreme Court Protest
President Obama’s Attorney General reveals why he decided to boycott SCOTUS
45 min
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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The January 6th Committee Revelations You Might...
Just Security’s Ryan Goodman on the “sleeper” stories from Thursday night
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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
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Learning from Pre-Roe to Navigate Post-Roe
Amicus live at the Crosscut Festival
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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.
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Rewriting Statutes Via Courts
A federal Florida court has thrown out the Biden administration’s mask mandate for public transportation.
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Fundamental Rights Doublespeak
History proves that “unenumerated” does not equal “invented” rights.
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