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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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A Hair-Raising SCOTUS Curtain-Raiser
As Justice Jackson takes her seat, a court gone wild gets back to work
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Listen to Lady Justice
: A high water mark for women and the law, and then, a great unraveling.
10 min
178
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
180
The Law v Lawless Edition
Mary Trump and Norm Ornstein sift through the Mar-a-Lago files
44 min
181
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.
48 min
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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
185
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
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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
191
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.
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