The problem isn’t the leaks, it’s the stench

The case that seeks to strike down the Indian Child Welfare Act is about colonialism, not civil rights.

Professor Cara McClellan on how the Supreme Court is poised to change access to higher education and David Rothkopf on the Deep State stories you haven’t heard.

Moore v Harper has hit the Supreme Court calendar, and conservative Judge Michael Luttig is sounding the alarm.

Live in California, Dahlia Lithwick reflects on the progress made in the face of Trumpism.

Inside the voting rights arguments at the High Court

As Justice Jackson takes her seat, a court gone wild gets back to work

: A high water mark for women and the law, and then, a great unraveling.

Good for the rule of law, bad for the former guy

Roberta Kaplan on women, the law and holding white supremacists accountable.

Mary Trump and Norm Ornstein sift through the Mar-a-Lago files

Amy Gajda takes us through the history of privacy rights to find the sweet spot between dignity, secrecy, journalism and ethics.

Amicus goes to municipal court to find a fairer way to deliver justice

Heidi Schreck on hope and action when the law fails

President Obama’s Attorney General reveals why he decided to boycott SCOTUS

At the Amicus breakfast table, chewing over the start of a new reactionary era at the Supreme Court.

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.

The Supreme Court’s alternative facts in the Coach Kennedy case

Crushing, predictable decisions from SCOTUS at the dawn of an alarming new era

So long, establishment clause.

How does SCOTUS even operate in this environment?

Just Security’s Ryan Goodman on the “sleeper” stories from Thursday night

The Supreme Court is set to deliver a devastating blow to gun safety

A rebroadcast of Dahlia Lithwick speaking with three educators about when gun violence came to their schools—and the return to the classroom after.

Ambassador Norm Eisen on the next chapter in the battle to save democracy

Amicus live at the Crosscut Festival

Reading between the lines of the leak that shook America, and the jurisprudence that’s set to strip millions of their rights.

A federal Florida court has thrown out the Biden administration’s mask mandate for public transportation.

History proves that “unenumerated” does not equal “invented” rights.

What we learned from the confirmation hearings.

An absence of substantive opposition and a surfeit of partisan posturing.

The upcoming confirmation, and what it means for the court’s future​​—and for America’s future.

Rick Hasen on the speech that’s undermining elections, and what to do about it.

President Biden’s Supreme Court pick is unprecedented.

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.

The apolitical pragmatist makes the pragmatic political choice.

When public health and the Supreme Court collide.

The NAACP LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill on what happens when you win the culture but lose the courts.

Accounting for the accountability gap in Washington.

Texas’ bounty scheme worries the chief justice, but his conservative colleagues think it’s just fine.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority eyes overturning Roe v Wade.

A significant jurisprudential theme is emerging at the Supreme Court, with big implications for the climate and the environment.

The Supreme Court grapples with the Second Amendment and abortion

Analysing decades of jurisprudence that prop up racist police practices and block reform.

What the data about decisions can tell us about the new Supreme Court term

Three out of nine justices really want you to know they are not partisan.

Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, Baher Azmy reflects on how our legal and constitutional axes shifted.

SB 8 is unconstitutional and good to go in Texas (and probably a bunch of other states too).

We’re only just catching up to Pauli Murray.

Property law isn’t what you think it is, and it doesn’t do what you think it does.

Tracking the Second Amendment through a history rooted in slavery to a present of persistent asymmetry.

Is it too late to tackle the filibuster, voting rights, and the judiciary?

Democracy is not what this Supreme Court is all about.

Religion gains “most favored nation status” at the Supreme Court.

Decision time at the Supreme Court, and Rep. Porter on why corruption is a national security issue.

Re-introducing Slate's podcast about feminism and gender

Roe-endangering SCOTUS grants, Texas laws, and how we got here.

Preet Bharara on prosecutions, accountability, and what we can’t move on from in the post-Trump era.

George Floyd’s murder and the history of bearing witness while Black in America.

Corporate money in politics, and the right to boycott.

The modern history of the Supreme Court’s trampling of equality, and the decisions that might have changed all that.

Democracy reform, voting rights, and the legislation he hopes will ensure both.

Inside the arguments in a case that could gut voting rights even further.

When data-scraping is speech, but whistleblowing isn’t, we might need a new frame.

What we’re learning from the second Senate trial of Donald J Trump.

A key voice from Impeachment 1.0 on what’s happening with Impeachment 2.0

Counterterrorism should inform the response to Trumpism.

Joshua Geltzer on what so many saw coming—and failed to prevent.

A lesson from history in finding the truth when the Justice Department has been complicit in the cover-up.

An Interview with the court’s eldest sitting justice on life and life’s lessons.

Plus Michigan’s secretary of state and the real bellwethers for defending democracy.

Amnesty and clemency under an unprecedented president.

Stumbling in courtrooms and sweating in press conferences, Trump’s election fraud fever dream spreads.

Do Trump’s lawyers have the goods?

Sherrilyn Ifill on the early warnings the legal establishment ignored.

Historical context for the conservative project to capture the courts.

What hostility to abortion rights really predicts.

Politics, power, and the Supreme Court.

Votes are already being cast. Will chaos be the winner?

Dahlia Lithwick, Elie Mystal, and Mark Joseph Stern on girding for a fight and choosing your battles.

The cases, opinions, and dissents you may have missed from Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s decades in court.

Dahlia Lithwick and Jeff Rosen on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s jurisprudence—and her character.

Dahlia Lithwick’s complete January interview with Justice Ginsburg about her time at Harvard Law School--and about her fellow female classmates.

The attorney general is not just a Trump enabler, he has his own agenda.

The new fronts of voting rights battles.

Working's June Thomas talks with Dahlia Lithwick and Molly Olmstead about the project.

Dahlia Lithwick talks to Justice Ginsburg about her time at Harvard Law School--and about her fellow female classmates.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and two of her classmates discuss their lives from Harvard Law School through today.

Who were the nine other women in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Harvard Law Class? The justice remembers them all.

Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG

As the Supreme Court term comes to a close, the chief justice shows his political acuity.

Exploring the division of opinion in June Medical Services LLC v Russo.

Dissecting two huge decisions in one Supreme Court week.

Where is the justice and what is this Justice Department?

The financial records cases, who’s getting cut off on the all-new SCOTUS call-in show, and why the law is for suckers.

Bill Barr drops things, SCOTUS phones it in, and Little Sisters intervene.

Colorado State Attorney General Phil Weiser on cooperative federalism, COVID-19, and faithless electors.

Election lawyer Marc Elias on what this week’s election mess can teach us ahead of November.

What we need to hold onto, especially during the COVID-19 crisis.

Professor Michele Goodwin on holding onto civil liberties when the world turns upside down.