How disinformation undermines elections.

Doomsday scenarios and hopeful actions in the final part of our voting-rights series.

Rhetoric and reality: When is it OK to say an election was “stolen”?

Delving into the big bag of dirty tricks ahead of the 2020 election.

Paper jams, lost forms, and lost boxes—incompetence and elections.

Precedents for future presidents, and questions for current citizens

The voter fraud that wasn’t, the voter suppression that is.

As the Chief Justice and Senators swear in for Donald J Trump’s impeachment trial, a lawyer’s eye view of proceedings.

Live from the Aspen Institute, a conversation about the case against Donald Trump.

Looking ahead to a turbulent 2020 for the chief justice.

Lawyers on the crisis at the border, and a cacophony of bad faith in the Capitol.

Living through the era of school shootings, one drill at a time.

History lessons and a constitutional law clinic at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on impeachment.

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

The next steps for impeachment, and deciphering the DACA arguments with Janet Napolitano.

In partnership with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

We’re talking fact patterns: impeachment, the federal courts, and emoluments.

House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Jim Himes on the intersection of the law and national security.

Stuart Gerson on the case for impeachment from the right, plus Cyrus Habib on listening.

Answering all the questions you’ve had about the constitutional crisis but were afraid to ask.

The justices are tackling abortion, guns, DACA, and LGBTQ rights.

From his first real-estate suits all the way to Ukrainegate, Trump’s legal (and extralegal) bag of tricks.

Remembering the late Supreme Court justice with Professors Sonja West and Jamal Greene.

Overturning the conventional wisdom on presidential powers with a radical reading of constitutional history.

What the lack of legal representation in the civil courts can teach us about justice.

Michele Goodwin on America’s defining issue, and on papering over the gaping holes in the constitution.

What we lost with the passing of Justice John Paul Stevens, and Mary Anne Franks on what we lose when we unquestioningly revere the nation’s founding document.

Frank Bowman on impeachment--its history and meaning, and whether it’s meant to be so hard.

A round table round-up of the 2018 Supreme Court term with Dahlia Lithwick, Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern, Professor Pam Karlan of Stanford and Professor Leah Litman of the University of Michigan Law School. Analysis of the census case, the gerrymandering cases, and the down-docket items you might have missed, but whose repercussions you won’t.

Present-tense SCOTUS decision analysis that reaches all the way back to the Magna Carta for context.

Adam Cohen on how the Supreme Court Justice picked up his thesis on eugenics, and ran with it, in the opposite direction.

Surveying legislative assaults on the right to choose, and what guides the chief justice’s thinking about abortion.

Federal Court Judge Robert Lasnik of the Western District of Washington on judicial self-governance, racial fairness in the courts and… Quoting Bob Dylan.

A Mueller report rundown with former Department of Justice spokesperson Matt Miller and Fordham Law Professor Jed Shugerman

The robes are on but the gloves are off when it comes to capital punishment.

Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern unpack the arguments in the North Carolina and Maryland gerrymander cases heard by the Supreme Court this week, and Aaron Belkin of advocacy group Pack the Courts tells us why packing the courts is becoming a serious topic in the Democratic presidential race. Please let us know what you think of Amicus. Join the discussion of this episode on Facebook. Our email is amicus@slate.com.

Dahlia Lithwick pans back this week to assess what’s holding and what’s buckling in terms of norms and institutions, two years and change into the Trump presidency. She’s joined by Ian Bassin of Protect Democracy, a new kind of litigation shop looking at global trends toward authoritarianism and trying to resist those trends in the United States.

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by conservative lawyer Stuart Gerson and finds common ground over the President’s declaration of a national emergency so he can build the wall. And Leah Litman helps us take a lawyerly look at Michael Cohen’s testimony before congress this week.

What recent seemingly procedural SCOTUS decisions can tell us about substance.

Lambda Legal’s Sharon McGowan on their setback at SCOTUS.

Yale’s Asha Rangappa takes us inside “the spy stuff.”

How will the chief justice reconcile his conservatism with his institutionalism in a divided court?

A conversation with screenwriter Daniel Stiepelman on the biopic On the Basis of Sex, about his aunt, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Mimi Rocah draws a legal map of the Special Counsel’s investigation, dotted with “buckets of criminality”, plus inside the arguments about whether half of Oklahoma is an Indian Reservation.

The White House settled CNN’s suit, but big questions remain.

Is Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker even legal? And why the census citizenship question is so problematic.

Reading tea leaves on the cases before the court this term and spilling the tea on where voting rights stand for the midterms.

As Justice Kavanaugh takes his seat, Dahlia Lithwick takes stock with Senator Jeff Merkley and Matthew Yglesias.

A legal all-star panel on Kavanaugh, the coming SCOTUS term, and the future of the court.

Law Professors Lisa Sun and RonNell Andersen Jones on morphing the media into enemies of the people.

SPECIAL: Surviving a School Shooting, From a Teacher's Point of View

Trump’s nominee is not super into precedent, it seems.

From armbands to Parkland, free speech rights inside the school gates.

The intellectual property battle about much more than plastic dolls.

Rick Hasen on his book “The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption”

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on the frustrating process of vetting a new Supreme Court justice.

Our annual look at the end of the Supreme Court term.

Analysis of SCOTUS gerrymandering and voter purge decisions with Paul M Smith, who argued two of the cases.

A legal all-star panel with David Cole, Vanita Gupta, Joyce White Vance and Richard Painter.

Examining the narrow slicing of the Masterpiece cake shop holding, and contemplating the role of faith in our laws.

It’s a possibility, but should it be a goal?

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey on gun safety wins, the resistance, and Eric Schneiderman

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.

NIFLA v Becerra may be all about reproductive rights, but it’s a speech case, too.

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.

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.

The case of the capital defendant who insisted “I’m innocent” while his lawyer told everyone “he did it” reaches the Supreme Court.

SCOTUS will weigh whether Ohio had the right to purge more than a million voters who sat out elections.

What’s next, and what’s needed, in the wake of sexual harassment claims concerning the judiciary?

A preview of Slate's eight-episode miniseries about Watergate.

As is so often the case, all eyes are on Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern, and Pam Karlan chew over the Supreme Court term just completed.

What counts as “obstruction of justice?” And, should judges pay any attention to Trump’s Twitter feed?

The most conservative justice casts a decisive vote to invalidate race-based voting lines.

A group of law professors tells a federal court that religious bias lies at the heart of Trump’s travel ban.

In the context of a capital trial, is there any such thing?

An important church-state case at the Supreme Court centers on tire scraps repurposed for kids’ play areas.

Did eight men spend decades in prison for somebody else’s crime? And – a history of confirmation hearings.

Were his hearings as pointless as they seemed?

It’s not that he’s a bad judge, or that he was nominated by a president so compromised by scandal. Plus – a veteran D.C. journalist tries his hand at fiction.

After spending years challenging a draconian voter ID law in Texas, the DOJ abruptly changes course. Plus – a thorny deportation case is argued at SCOTUS.

How state attorneys general are going on the offensive against the most egregious parts of the Trump agenda. And – the Constitution’s limits on the U.S.-Mexico border.

A deep dive into the Ninth Circuit’s ruling on President Trump’s immigration ban.