Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, ju...
A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America.
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1
The Jurisprudence of Bleeding Out
SCOTUS is about to decide whether being on the brink of death is the only way pregnant patients can qualify for emergency abortion care.
65 min
2
When Gag Orders Become Campaign-Performance Ind...
What to do when a presidential campaign folds in the characteristics of terrorism.
36 min
3
When RAGA Rhymes with MAGA
The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) is part of the conservative legal movement’s holy trinity, and all in for Trump.
47 min
4
How The Mifepristone Case Reached SCOTUS
Will this Supreme Court reward three decades of activism against abortion pills and ban the safest, most popular abortion method in the United States?
54 min
5
Who Gets to Lie Online?
On Monday, the Supreme Court hears a case about the government’s ability to combat online misinformation about COVID and elections.
41 min
6
The Lies Destroying America
American democracy is losing the battle against disinformation, but all is not lost.
51 min
7
Yes, You Can Vote for an Insurrectionist
The Supreme Court unanimously restored Trump to the Colorado primary ballot, but a clutch of conservative justices went further - neutering 14th amendment’s insurrection clause.
8 min
8
The IVF Decision We Should Have Seen Coming
You can draw a straight line from Jim Crow to Dobbs and the Alabama IVF decision
58 min
9
A Series of Lawsuits That We Call an Election
How to fix the laws, and the gaps in the law, that are breaking American democracy.
51 min
10
Fani Willis and a Tale of Two Ethics Violations
Ethics for thee but not for me in the many trials of Donald Trump
50 min
11
Is SCOTUS Afraid of Holding Trump to Account?
The Justices were so obsessed with finding off-ramps in the Trump disqualification case, they may have set a dangerous trap for the future.
50 min
12
The Trump Trials Doomsday Clock Just Ticked a S...
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals invites the US Supreme Court to join another game of chicken with the 2024 election.
6 min
13
The Neglected Constitutional History That Disqu...
But will the Supreme Court’s originalists stick to their guns in next week’s Colorado ballot case?
50 min
14
Donald Trump and the Apex of MAGA Misogyny
What the E. Jean Carroll Trials Tell Us About Republicans’ Devolving Views on Women
32 min
15
Greg Abbott and the Battle for the Texas Border
What a constitutional crisis looks like up close and personal.
48 min
16
The Supreme Court Gave Itself Huge Extra Powers...
Next week’s Loper Bright case could change the way the government works. It also highlights the danger of the Supreme Court picking questions to suit its politics.
60 min
17
Deja Coup: Donald Trump and the Slow Civil War
Stop waiting for the next insurrection—we’re already in it.
55 min
18
The Very Worst of SCOTUS 2023
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Stern join forces for their second annual barrel-scraping rundown of the Supreme Court’s worst moments of the past year.
53 min
19
The Many Trials of Donald J. Trump
Donald Trump needs the courts to work for him in 2024. Will they?
42 min
20
Texas Abortion Laws’ Cruel Outcomes
The results of overturning Roe have reached their awful, logical conclusion.
57 min
21
Billionaires Had a Bad Week at the Supreme Court
Are oligarchs getting the return they deserve on their SCOTUS investments?
45 min
22
Remembering Sandra Day O’Connor
Reflections from Justice O’Connor’s former clerk on the woman who bore the burden of “first” at SCOTUS
59 min
23
From "The Political Scene": Trump's Vindictive...
From our friends at The New Yorker's “The Political Scene” podcast, what would a second Trump Administration look like in comparison to the first, and how would America’s democratic institutions fare?
35 min
24
Is The Federalist Society Over?
What’s next for the conservative legal movement after its “dog catches car” moment.
43 min
25
Dunking On Trump's Lawyers Might Not Be The Win...
The lawyering may be bad and the dunking may be fun, but both things miss the point.
60 min