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.

Big questions for the new president of the American Constitution Society, Russ Feingold.

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.