Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

As the high court continues through its unprecedented session, Dahlia speaks with Adam Liptak who covers the Supreme Cou... Read more

On April 28, the Supreme Court will finally take up the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans. Dahlia Lithwick pre... Read more

Amicus presents a preview of Slow Burn, an eight-episode miniseries about Watergate. People called her crazy, and to be ... Read more

The Supreme Court’s 2016 term may not have contained the usual number of blockbuster cases, but it did have its fair sha... Read more

This week, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that caught some Court-watchers off-guard. It ruled that North Carol... Read more

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Slate’s own Mark Joseph Stern to discuss Chief Justice John Roberts’ New Year’s resolutions... Read more

Dahlia previews United States v. Texas – this week’s big immigration case – with Brianne Gorod of the Constitutional Acc... Read more

On Ep. 3 of Amicus, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick talks with the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin about his recent interview with P... Read more

Dahlia Lithwick pans back this week to assess what’s holding and what’s buckling in terms of norms and institutions, two... Read more

On Monday, the Supreme Court invalidated two provisions of Texas’ omnibus abortion law known as HB2. The 5-3 decision in... Read more

Dahlia Lithwick wants to know what’s next in the impeachment process, so she asks Professor Michael Gerhardt, an expert ... Read more

UPDATE: On the evening Friday January 18th, after production of this episode of Amicus had wrapped, special counsel spok... Read more

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Stuart Gerson of the conservative legal group Checks and Balances to talk about development... Read more

Dahlia Lithwick talks to Joan Biskupic, the author of a new Reuters study about the elite "one-percent" group of lawyers... Read more

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Melissa Murray of NYU Law School, who gave blistering testimony at the Kavanaugh ... Read more

Marriage equality. Voting Rights. Obamacare. These are among the many enormously consequential causes that have fallen t... Read more

With an execution looming, Dahlia Lithwick revisits Panetti v. Quarterman, a case involving mental illness and the death... Read more

Dahlia Lithwick calls former prosecutor Mimi Rocah for an answer to a question Amicus listeners often ask. She then asks... Read more

A swathe of draconian abortion laws have been passed by states around the country in the past few weeks, but Alabama out... Read more

As the Supreme Court prepares to revisit the constitutionality of lethal injection, Dahlia Lithwick speaks with two expe... Read more