The Anti-Trump Cases That Have Changed The Game
As we approach President Trump’s 100th day in office (this time around) this Wednesday, Dahlia Lithwick checks in with one of the key architects of the litigation strategy that is successfully confoun...
26 Apr 20251h 8min
Playing Chicken With the Constitution
Ever since March 15, when three flights carrying hundreds of men who had been afforded zero due process left United States airspace and landed in El Salvador, American democracy has been hurtling towa...
19 Apr 20251h 11min
A Lawyer’s Guide to Not Caving to the President
On this week’s Amicus, autocratic creep in high and low gear. In high gear: The Supreme Court finally issued its order in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case, requiring that the government “facilitates” Abreg...
12 Apr 202555min
Sneak Preview: The Supreme Court Just Gave The Trump Administration Everything It Wanted—Almost
Here’s a question for you. If you are scooped up by ICE (masked, covering badge numbers), then moved from one detention center to another in quick succession, before being hastily forced onto a flight...
8 Apr 20256min
He Was Deported by Administrative Error. We Talked to His Lawyer.
The US government’s use of a prison in El Salvador as an extra-judicial due-process free black site has been rendered starkly visible by the story of one man they tried to disappear. On this week’s Am...
5 Apr 202548min
Trump’s Plan To Put A Chokehold On Voting
The Trumpian inversion of reality was threaded into so many areas of the law and active litigation this week. Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the apparent evapor...
29 Mar 20251h 9min
The Rule of Law Took A Very Dark Turn This Week
If you’re overwhelmed by the sheer volume of lawless acts, constitutional crises (we count five), and huge Trump administration losses in court this week - honestly, same. But if anyone can render thi...
22 Mar 20251h 13min
Sneak Preview: An Escalating Constitutional Crisis
In this urgent extra episode of Amicus, host Dahlia Lithwick and Slate's senior writer Mark Joseph Stern discuss the unfolding constitutional crisis triggered by the Trump administration's defiance o...
18 Mar 20259min
