
A Look at the Original Quid Pro Quo: Emoluments.
Dahlia Lithwick calls former prosecutor Mimi Rocah for an answer to a question Amicus listeners often ask. She then asks Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, if all hope is lost for the federal jud...
9 Nov 20191h 7min

Bonus: Impeachment and the “Spy Stuff”
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, to talk about the role of intelligence and counterintelligence in the Mueller probe, the impea...
29 Okt 201935min

The Conservative Legal Resistance
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Stuart Gerson of the conservative legal group Checks and Balances to talk about developments in the border-wall case he helped bring in El Paso, Texas; the view of impeach...
26 Okt 201957min

Impeachment Primer
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by all-star SCOTUS experts to walk us through this week’s biggest legal and constitutional developments. First, Laurence Tribe answers the questions Amicus listeners have bee...
12 Okt 20191h 6min

Get Ready for the Most Significant Supreme Court Term in a Decade
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, who explains the biggest cases facing the Supreme Court this term. Then Nancy Northup, pres...
5 Okt 201945min

How Donald Trump Weaponizes the Law
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Walter Dellinger to discuss impeachment, and the role of White House lawyers in “Ukraine-gate”.And James Zirin, author of Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in...
28 Sep 20191h 19min

The Clerk’s Eye View of Justice John Paul Stevens
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Professor Sonja West of the University of Georgia School of Law and Professor Jamal Greene of Columbia Law School, both former clerks to Supreme Court Justice John Paul St...
14 Sep 20191h 5min

Redefining The Executive Power
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Julian Mortenson, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan to discuss his work to re-frame the conversation around “the executive power”. His paper, “Article II Vest...
31 Aug 201955min



















