Amicus: Revenge of the Octogenarians

Mercury Rising: How should the EPA weigh costs when regulating toxic emissions? Dahlia Lithwick speaks with lawyers on both sides of a Supreme Court case posing that question. And she reviews the highlights of a case testing the limits of free speech on license plates. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

31 min listen

The Machinery of Death: As serious questions about lethal injection protocols continue to swirl, Dahlia speaks with The Marshall Project’s Andrew Cohen about where the Supreme Court currently stands on the constitutionality of the death penalty. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

33 min listen

The Super Lawyers: Dahlia Lithwick talks to Joan Biskupic, the author of a new Reuters study about the elite "one-percent" group of lawyers who bring most of the cases at the Supreme Court. She also hears from two of these super-lawyers -- Tom Goldstein and Paul Clement by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

37 min listen

Amicus: Revenge of the Octogenarians: On Ep. 3 of Amicus, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick talks with the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin about his recent interview with President Obama on Obama’s judicial legacy. Then Dahlia welcomes Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer who won last... by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

35 min listen

Mental Illness and the Death Penalty: With an execution looming, Dahlia Lithwick revisits Panetti v. Quarterman, a case involving mental illness and the death penalty. Her guests are Scott Panetti’s lawyer Kathryn Kase and Brandon Garrett of the University of Virginia. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

39 min listen

Amicus: Let's Salsa with Sotomayor: On Ep. 2 of Amicus, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick and former acting solicitor general Walter Dellinger discuss the Surpreme Court’s recent non-decisions about abortion and voter I.D. laws. Then Dahlia talks with Joan Biskupic, author of a new... by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

33 min listen

Botched Protocols: As the Supreme Court prepares to revisit the constitutionality of lethal injection, Dahlia Lithwick speaks with two experts about the controversial drugs being used for execution and whether the capital punishment system can be repaired. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

31 min listen

Cameras in the Courtroom: Dahlia Lithwick speaks with Sonja West and RonNell Andersen Jones, two Supreme Court experts who don’t buy the justices’ arguments against allowing cameras in the courtroom. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

39 min listen

The Letter of the Law: As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act -- King v. Burwell -- Dahlia Lithwick hears from experts on both sides of what could be the most important case in the Court’s entire term. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

42 min listen

Jerusalem Born: Fresh off oral arguments in the Supreme Court, Alyza Lewin discusses Zivotofsky v. Kerry, which asks if Congress or the President has ultimate authority over passports. Plus, Yates v. U.S. debates whether grouper should qualify as "tangible objects." by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

30 min listen

Making the Case: This week, we take you inside the courtroom for the recent gay marriage case at the Supreme Court. Dahlia listens to highlights of oral arguments with Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, one of the lawyers who represented same-sex couples in the historic case. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

37 min listen

The Case Against the Case Against Confirmation: More than two weeks into the standoff over Merrick Garland’s nomination to SCOTUS, GOP leaders show no sign of backing down. Legal scholar Geoffrey Stone tells Dahlia that this stonewalling is not only unprecedented, but unjustifiable as well. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

37 min listen

Ready for Her Close-Up: This week we learned that Natalie Portman will play a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a new film about the Supreme Court Justice. On this episode, Dahlia and her guests consider the recent explosion of Court-related dramatizations on the stage and screen. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

40 min listen

Amicus: The Storm Arrives: Over two consecutive days, the Supreme Court handed down historic decisions on same-sex marriage and Obamacare. Dahlia Lithwick and Walter Dellinger react. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

31 min listen

2015 Term Preview: Dahlia sits down with the LA Times’ David Savage to consider three of the big cases on the SCOTUS docket this fall -- and whether liberals are right to be worried about the outcomes of those cases. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

36 min listen

"Thank You," Not "Please": Dahlia Lithwick talks to Andrew Pincus, the lawyer who brought a Supreme Court challenge this week to a law banning fundraising by judicial candidates. And she hears from the NAACP’s Sherrilyn Ifill on the latest challenge to the Fair Housing Act. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

36 min listen

Amicus: Ballot-Box Special: On Ep. 4 of Amicus, a pre-election special. Dahlia sits down with UC Irvine law professor Rick Hasen, founder of Election Law Blog, to survey the landscape of state voter ID laws. They consider the effect of recent headlines on voters' confidence in... by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

24 min listen

Marriage Arrives: On April 28, the Supreme Court will finally take up the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans. Dahlia Lithwick previews the cases with Paul Smith, the lawyer involved in the 2003 gay rights case that helped set the stage for this historic event. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

30 min listen

Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick: On Ep. 1 of Amicus, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick discusses the opening of the Surpreme Court’s new term with Tom Goldstein, publisher of SCOTUSblog. Dahlia also welcomes Douglas Laycock, who argued the case of a Muslim prisoner who wants to... by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

38 min listen

No Second Chances: In Montgomery v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court takes up the case of a man who has served 53 years in prison for a murder he committed as a juvenile. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

33 min listen

A Certain Justice: This week, Dahlia speaks with a former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas about the strong stances that Thomas has been taking recently. And she asks what’s at stake in a big challenge to “One Person One Vote” that SCOTUS will take up next term. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

43 min listen

The Calm Before the Storm: On today’s episode, Dahlia takes stock of the big whammy decisions just around the corner at the Supreme Court, and considers a few of the major abortion cases that could be following shortly on their heels. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

31 min listen

Throwing Away the Key: Seven years after ruling that detainees at Guantanamo Bay were entitled to the protections of the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Court seems to have turned its back on the remaining detainees there. On this week’s episode, we ask why. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

32 min listen

Rapper's Intent: Dahlia Lithwick talks to rap music scholar Charis Kubrin about Elonis v. U.S., and about how courts are using rap lyrics in criminal proceedings. She also hears from Sam Bagenstos, who argued this week’s pregnancy discrimination case Young v. United Par by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

33 min listen

Class Dismissed?: Dahlia speaks with Carter Phillips, the lawyer who represented Tyson Foods at SCOTUS this week in its attempt to dismiss a class action suit by workers. She also considers the love-hate relationship between presidential hopefuls and the high court. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

35 min listen

The Term in Review: ahlia sits down with three fellow SCOTUS-watchers — Kenji Yoshino, Mark Joseph Stern, and Christian Turner — to reflect on the just-completed term and how it will go down in history. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

43 min listen

The 25th Amendment, What's That? by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

48 min listen

The Case of the Missing Constitutional Violation: In Heffernan v City of Paterson, the Supreme Court must decide whether a government worker can be punished for a political belief his employers attribute to him. This week, Dahlia speaks with lawyers on both sides of the topsy-turvy case. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

30 min listen

And Then There Were Eight: Trump winnows his shortlist for the Supreme Court’s empty seat. And we preview a big special education case that will be argued next week. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

49 min listen

Sock the Vote: To mark the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Dahlia sits down with The Nation’s Ari Berman to discuss the decades-long campaign to roll back the achievements of the landmark 1965 legislation. by Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

34 min listen

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