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Jack Smith and Juan Merchan might know the law, but they’re still learning The Law of Trump
1 day, 14 hours ago

Jack Smith and Juan Merchan might know the law, but they’re still learning The Law of Trump

Slate  

How do you eat an elephant? * There is a cluster-you-know-what of constitutional and legal news this week, so Amicus Plus is popping up a little early with a bonus episode to tackle the Trump prosecutions portion of the melee ahead of Friday’s very important TikTok-ban arguments. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Andrew Weissman, co-host of the MSNBC podcast “Prosecuting …

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Justice Clarence Thomas broke the law, the judicial conference is shrugging.
6 days, 23 hours ago

Justice Clarence Thomas broke the law, the judicial conference is shrugging.

Slate  

Welcome to the Amicus Plus secret treehouse, where Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern give the legal news of the week some major side-eye. This week’s bonus episode could have had the subtitle: “The ‘Legally Possible’ Is Not Always The ‘Politically Plausible,’ But Has A Recent History of Happening Anyway” but … character limits. Dahlia and Mark respond to the …

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts takes a page out of Trump’s playbook.
6 days, 23 hours ago

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts takes a page out of Trump’s playbook.

Slate  

Amicus is gingerly stepping into 2025 and into the coming onslaught of Trump 2.0 with one of the country’s very best legal, constitutional and human guides—civil rights litigator and 14th Amendment scholar Sherrilyn Ifill. In his end of year judicial report, Chief Justice John Roberts chose to claim the mantle of both embattled civil rights champions and also infallible monarchs …

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Trump’s NLRB is posed to be more anti-worker than ever. Wait, what?
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Trump’s NLRB is posed to be more anti-worker than ever. Wait, what?

Slate  

With Donald Trump weeks away from returning to the White House, folks in Washington are making their moves. On this week’s Amicus Plus bonus episode, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Stern check in with Senators Manchin and Sinema, your favorite upper chamber “centrists”, who are perfecting the fine art of obeying in advance, with dire consequences for workers’ rights and the …

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Trump’s second term will be more lawless than the last
1 month, 1 week ago

Trump’s second term will be more lawless than the last

Slate  

Each week, Dahlia Lithwick welcomes you to the show by saying “Amicus is Slate’s podcast about the courts, the law and the Supreme Court.” Sometimes that list includes the rule of law, sometimes democracy. In the wake of the election, Amicus and Slate’s jurisprudence team have been wrangling some big questions around what we do and how we do it. …

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Gaetz is gone, but will SCOTUS bless Trump trampling the Senate?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Gaetz is gone, but will SCOTUS bless Trump trampling the Senate?

Slate  

If you had forgotten the chaos of Trump 1.0, the frenzied first two weeks of transition to Trump 2.0 has surely been a stark reminder. A pair of random billionaires are claiming in advance that SCOTUS will back their extra-governmental plans for a slash and burn policy for federal agencies; accusations of sexual misconduct swirl around cabinet picks; nominations are …

Trump Slate Plus
Trump’s mass deportation promise is based on a dangerous law that is still on the books.
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump’s mass deportation promise is based on a dangerous law that is still on the books.

Slate  

It’s easy to dismiss nativist rhetoric as mere Trumpy “locker room talk.” But when it comes to immigration, deportation, and even detention, rhetoric about foreigners and violent invaders is actually a legal long game. Toward the end of the summer of 2023, Katherine Yon Ebright, counsel in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, noticed that right-wing anti-immigration groups …

Trump Slate Podcasts
Will Trump steal the election? Here’s how it could happen.
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Will Trump steal the election? Here’s how it could happen.

Slate  

As we stop for gas with almost two weeks to go before Nov. 5, we’re kicking the tires of American democracy to see if it’s roadworthy. On this week’s show, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Matthew Seligman, one of the authors of How to Steal a Presidential Election, to examine the legal avenues available to Donald J. Trump and his …

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Election 2024: Ron DeSantis’ Florida abortion rules are key in the state.
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Election 2024: Ron DeSantis’ Florida abortion rules are key in the state.

Slate  

On this week’s bonus episode, exclusively for Slate Plus members, Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern and Dahlia go over this week’s arguments in Garland v VanDerStok, the case concerning untraceable, unlicensed DIY gun kits also known as ghost guns. Next, Dahlia and Mark turn their attention to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ loose relationship with the First Amendment, especially when it comes …

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Chief Justice John Roberts: Trump Team Captain, or centrist judge?
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Chief Justice John Roberts: Trump Team Captain, or centrist judge?

Slate  

Chief Justice John Roberts has been labeled by some as the serious centrist at the court, and he seemed to embrace and internalize that. But the New York Times’ revelations about behind-the-scenes maneuvers favoring Trump in last term’s insurrection cases shattered that illusion once and for all. As we head into another pivotal Supreme Court term, Dahlia Lithwick and Greenhouse …

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s dangerous myth-making: The origins of originalism.
8 months, 1 week ago

The U.S. Supreme Court’s dangerous myth-making: The origins of originalism.

Slate  

In this, the first part of a special series on Amicus and at Slate.com, we are lifting the lid on an old-timey sounding method of constitutional interpretation that has unleashed a revolution in our courts, and an assault on our rights. But originalism’s origins are much more recent than you suppose, and its effects much more widespread than the constitutional …

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Supreme Court rules Trump can be on the Colorado ballot: What it means for the 2024 election.
55 years ago

Supreme Court rules Trump can be on the Colorado ballot: What it means for the 2024 election.

Slate  

This episode is member-exclusive. By joining, not only will you unlock exclusive SCOTUS analysis and extended episodes of Amicus, but you’ll also access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. The Supreme Court ruled early Monday that alleged insurrectionist Donald Trump can remain on the Colorado republican primary ballot, and that no state may remove him, even if they …

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The Trump Trials Doomsday Clock Just Ticked a Second Closer to Midnight
11 months ago

The Trump Trials Doomsday Clock Just Ticked a Second Closer to Midnight

Slate  

After weeks of waiting, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a decision in Donald J Trump’s appeal for sweeping immunity from prosecution for any of his actions while in office on grounds of a kind of post-presidential enduring presidenty-ness. The panel of three judges wrote: “We cannot accept former President Trump’s claim that a President has unbounded …

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