This End Of Term At SCOTUS Is Unlike Any Other in History
The end (of the Supreme Court term) is nigh. This week, Amicus goes into June Opinionpalooza mode with some meta-analysis of what to look out for as the Supreme Court delivers dozens of decisions over...
31 Maj 20251h 8min
The Two Tracks of Justice
This week’s episode attempts to understand the ways in which the law of Trump unfolds along two tracks at the same time. First, Mark Joseph Stern joins us to talk about the Supreme Court’s decision to...
24 Maj 20251h 9min
SCOTUS Is About to Suffer Buyers Remorse, Again
Our eyes this week were trained on the arguments over birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court on Thursday. While Solicitor General John Sauer advanced wild arguments on behalf of the Trump adminis...
17 Maj 202556min
SCOTUS, Meet The Broligarchs
After Silicon Valley’s yeet to the right after Donald Trump was elected in 2016, and the DOGE-ification of the federal government (read: chaos and abuse as the driving ethos of HR), it felt like high ...
10 Maj 20251h 1min
The Un-American Project
Whether it’s attempting to overturn birthright citizenship, effectively stripping citizenship from American children, or claiming Alien Enemy Act war powers under an imaginary invasion, Trump’s anti-i...
3 Maj 20251h 14min
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
