Parsing the Shadow Docket
This episode is brought to you by Simplisafe. Start protecting your home today at simplisafe.com/amicus.Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Dean Risa Goluboff and Vice-Dean Leslie Kenrick of the University o...
16 Feb 201953min
Amicus Presents: The Pre-Crime Unit
Predictive policing technology is spreading across the country, and Los Angeles is the epicenter. A small group of LA activists are in a lopsided campaign against billions of dollars in city, federal,...
9 Feb 201947min
What Did We Learn From The Trans Ban Injunction Decision?
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Sharon McGowan, legal director of Lambda Legal, to discuss how they’re fighting the trans ban following SCOTUS decision to lift the injunctions on the policy going into ac...
2 Feb 201956min
We’re Back to Where Mueller Began: Counterintelligence
UPDATE: On the evening Friday January 18th, after production of this episode of Amicus had wrapped, special counsel spokesman Peter Carr issued the following statement: "BuzzFeed’s description of spec...
19 Jan 201948min
The Threat of National Emergency
What would a national emergency look like, and why hasn't Trump declared one yet? Dahlia Lithwick has answers and joins What Next, Slate's new daily news podcast, Plus: Was it weird that Ruth Bader Gi...
11 Jan 201920min
Chief Justice John Roberts, a Rock, and a Hard Place
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst and author of the upcoming book The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts, to unpack John Roberts’ State of th...
5 Jan 201958min
The Incrementalist RBG
Before news of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lung surgery broke, Dahlia Lithwick sat down for a revealing conversation with the screenwriter Daniel Stiepelman about the RBG biopic he penned, On The Ba...
22 Dec 201847min
Mapping the Mueller Investigation
*This week's show was recorded before Friday's filings concerning Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, but the merits of the discussion stand. Mimi Rocah, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern Distr...
8 Dec 20181h 6min
