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A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America.

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It’s past time to say it. This Supreme Court is helping President Donald J. Trump evade accountability. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the Berkeley School of Law, joins Dahlia Lithwick to break down the conservative majority's procedural toolkit—standing... more

With Amicus on a brief summer break, we’re bringing you the final installment of Slow Burn’s latest season, Becoming Justice Gorsuch. Host Susan Matthews enlists Slate’s jurisprudence team—Amicus co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern—to disc... more

With Amicus on a brief summer break, we’re bringing you the second installment of Slow Burn’s latest season, Becoming Justice Gorsuch.

When Justice Antonin Scalia died in February of 2016, the Supreme Court appeared to be headed for a 5-4 liberal ma... more

Our friends over at the Slate podcast Slow Burn are good at taking events that we think are settled history, then unlocking a new understanding of those stories through interviews, archives, and fresh analysis. They’ve reexamined Supreme Court histor... more

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Recent Guests

Al Franken
Former Minnesota Senator, interviewer in confirmation hearing segment
Former Senator (Minnesota)
Episode: Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 1. Man With a Plan
Liz Plachette
Neil Gorsuch's former classmate at Columbia University
Columbia University (classmate)
Episode: Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 1. Man With a Plan
Jamelle Bouie
Columnist for the New York Times; historian of American politics and history
The New York Times
Episode: By the People | Now It’s Your Turn
Marc Solomon
Key campaign architect for the marriage equality movement
Freedom to Marry (National Campaign Director)
Episode: By The People | Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Lyle Cherneff
Lawyer and assistant visiting professor at the University of Minnesota Law School
University of Minnesota Law School
Episode: By the People | For the Children
Larry Kramer
Professor and administrator discussing popular constitutionalism and judicial review
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Episode: By the People | Who Owns the Constitution?
Nikolas Bowie
Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; historian of federal constitutional law
Harvard Law School
Episode: The Term the Court Stopped Pretending
Sam Bagenstos
Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, expert in civil rights and governance
University of Michigan
Episode: Bad History Will Kill America
Jed Shugerman
Professor of Law and Harry Elwood Warren Scholar at Boston University School of Law, historian of executive power
Boston University School of Law
Episode: Bad History Will Kill America

Hosts

Dahlia Lithwick
Host of Amicus with a focus on the courts, law, and justice
Mark Joseph Stern
Co-host; legal journalist providing analysis on the courts and jurisprudence

Reviews

4.6 out of 5 stars from 4.3k ratings
  • An amazing Supreme Court decision

    Podcast Addict
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    slatersli@hotmail.com
    2 months ago
  • Best SCOTUS Analysis Podcast!

    I have subscribed and followed just about every SCOTUS podcast there has been since the pandemic. Most were a flash in the pan. Most of the rest are so loaded with snark and attitude that it clouds the quality of the legal analysis. Amicus stands head and shoulders above the rest.

    Dalia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stearns have carefully laid exactly how the justices on this Supreme Court have stopped practicing law.

    1) There has to be an actual controversy? No. 2) The plaintiff must have ... more

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    NewsJunkyMidwest
    United States3 months ago
  • May 21, 2026

    First rule of womens fight clubs across the world: Don’t argue or debate with men about abortion. Men go through none of the physical issues with abortion or a pregnancy. Mens voices should be silent yet women with power have allowed them to once again control us and note for the record, I am not a male hater. control over my own body without meddling and legal coercion to steal my rights to my body is wrong. Mens voices on the abortion issue is absurd and we have to stop them having the control... more

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    midwestBlue
    United States3 months ago
  • Has annoying clips...

    Podchaser
    3
    Seyfert
    4 months ago
  • Shell of former program

    This was my “Ride or Die” podcast for so long - back when the Supreme Court was (mostly) independent. Now it’s mostly painful to listen to; literally and figuratively (Norm Eisen, Biden apologist?!?). Will not delete because some of the most interesting cases have been dissected on this show.

    Apple Podcasts
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    Alpine Aries
    United States5 months ago

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Guests are often top legal scholars or civil rights experts, adding depth to discussions.
Listeners praise rigorous, accessible legal analysis and clear explanations of complex court cases.

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Talking Points

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By the People | Now It’s Your Turn
Q: What practical steps can ordinary Americans take to reshape constitutional meaning today?
Engage in organizing at state and local levels, participate in protests and campaigns, prompt lawmakers to defend rights through legislation, and demand ethics and structural reforms of the judiciary; these efforts create a bottom-up process that can shift constitutional interpretation.
By the People | Now It’s Your Turn
Q: Jamelle, why has the public grown accustomed to viewing the Court as the final arbiter of the Constitution, and what breaks that pattern?
Bouie argues the shift is historical and systemic, tied to the Warren and post-Warren eras, media narratives, and professionalization of the Court; the antidote is active citizen participation, legislative checks, and a reorientation toward political process and text beyond court rulings.
By the People | For the Children
Q: Dahlia, picking up from where we left off last week, you talked about learned helplessness. What did you mean by that in the context of the Supreme Court and the Constitution?
The answer explains how popular constitutionalism challenges the idea that the Court alone decides constitutional meaning, emphasizing grassroots petitions and the lived experiences of ordinary people as a corrective to judicial abstraction.
A Huge Shift is Underway at SCOTUS
Q: How should non-civil rights attorneys understand the Office of Legal Counsel's stance on disparate impact liability and what it implies for enforcement of the civil rights statutes?
Disallowing disparate impact liability reframes many voting rights and employment discrimination issues around intent, potentially limiting remedies for discriminatory effects and shrinking the tools available to challenge discriminatory practices.
A Huge Shift is Underway at SCOTUS
Q: So maybe just to set the table, Pam, can you try to encapsulate for us what has shifted on the ground in the last couple of weeks at the court?
The Court has moved to effectively eviscerate key protections in the Voting Rights Act and related civil rights frameworks, signaling a broader shift toward narrowing Congress's remedial powers and increasing the court's own role in shaping voting and election law.

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