Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

President Donald J Trump’s administration has been invoking a conservative legal theory as... more

On Monday, President Trump’s personal lawyer and Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ... more

DOGE is running wild in the District of Columbia. Chaos reigns supreme. Trump 2.0 has been... more

If you’re punch-drunk and disoriented this week, come on in. Donald J Trump’s second admin... more

Amicus is coming to you with an extra episode because of the five-alarm threat to the bala... more

It’s barely been a week and the torrent of horrible coming from the pens and mouth of Pres... more

Some very clear themes are already emerging from President Donald Trump’s executive orders... more

Donald Trump becomes president again on Monday, and as Joe Biden leaves the White House, w... more

While Donald J Trump was virtually fuming at his sentencing hearing in Judge Juan Merchan’... more

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.* There is a cluster-you-know-what of const... more

Happy (?) New Year. Amicus is gingerly stepping into 2025 and into the coming onslaught of... more

Maybe the court won’t listen to your complaints and questions - but we will. As a parting ... more

It wasn’t a great week for speaking truth to power. ABC’s decision to settle Donald Trump’... more

Last week, we examined the deeply worrying prospect of Kash Patel, FBI director. This week... more

What do people inside the Department of Justice think about their once-colleague and possi... more

When it comes to gender affirming care for teenagers, parents’ rights no longer matter. Do... more

If you had forgotten the chaos of Trump 1.0, the frenzied first two weeks of transition to... more

Trump’s announcement of Matt Gaetz as his pick to head the Justice Department was met with... more

We are, most of us, still very much in the post-election fog. It’s early days and while th... more

In this extra episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern wade through the im... more

This week’s show is unapologetically long, deep, and hopeful. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by... more

It’s easy to dismiss nativist rhetoric as mere Trumpy “locker room talk.” But when it come... more

You’re nervous. We’re nervous. As we stop for gas with almost two weeks to go before Novem... more

“Prosecutors elicited perjury and a man's gonna go to his death. We can't allow that to ha... more

Democracy had a pretty rough ride at the Supreme Court last term. Presidents have criminal... more

State Supreme Courts are vital to the functioning of American democracy. They are also whe... more

In this week's Amicus, Mark Joseph Stern steps in for Dahlia Lithwick to preview the upcom... more