2 weeks Ago By Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern
Amicus Playing Chicken With the Constitution Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are revving up for a face off between the president and the courts. Listen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Apple Podcasts Spotify TuneIn Pocket Casts RSS Feed For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ . Please enable javascript to get your Slate Plus feeds.
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Episode Notes 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 toward an internal conflict that the federal judiciary would very much prefer to avoid, but just keeps getting more unavoidable. On this week’s Amicus podcast, Mark Joseph Stern is joined by Leah Litman for the first half of the show. They discuss how, faced with a Trump administration that claims the ability to rewrite the Constitution on the fly, denies the ability to follow court orders, and dangles the possibility of extending its lawlessness to renditioning American citizens to a foreign prison, the federal judiciary this week did what the Supreme Court failed to do last week: explicitly call out the regime’s lawless actions.
Aptly, Leah’s new book, Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes , comes out on May 13 and they discuss how the highest court’s enabling of Trump and MAGA more broadly has brought us to the constitutional precipice. Next: In the six months since the re-election of Donald Trump, abortion and reproductive rights have been squished way below the fold, news-wise, obscured by an ever-mounting pile of terrifying headlines. But outside of the public glare, the legal landscape of reproductive rights has been shifting.
Dahlia Lithwick talks to Mary Ziegler about her book Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction . Together, they examine how notions of fetal and embryonic personhood are fueling punitive actions against women, physicians, and those who provide or seek healthcare related to reproduction. This Content is Available for Slate Plus members only Bonus Episode Bonus: SCOTUS Wants You To Stop Oppressing Conservatives with Your Big Gay Energy A trio of cases this term give the high court’s conservatives ample opportunity to exorcize their grievance demons.
Donald Trump Immigration Supreme Court Stephen Miller About the Show A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America. Hosts Dahlia Lithwick writes about the courts and the law for Slate and hosts the podcast Amicus . Mark Joseph Stern is a Slate senior writer.
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