By The People | Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Long before the Supreme Court handed down the landmark Obergefell ruling on equal marriage in 2015, activists were canvassing door-to-door,...
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By the People | For the Children
In 1867, an 8-year-old girl named Elizabeth Turner became the epicenter of a legal battle that would help define what freedom really meant a...
By the People | Who Owns the Constitution?
For the better part of two centuries of U.S. history, the American people understood that they—and not the Supreme Court—were the final arbi...
The Term the Court Stopped Pretending
The Supreme Court just wrapped one of its most consequential terms in decades—and Amicus brought together three heavyweight legal experts to...
Bad History Will Kill America
The Supreme Court just wrapped the term with a blitz of extremely consequential decisions, and the smoke hasn’t cleared yet. (In fact, it’s...
A Constitutional Travesty Narrowly Avoided
It was a weird and wild ride as the Supreme Court handed down the last decisions of the term that started all the way back in October of 202...
Preview: Trump Can Fire (Almost) Anyone Now
The end is nigh! Or, the end of this Supreme Court term is nigh, at least. On the second to last day of this term, the court’s right wingers...
The Roberts Court Shows Its True Colors
Donald Trump ran for office threatening to use mass deportations, closed borders, and emergency wartime powers to “clean up” American immigr...
Preview: All Gas, No Brakes for this 6-3 Court
In this exclusive Opinionpalooza extra, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern take stock of today’s truly horrendous decisions handed down b...
Guns, Weed, and the Forgotten Framers
The Supreme Court handed down a unanimous ruling this week in United States v. Hemani , holding that a marijuana user cannot be stripped of...
A Huge Shift is Underway at SCOTUS
The Second Reconstruction is being dismantled piece by piece, and this past month has seen that project attain terminal velocity. On this we...
Concrete Plans to Restore Law, after Trump
One of the challenges of modern legal journalism is recalling that case law, doctrine, and Supreme Court decisions aren’t a complete picture...
Preview: A Shattering Blow to Fair Elections
The Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed justices seem to be in a big rush to dismantle voting rights for non-white people. On Tuesday night...
The Myth of John Roberts vs. Donald Trump
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, Slate’s dynamic legal duo, preview the final weeks of the Supreme Court term. It’s a “three-ring circ...
Trump’s Slush Fund Is Even Worse Than You Thought
Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" settlement fund has stunned legal experts—not just because it's corrupt, but because of how...
Return of the Abortion Pill Wars
This week on Amicus, hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern break down a whirlwind stretch of reproductive rights legal battles, from t...
The “Civility” Problem for Judges
Over the last few years, there’s been an undeniable uptick in threats against American judges and their families: they’ve been doxxed, swatt...
Racism’s Over and Seashells Can Be Deadly
Dahlia Lithwick reviews what has been an “exceptionally bad week” for American democracy. Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade explains why...
Preview: The Worst Voting Rights Decision Since Jim Crow
On Wednesday, Justice Samuel Alito delivered the latest, probably lethal blow in the Supreme Court’s decades-long campaign against multi-rac...
MAGA Media Law 101
As journalists, a-listers, and some of the most vociferous critics of journalism from the Trump administration gather for the White House Co...