Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · Slate Podcasts

“No Right Is Safe”

June 28, 2025·50 min·4 clips
The Supreme Court waited four years to help Biden, then leapt to relieve Trump after just five months.
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern analyze the devastating end of the Supreme Court term, focusing on decisions that erode nationwide injunctions, threaten birthright citizenship, ban LGBTQ books in schools, and restrict healthcare access. They argue the court is empowering Trump's presidency while dismantling judicial checks and democratic safeguards.

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A sharp, uneasy look at how the Court is narrowing district court power.

Amicus uses the Supreme Court's end-of-term to ask a blunt question: what happens when the Roberts Court keeps cutting back district court power?

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You want a sharp read on a bad Supreme Court end of term and why it leaves district courts looking weaker.

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