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

Our All-Star SCOTUS End-of-Term Breakfast Table

July 2, 2025·56 min·5 clips
Steve Vladek exposes the Supreme Court's convergence of shadow and merits dockets to restructure judicial power.
Legal experts analyze the Supreme Court's recent term, discussing the convergence of the shadow and merits dockets, hostility toward district courts, and the use of history in rulings. They critique decisions on birthright citizenship, LGBTQ issues, and the court's alignment with Trump's agenda, highlighting a pattern of judicial supremacy and inconsistent doctrine.

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A term-end Court table that finds the story in the gaps between the notes.

Amicus returns to its end-of-term breakfast-table ritual to sort through what the Court left behind. Lithwick and Stern mark the term as ending Friday, June 27th, with five decisions and one case headed back for reargument in the fall term, while also suggesting that the most…

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You get the end-of-term table, the emergency docket, and the parts SCOTUS would rather leave offstage.

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