Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · Slate Podcasts
The Fast Track To Autocracy
January 3, 2026·56 min·5 clips
Autocracy expert reveals how inflammatory rhetoric disguises the real work of removing all constraints on presidential power.
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A measured legal warning about how law can be made to serve lawlessness.
Amicus is strongest when it turns a legal conversation into something immediate and difficult to brush aside. The episode connects the post-Jan.
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