Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · Slate Podcasts
This Will Be Trump’s Best Term at the Supreme Court Yet
October 4, 2025·1 hr·5 clips
Ian Milhiser reveals why the Supreme Court's shadow docket is a miserable, grueling slog for justices producing incoherent law.
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A term preview that treats doctrine as something with real consequences, not just courtroom theater.
Amicus opens the Supreme Court's October 2025 term by making a plain point: the court never really goes off duty. It moves from the shadow docket, where emergency orders kept coming through the summer, to the merits cases now landing at One First Street, and keeps asking what…
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