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Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick discussed her podcast “Amicus” and previews the new Supreme Court term.

The 43rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes honored literary works in several categories including biography and current events. This event took place during the 2023 Los Angeles Times Fes…

Authors Becca Andrews (No Choice), Dahlia Lithwick (Lady Justice) and Joshua Prager (The Family Roe) discussed the politics of reproduction. This event was part of the 2023 Tucson Festival o…

New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen provided her take on life in the U.S. since the election of President Trump. This event was hosted by Politics and Prose bookstore.

John Grisham accepted the inaugural Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for the way his novel The Confession exemplifies the role of lawyers in society. After accepting the award the author s…

In 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to be the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Panelists including author Evan Thomas and one of O’Connor’s sons discusse…

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, author of What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal, took part in a panel discussion in which she discussed her experiences of sexual assaults throughout …

Former Virginia Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe recounted events that led up to the tragedy in Charlottesville following the Unite the Right rally in 2017. He was interviewed by Slate ed…

Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) delivered the keynote address at the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy’s 2019 convention. She criticized Republicans for packing the federal courts…

This portion of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) membership conference included a panel discussion focusing on the rule of law. Speakers included the ACLU’s David Cole, former White…

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer talked about his book, The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities, about the challenges facing the judiciary and the application …

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the question: “WillHillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account during her time as secretary of state affect her possible 2016 president…

Supreme Court reporters, former law clerks, and scholars talked about increasing transparency in the U.S. Supreme Court. They focused on ways the Court could modernize, including cameras in …

Dahlia Lithwick was interviewed by phone about the Supreme Court decision on campaign finance, McCutcheon v FEC, which struck down overall limits on campaign contributions.

Dahlia Lithwick reviewed the previous day’s Supreme Court oral argument in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores. The case involves the provision of the Affordable Care Act that mandates contracept…

Dahlia Lithwick and Tony Mauro previewed the second day of Supreme Court oral arguments on the 2010 health care law, and they responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. They…

Noah Feldman profiles the life and legal contributions of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Supreme Court appointees Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Robert Jackson, and William Douglas. The four…

Dahlia Lithwick talked about her Slate.com opinion piece, “Empty Chambers: Why the Judicial Vacancy Crisis Matters.” She asserts that the American public is not adequately concerned enough w…

Dahlia Lithwick talked by phone from Charlottesville, Virginia, about the news report that the White House is working behind the scenes to get ready for the possibility that two Supreme Cour…

The panelists talked about recent noteworthy U.S. Supreme Court cases that they had covered for their respective media outlets. They all contributed to the book co-edited by Timothy Johnson,…