Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Preview: All Gas, No Brakes for this 6-3 Court
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🗓️ 25 June 2026
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In this exclusive Opinionpalooza extra, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern take stock of today’s truly horrendous decisions handed down by a right-wing Supreme Court supermajority that’s marching in perfect lockstep on immigration, gun rights, and almost everything else. Dahlia and Mark sort through the brutalizing, even lethal implications for asylum seekers and more than 1 million recipients of temporary protected status, or TPS. Later: Why Justice Alito’s rejoinder to Justice Sotomayor’s dissent wasn’t just a crappy birthday present, but also the latest breach of decorum at the high court.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, and welcome to a jam-packed opinion-paced |
| 0:11.0 | Extra edition of Amicus. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 0:14.1 | This pop-up episode is exclusive to our Slate Plus members. |
| 0:18.6 | Go to slate.com slash amicusplus to join. |
| 0:22.6 | We're also sharing a part of this conversation with our audiences on YouTube and on our main |
| 0:27.9 | amicus channels wherever you usually find us. |
| 0:31.4 | So welcome to all of you. |
| 0:33.5 | And welcome to you, my co-host, Mark Joseph Stern. |
| 0:37.2 | Mark is here to take stock of what has been a truly horrendous run of decisions this week |
| 0:43.2 | from the Supreme Court's increasingly extreme right wing. |
| 0:49.3 | We keep being told that they're just super neutral umpires with excellent resumes, um, but maybe not so much this |
| 0:59.3 | week. Hi, Mark. Hi, Mark. Oh, oh, no. Dahlia, I can't even do jokes this week. I mean, |
| 1:05.2 | the number of six, three blowouts that this court is delivering us is absolutely brutal. There's no breather in |
| 1:13.7 | between. It's just one after the other. I think our stomachs dropped when we heard that Alito |
| 1:19.1 | was going to have three opinions in a row. That's the worst news you could possibly hear. |
| 1:24.5 | And indeed, they were three absolutely atrocious opinions that will have |
| 1:27.8 | horrific and indeed lethal consequences for many people. So it's bad. And I guess the point I want to make |
| 1:35.1 | now is that if and when the Supreme Court does uphold birthright citizenship next week and then |
| 1:41.5 | sends us all out for the 4th of July with a big patriotic message. |
| 1:45.2 | Like, don't fall for John Roberts' PR campaign and forget everything that happened this |
| 1:50.6 | week just because six or seven justices can read the first sentence of the 14th Amendment. |
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