{"podcast":{"title":"Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts","slug":"amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts-512420","podcast_index_feed_id":512420,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/695ea2381c1db1c5bdf7c59b","website_url":"https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/695ea2381c1db1c5bdf7c59b/1778870793592-6ede6217-f697-4e96-9d91-bb8ee0c06653.jpeg","author":"Slate Audio","episode_count":465,"summary":"A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America. Get more Amicus with Slate Plus. Join to unlock weekly bonus episodes with exclusive legal analysis—plus ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Amicus show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts-512420"},"episode":{"title":"Trump’s Tariffs Overturned","slug":"trump-s-tariffs-overturned","published_at":"2026-02-21T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts-512420/trump-s-tariffs-overturned","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts-512420","url":"https://shows.acast.com/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/episodes/6998d40cf863de959a8802ef","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/695ea2381c1db1c5bdf7c59b/e/6998d40cf863de959a8802ef/media.mp3","summary":"The Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Friday, ruling 6–3 that they vastly exceed anything federal law allows a President to do. It was a massive loss for a signature component of Trump’s economic agenda, and a coalition of liberals and conservatives on the court agreed that the statute invoked to impose these tariffs was never intended to be wielded in this fashion. The 6 disagreed emphatically as to the reasoning. The dissenters were Big Mad. On this week’s Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern unpack the rationale behind the decision, and the implications for those seeking a remedy. And they ask what to make of this massive loss from a court that has yet to truly tell this President “no.”   Then, the press clause of the First Amendment, a once-cherished constitutional right, has fallen victim to neglect and sabotage in recent years, taking a back seat to the more vaunted love affair with individual “free speech.” But, as recent developments—including the arrest of journalist Don Lemon and the heavy-handed interview-spiking “guidance” of late night host Stephen Colbert—illustrate, the freedom of the press is no slam-dunk when it comes to saving democracy in Trump’s America. Dahlia speaks with First Amendment scholars Sonja West (University of Georgia) and RonNell Andersen Jones (University of Utah) about the health of the press clause and the themes in their book, The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times . They trace the ways in which the framers viewed press freedom as a core, structural “bulwark of liberty,” and why the Supreme Court has increasingly treated it as a neglected companion to free speech rights; leaving weakened and fragile protections for news gathering. The conversation co…","meta_description":"The Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Friday, ruling 6–3 that they vastly exceed anything federal law allows a President to do.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4506,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts-512420/episodes/trump-s-tariffs-overturned/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts-512420/trump-s-tariffs-overturned.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}