{"podcast":{"title":"Slate News","slug":"slate-news-494234","podcast_index_feed_id":494234,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/696fee067668cfdea3a2870a","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/696fee067668cfdea3a2870a/cover-1ac7369a-6073-451d-b9a6-5326c942d419.jpg","author":"Slate Podcasts","episode_count":4897,"summary":"After the Trump administration launched a massive Immigrations and Customs Enforcement operation in Minnesota, protesters gathered to defend immigrant neighbors. Renee Nicole Good, a mother of a six year old, showed up with her wife and dog to film altercations between officers and community members. What happened next changed everything. Guest: Jon Collins, senior reporter on the Minnesota Public Radio News race, class and communities team. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T06:20:34.669540+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slate-news-494234"},"episode":{"title":"Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - By the People | Who Owns the Constitution?","slug":"amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts-by-the-people-who-owns-the-constitution","published_at":"2026-07-18T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slate-news-494234/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts-by-the-people-who-owns-the-constitution","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slate-news-494234","url":"https://shows.acast.com/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/episodes/6a5a948e7a878a33808b7abe","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/695ea2381c1db1c5bdf7c59b/a/slatenews-podcasts/e/6a5a948e7a878a33808b7abe/media.mp3","summary":"For the better part of two centuries of U.S. history, the American people understood that they—and not the Supreme Court—were the final arbiters of the Constitution. But in recent decades, nine unelected justices have claimed that mantle for themselves. Now, with the high court's claim of neutrality and legitimacy crumbling, an urgent question must be answered: Can \"We the People\" restore our power to interpret the Constitution—and if so, how? In the first installment of the series By the People, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern try to find out how and when this notion of judicial supremacy took over, with the help of Larry Kramer, legal scholar and author of The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review. You can read the full package of articles accompanying this series at slate.com/bythepeople The justices publish their opinions a few dozen times a year. Dahlia and Mark share theirs every week. Slate Plus gets you all of it: Amicus ad-free with a weekly bonus segment, and no paywalls anywhere on Slate. Join now. Visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen. You can subscribe directly from the Amicus show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify .  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"For the better part of two centuries of U.S. history, the American people understood that they—and not the Supreme Court—were the final arbiters of the Co…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2474,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/slate-news-494234/episodes/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts-by-the-people-who-owns-the-constitution/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slate-news-494234/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts-by-the-people-who-owns-the-constitution.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}