{"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 - Preview: Trump Can Fire (Almost) Anyone Now","slug":"amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts-preview-trump-can-fire-almost-anyone-now","published_at":"2026-06-29T20:12:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slate-news-494234/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts-preview-trump-can-fire-almost-anyone-now","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/6a42cfeec2fe1c7f49d14455","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/695ea2381c1db1c5bdf7c59b/a/slatenews-podcasts/e/6a42cfeec2fe1c7f49d14455/media.mp3","summary":"The end is nigh! Or, the end of this Supreme Court term is nigh, at least.   On the second to last day of this term, the court’s right wingers delivered a sweeping ruling that will reshape the federal government for years to come. In Trump v. Slaughter , the conservative supermajority voted 6-3 to allow the president to fire members of independent regulatory agencies—overturning Humphrey's Executor , a 91-year-old unanimous precedent—and handing Trump effective control over agencies that regulate consumer protection, nuclear energy, union activity, mine safety, and more. But the Roberts majority weren’t quite ready to hand the nation’s credit card (and their investment portfolios) over to the mad king, and so the Federal Reserve got a carve-out in a separate 5-4 ruling in Trump v. Cook . How did they reach these wildly different conclusions in such closely related cases? Justice Roberts offered a barely argued rationale, but who needs a rationale if your red lines are painted in a crimson of pure cynicism? The court also handed down a significant Fourth Amendment ruling on geofence warrants , with Justice Kagan writing for a 6-3 majority that such warrants constitute a \"search\" under the Fourth Amendment.  And in Watson v. Republican National Committee , the court upheld state laws allowing mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they arrive shortly after. But the squeaker of a 5-4 majority was deeply alarming in a case that played to some of the justices’ fox-brained ideas about election fraud. Justice Alito and his fellow dissenters appear to have signed onto the wholly unsupported view that Democrat wins are always suspect, and the only way to restore trust in voting is to restrict voting. As Rick Hasen writes for Slate, we won’t b…","meta_description":"The end is nigh! Or, the end of this Supreme Court term is nigh, at least. On the second to last day of this term, the court’s right wingers d…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":527,"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-preview-trump-can-fire-almost-anyone-now/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-preview-trump-can-fire-almost-anyone-now.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}