Slate Crime and Justice

About Slate Crime and Justice

For two and a half years, Emily Bazelon (https://slate.com/author/emily-bazelon) has been following people through a special court in New York designed to be a speedy machine for the harsh punishment of illegal gun possession. Along the way, a strange thing happened—the politics outside the courtroom started to change when a new generation of activists and insiders began challenging the old system the gun court was part of. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Slate Podcasts

Category

history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

10 Apr 2019

Latest episode

13 May 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 482 episodes have a transcript.

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   13 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Announcing Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Gorsuch

   Host Susan Matthews interviews guests about Neil Gorsuch's journey from conservative youth to unpredictable Supreme Court justice.

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   5 Jan 2026

   What Next | The Jan 6ers: Where Are They Now?

   The investigation into the 2021 attack on the Capitol was the largest in FBI history. Then Trump came back into office—and started undoing it. Guest: Ryan Reilly, reporter covering the Justice Department and federal law enforcement for NBC News, author of Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System. 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 Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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   3 Jan 2026

   Amicus | The Fast Track To Autocracy

   In a special new year retrospective, Amicus host Dahlia Lithwick revisits an important episode from early 2025. Back at the beginning of February, Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International affairs at Princeton University, pointed to  the speed and viciousness of the very opening legal gambits in Trump 2.0 as evidence that America had already switched over to the fast track for autocracy on January 20th, 2025. An expert in the law of autocracy, Scheppele has seen firsthand what happened to constitutional courts, the media, the academy and the democratic norms that protected them in Russia and Hungary. In this interview, Scheppelle explains how Trump’s executive orders on everything from government funding to transgender people in the military reveal a familiar global playbook that has chillingly familiar endpoints. Want more Amicus? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes with exclusive legal analysis. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Amicus show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inside a recent episode

Announcing Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Gorsuch

Published 13 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Madden filed a claim against his employer. After some legal back and forth, the Department of Labor eventually ruled in his favor. They said his employer had been wrong to fire him. That's because truckers are protected in dangerous circumstances like this one. But the trucking company appealed. So the case kept going through the courts for seven years. Judge after judge kept ruling in Madden's favor. Except for one. That judge was Neil Gorsuch. Neil Gorsuch ruled against Madden in 2016. At the time, he was a judge on the Tenth Circuit, one of the federal appeals courts one step below the Supreme Court. […]

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• Steve Vladeck
• Alexandra Paul
• Alleen Brown

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