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Mark Joseph Stern

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Aug 16, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Mark Joseph Stern

    Dear (Juris)Prudence: Who Cooks Up the Supreme Court’s BS Originalist Ideas, Anyway? (opens the original)

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    Last week’s episode of Amicus included a mailbag special in which Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern answered listeners’ burning questions about the law. Amicus listeners have a lot of smart questions, so we’re running an occasional “Dear (Juris)Prudence” series in which we share your questions and Mark and Dahlia’s answers. Write to amicus@slate.com to pose a question to Dahlia and Mark. This transcript has been edited and condensed for clarity. Dear (Juris)Prudence, Recently, you’ve critici

  2. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Mark Joseph Stern

    Dear (Juris)Prudence: How Can Congress Stop Trump From Sabotaging the Next Democratic President? (opens the original)

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    Last week’s episode of Amicus included a mailbag special in which Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern answered listeners’ burning questions about the law. Amicus listeners have a lot of smart questions, so we’re running an occasional “Dear (Juris)Prudence” series in which we share your questions and Mark and Dahlia’s answers. Write to amicus@slate.com to pose a question to Dahlia and Mark. This transcript has been edited and condensed for clarity. Considering the essential need of maintaining

  3. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Mark Joseph Stern

    Conservatives Perfected the Ideal Legal Tactic. It’s Time for Liberals to Use It. (opens the original)

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    This is part of Amicus and Slate’s “By the People” series, which explores how the American people can reclaim the Constitution—and the law—from this monarchical Supreme Court. In 1991, former Chief Justice Warren Burger renounced the then-nascent push to reinterpret the Second Amendment as an individual right to bear arms. Appearing on PBS NewsHour, the conservative jurist condemned this campaign as “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American people by special

  4. Article · Jul 17, 2026 · Mark Joseph Stern

    A Sitting Judge Just Delivered the Most Scathing Critique of This Supreme Court Term (opens the original)

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    Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The Supreme Court has veered so far off track that even the harshest language can feel inadequate to capture the damage wrought by its most recent term. Singling out individual decisions may inadvertently obscure the broader trends that, taken together, amount to a wholesale assault on democratic self-government. That is what makes Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins

  5. Article · Jul 15, 2026 · Mark Joseph Stern

    Dear Jurisprudence: Did the Progressive Justices Really Sell Out Trans Athletes? (opens the original)

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    Sign up for Executive Dysfunction, a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story each week about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing back. You’ll also receive updates on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. This week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus is another entry in our occasional “Dear (Juris)Prudence” series, in which we invite listeners to ask their burning questions about the law and answer them as best we can. Write to amicus@slate.com to pose a qu

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