Concrete Plans to Restore Law, after Trump

Concrete Plans to Restore Law, after Trump

From Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts by Slate Podcasts

June 6, 2026 · 1h 4m

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The episode discusses the implications of recent Supreme Court decisions on voting rights and features interviews with key legal figures.

One of the challenges of modern legal journalism is recalling that case law, doctrine, and Supreme Court decisions aren’t a complete picture, without including the lived realities of the people whose lives and communities are often turned upside down by changes in the law. On Tuesday night, the Supreme Court’s far-right flank vastly expanded its holding in Louisiana v. Callais to make it harder, if not impossible, to challenge racist voting maps designed to suppress Black votes. The shadow-docket decision misrepresented its own holding in Callais and discarded a case it had already decided. With the conservative supermajority tossing a lower-court panel’s finding in Allen v. Milligan and further erasing voting rights for Black Americans across the country, Amicus revisits our 2022 conversation with Evan Milligan, the named plaintiff, at the time the case first came to the high court. Milligan explained what’s at stake for the very real people living in gerrymandered districts in Alabama’s Black Belt region; a gerrymander blessed this week that was forbidden just three years ago. Later, Dahlia Lithwick talks with Andrew Weissmann , an MS NOW legal analyst, NYU law professor…

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Host: Dahlia Lithwick

Guests: Evan Milligan, Andrew Weissmann

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Organizations: Supreme Court, DOJ, MS NOW, NYU, Slate Podcasts

Places: Alabama

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