Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Capitulation Nation

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Capitulation Nation

Published: September 12, 2026

Duration: 54:58

Capitulation under Trump 2.0 has been devastating to the rule of law. To review a couple of lowlights: One of the nation’s leading lawyers, Brad Karp, cut a deal with Donald Trump in the first days of the bully-in-chief’s second administration that turned out to constitute five flabby bullet points on an unsigned piece of paper. Chief Justice John Roberts is pretending the president is a generic Republican. 

Dahlia Lithwick talks to Jacob Weisberg about his new book, Profiles in Cowardice, which examines the flawed individuals leading institutions that were meant to hold the line in Trump...