Amicus

SPECIAL: Trump Guilty on All 34 Counts

A New York City jury voted to convict former President Donald J. Trump of falsifying records to cover up the story of an affair with a porn star that threatened his chances in the 2016 presidential election.

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After six weeks of arguments and testimony and a little under 12 hours of deliberation, a Manhattan jury voted to convict former President Donald Trump of 34 felony counts in his hush money trial. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Slate’s jurisprudence editor Jeremy Stahl, who was in court for the historic guilty verdict and has followed the case over the past six weeks.

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Cover of Dahlia Lithwick's book.
Courtesy of Penguin-Random House

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation’s foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump’s presidency—and won.

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