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My book on the Supreme Court, LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes is now going to be out in MAY 2025 (May 13).
And you can preorder NOW: simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/…
Leah Litman
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Leah Litman
@LeahLitman
Prof. @Umichlaw. Con law & fed courts. Cohost @StrictScrutiny_ co-founder @womenknowlaw. LAWLESS: Out May 13!!
Joined July 2008
- Justice Kagan to the lawyer challenging affirmative action: All over your brief is the claim that "it just doesn't matter if our institutions look like America ... uh... DOESN'T IT???"
- Justice Jackson's question about how the anti-affirmative action position allows some family backgrounds & histories to be valued (white families with legacies) but not others (black families who experienced racial discrimination and/or were enslaved) is 🔥🔥🔥. and so on point.
- this is a WILD speech. speaking negatively about the Justices interpersonal relationships; saying the court was good before Chief Justice was appointed; calling left protests “temper tantrums”; speaking approvingly of Garland blockade….
- yesterday the faculty voted in favor of granting me tenure (!!!!!!)….. so now I get to wear what I want to work. 😈🧣😈🧣 (sweater a gift from @danieltdeacon &🧣a gift from some of the students who make this job so amazing.) I am SO excited, grateful, & … PHEW!
- I look forward to media coverage about how the GOP calls to “defund federal law enforcement” are alienating voters.
- in general I don't respond to trolls. but the idea that "well of course the court won't overturn griswold (the right to contraception) because some justices said it was settled in their confirmation hearings" is absurd on its face.
- "I THOUGHT PART OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN IS THAT OUR INSTITUTIONS SHOULD REFLECT WHO WE ARE AS A PEOPLE"
- GET HIM, GIRL!!! "'Judges create legitimacy problems for themselves ... when they instead stray into places where it looks like they’re an extension of the political process or when they’re imposing their own personal preferences,' Kagan said." msn.com/en-us/news/pol…
- Replying to @LeahLitmana chilling line from the joint dissent -- Kagan, Breyer, & Sotomayor do not believe this Court will stop with Roe.
- Final opinion is FEC v. Ted Cruz, in which (surprise!), the Supreme Court strikes down another campaign finance regulation (a federal law prohibiting campaigns from using more than $250,000 of post-election day funds to repay a candidate’s personal loans) supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf…
