Leah Litman

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Michigan Law Prof. (constitutional law & federal courts)
Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast (SCOTUS - Crooked Media)
❤️: my dog, Taylor Swift, reality TV

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Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/o...

Opinion | Something’s Rotten About the Justices Taking So Long on Trump’s Immunity Casewww.nytimes.com It shouldn’t take so long for the justices to consider an outlandish claim.

I broke my elbow (pretty badly), and some related injuries mean I can’t see Taylor Swift in Europe (I had tickets). So if you find yourself with extra tickets to any of the fall US shows (particularly Indy), please keep me in mind ….!?!?!?

Me in the NYT on the Supreme Court’s inexcusable delay in the Trump immunity case - which makes a pre-election verdict less and less likely www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/o...

Opinion | Something’s Rotten About the Justices Taking So Long on Trump’s Immunity Casewww.nytimes.com It shouldn’t take so long for the justices to consider an outlandish claim.

Stevie’s daycare is running a draft for the Natl Woofpaw League and I thought some ppl might want to see a pic

Now out in the Yale Law Journal Forum: Kate Shaw & I show how the methods SCOTUS used to evaluate the ISLT in Moore v Harper also require rejecting the Rehnquist-Kavanaugh twist on ISLT. Which has little basis in history/tradition, federalism, or democracy. www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-bo...

The “Bounds” of Moore: Pluralism and State Judicial Reviewwww.yalelawjournal.org This Essay examines a potential version of the “independent state legislature theory” (ISLT) that, were it adopted, could require states to adopt particular interpretive methods for state laws regardi...

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NEW: Steve Vladeck joins to discuss what SCOTUS & CA5 are doing w/TX on immigration (ensuring avoidable chaos & hardship) plus we recap last weeks cases, including Sam Alito fantasizing about having the SCOTUS press office scream at media he doesn’t like crooked.com/podcast/texa...

Texas, Immigration, and Easily Avoidable Chaos | Crooked Mediacrooked.com

~Quite~ the post from David Lat: davidlat.substack.com/p/clerking-f...

Please read this important Lydia Polgreen NYT piece on the smear campaign against Adeel Mangi, who's nominated to CA3 (and would be the first Muslim A3 appellate judge): www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/o...

Opinion | The Islamophobic Smear Campaign Dividing Democratswww.nytimes.com Adeel Mangi was a judicial shoo-in for Biden. Will Democrats defend him?

chefs kiss www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The Supreme Court Decides This Year’s Best Picture Winnerwww.mcsweeneys.net The nine justices of the United States Supreme Court sit in their conference room around a grand table fashioned out of old-growth mahogany trees s...

tfw u get to go to the beach

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NOW OUT: the episode on the disqualification opinion — where SCOTUS says Trump goes on the ballot unless Congress says otherwise crooked.com/podcast/scot...

SCOTUS Restores Trump to the Colorado Ballot, Unanimously (Kind Of) | Crooked Mediacrooked.com

SCOTUS unanimously concludes CO can’t DQ Trump. But a good concurring opinion - in the judgment (they didn’t join the per curiam op) — from the Democratic appointees about how SCOTUS decided more than necessary and imposed limits on *federal actors* ability to enforce section 3

Per curiam 20 page opinion in disqualification www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

can someone pls send me this lawsuit? pagesix.com/2024/02/29/e...

Raquel Leviss sues Ariana Madix and Tom Sandoval for post-Scandoval...pagesix.com The "Vanderpump Rules" alum is taking legal action against her former co-stars for revenge porn, eavesdropping and invasion of privacy.

never change, sam. never change.

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NEW EPISODE: AL SCT jeopardizes IVF & continues SCOTUS path to allowing govt to control reproductive decisions + SCOTUS continues to act like Regulator in Chief & likely block environmental regs + Sherrilyn Ifill joins us for continuing Ed on the 14th amendment! crooked.com/podcast/the-...

The Alabama Supreme Court Embraces Fetal Personhood | Crooked Mediacrooked.com

bring your dog to the beach (if you can). it will make their day ♥️♥️♥️

ooph www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“what if I told you none of it was accidental?”

Joe Biden enters his Red Era

Y'all.

someone pls send me all the incel tweets

tfw ur ready to watch Taylor swift and root for her bf

I think the Chief Justice is saying how the opinion reversing the CO SCt will be written: states can't disqualify federal officeholders (at least absent congressional permission to do so).

We recorded a bonus episode on the DC Circuit’s presidential immunity decision!

NEW EP: We breakdown the DC Circuit opinion denying immunity (and other things too) to Trump in the election interference case and also talk about what comes next. Tune in! crooked.com/podcast/why-...

Why Did Trump Get Denied Immunity? | Crooked Mediacrooked.com

omfg. the tortured poets department.

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If you listened to yesterday’s Pod Save America you already knew this but tomorrow we’re dropping a special bonus episode with some very special guests so stay tuned!

I was on Pod Save America (as a guest host) to talk about the right’s new obsession with Taylor Swift (!!!) (and other things too). Listen in! crooked.com/podcast/trum...

Trumpworld Takes on Taylor Swift | Crooked Mediacrooked.com

Irin Carmon's moving profile of Cecile Richards's (former president of Planned Parenthood) battle with brain cancer is a must read: www.thecut.com/article/ceci...

Cecile Richards Is Living With Brain Cancerwww.thecut.com The former president of Planned Parenthood is still fighting for abortion access — even while living with brain cancer.

Here's our episode on the big Chevron cases -- about taking away agencies authority to administer statutes and giving it to the federal courts....

NEW EP: We talk about the Supreme Court arguments in the latest cases to challenge to regulation & the administrative state -- the Chevron doctrine. PICTURED: #SCOTUS Justices cheering on the end of regulation & the administrative state. crooked.com/podcast/aita...

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Mondays episode on the Supreme Court’s latest attack on administrative agencies and regulation is gonna be … well, you’re just going to have to wait and hear!