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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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(This is also why I’m less online)

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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 ….!?!?!?

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

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And floating this in response to the possibility that 5 Justices seemed like they were going to reject the gov't position - so trying to find a narrower ground for them to do so

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I read her as floating the "compromise" position we talked about at the end of the episode - preserving an option for the gov't to argue that interfering w/J6 did obstruct an official proceeding with records (the electoral certificates, or in the case of Trump, aiding false slate of electors)

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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...

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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...

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And Jennifer Bendery at Huffington Post chasing down why it is just that - a smear campaign based in Islamophobia - the attacks on criticisms of Mangi are not grounded in reality. www.huffpost.com/entry/adeel-...

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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...

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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

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That’s bc Co was trying to content moderate the co 🙃

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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-...

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Their space has two guest spots and since I’m in CA it made sense for me to stay put

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

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

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someone pls send me all the incel tweets

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

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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).

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

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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!

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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...

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

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Is a lying traitor who can’t drive (see the 1989 vault tracks and a few others!)

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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!

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On this episode: oral arguments on presidential immunity, the 5th Circuit on redistricting (& why localities can use illegal maps), a judge on why using the word 'diversity' might be evidence of discrimination, and the Senator from Cancun's unhinged questioning of a Muslim-American judicial nominee

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IT’S GREAT TO BE A MICHIGAN WOLVERINE

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when you’re so excited but also so scared

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