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John Roberts will not save us — but we might just able to save ourselves

JL;DR SUMMARY Leah Litman's new book, "Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes," critiques the current state of the U.S. Supreme Court, focusing on the conservative majority's influence and method of jurisprudence. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Judicial ReformSupreme CourtAmerican PoliticsConstitutional LawRoe V. WadeVoting RightsLeah LitmanJohn RobertsConservative JurisprudenceJewish Plaintiffs

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Michigan, United States
"Litman is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Michigan, and co-host of the popular weekly legal podcast Strict Scrutiny, which subjects the decisions made by SCOTUS to scathing wit and surgical analysis."
Houston, Texas, United States
"A professor at the University of Houston and the Womens Institute of Houston, Robert Zaretsky is also a culture columnist at the\u00a0Forward."

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