Friday, July 11, 2025

Lawless, Leah Litman

 

Lawless:  How the supreme court runs on conservative grievance, fringe theories, and bad vibes by Leah Litman

Started: July 7, 2025
Completed: July 11, 2025
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: Lots of political reviews

Review:

It seems like this is an effort to make the book more approachable, but there are a lot of references to the Barbie movie, the Mean Girls movie, Game of Thrones, Arrested Development, and American Psycho.  I found these largely distracting and rarely applicable beyond the surface level.  On the other hand, I've gotten rather well versed in how the Supreme Court works and didn't really need analogies in order to see where things were headed.  More important to me, was the collection of information that pointed the entire activity of the court to grievance.  I can easily see Justice Kavanaugh acting on the basis of grievance.  As Kavanaugh said in his own testimony, "This is a circus...what goes around comes around..."

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