42: Hot Shadow Docket Summer with Leah Litman

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr and Leah Littman delve into the current state of the Supreme Court, focusing on the recent Scrimetti decision and its implications for LGBTQ rights. They discuss the ideological trends within the court, the role of originalism in judicial decisions, and the complexities surrounding Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The conversation also highlights the significance of the shadow docket and the importance of public engagement in advocating for judicial change.

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0:00.0	This is a perfect time for us to talk about what this will be, and that is hot shadow docket summer.
0:08.5	I'm Kimberly Atkins Store, and welcome to Justice by Design, where we talk about solutions and how to make our society a better one.
0:19.5	And one of the biggest things that we need in order to have a just
0:24.1	and fair functioning society is a judicial system that works. And today we're going to be
0:31.9	discussing just how well the Supreme Court is working. And aside from my wonderful sisters-in-law co-hosts,
0:41.6	I can't think of anybody else that would be better to talk to this with than Leah Lippman,
0:48.4	who is a professor at the University of Michigan School of Law, as well as author of the new book Lawless, How the Supreme Court
0:56.3	runs on conservative grievance, French theories, and bad vibes, which is out and it's wonderful.
1:05.6	I highly recommend everybody read it. Just, I mean, come for the the movie references alone but there's a lot more
1:13.2	really really good stuff lea thank you so much for joining me today thank you so much for having me
1:19.1	i took the comparison to your co-hosts the sisters-in-law as the highest compliment it was intended
1:24.4	to ask well you know i we often get asked a lot like when are you guys doing a
1:29.0	crossover and it's like you know i see you all in various places but we need to make it happen i know
1:35.9	there are many hosts on both shows and so a seven person co-hosted episode might be a little
1:43.2	unwieldy and yet still wonderful I'd imagine and you know it's
1:47.0	not like we're any of us are that talkative at all either right so yeah that would work seamlessly
1:52.5	but thank you for joining me today with all my guests I always asked them to give them
1:56.8	give themselves a quick 30 second introduction to our, any who may not know who you are.
2:02.6	I can't believe that there are many. But tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do there
2:08.4	at the University of Michigan. I am a midwesterner at heart who came back to the University of
2:14.9	Michigan Law School where I graduated from to teach.
2:17.8	And I focused on constitutional law and the federal courts.
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