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George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)

S2 Ep117: Why The Supreme Court Is Broken (w/ Leah Litman)

George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Longwell is joined by Leah Litman, professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School and co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast, to discuss the Supreme Court's troubling shift toward partisanship, Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s ideological battles, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s decision to openly criticize the Court’s Trump-friendly rulings. Can anything fix the Supreme Court? Litman shares solutions—and why she thinks it’s past time to get angry.

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1:06.4

Hello, everyone, and welcome to George Conway, explains it all to Sarah. I'm'm Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bullwork. And because I'm not a lawyer and because George is on vacation this week, I've asked Leah Lippman to join me on the pod. And I'm so glad she's here. Hey, Leah. I am so excited to be here. First time, long time, et cetera, et cetera. Et cetera.

1:31.8

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1:35.8

I'm going to talk a little bit why I think people should read this, even if you are not somebody who is deep in the weeds on all of the legal stuff, because you do one of the

1:41.1

things that I think is the most important, which is at the end of your book, you offer actual things for people to go do, some calls to action, which is the number one question I get from people who are in the bulwark universe.

1:53.6

What can I do? How can I help? So we're going to get into that.

1:56.4

For those of you who don't know, Leah's a law professor at the University of Michigan Law School, co-host of the strict scrutiny podcast, which is a favorite over here from our legal production team

2:06.9

and is also with our friends at Crooked.

2:10.3

She's also the author of a new book, Lawless.

2:12.3

I'm going to hold it up again, how the Supreme Court runs on conservative grievance,

2:16.1

fringe theories, and bad vibes.

2:18.6

Welcome to this podcast. It's so great to be here. So today, I want to do a big picture

2:26.4

overview of what's happened at the Supreme Court this term, because George and I sort of get into

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