Leah Litman

This is one of those rare circumstances where Congress can easily fix something the Supreme Court has fucked up.

All they need to do is just pass a law, amend 1983, and say, applies to federal officers too.

And that fixes the problem.

Yeah, I'll just snap my fingers.

Or maybe if everyone in the world claps their hands at the same time, a Congress will appear.

I think the federal trial courts have done a really admirable job in generally trying to hold

the president and the administration accountable to the law.

And I think it's no accident that that is why we have also seen the Supreme Court steadily narrowing the power of district courts to issue nationwide injunctions or to issue other forms of relief that would be effective against this administration.

I also think it's no accident that we are seeing this administration put forward even more extreme nominees than they did during the first administration.

The ones who are voting

For them, you know, 90 plus percent of cases, you know, who are some of the people they have appointed to the federal courts in the second term?

Emile Beauvais, you know, the guy who literally came up with the strategy of trying to evade court orders and allegedly reportedly said, we'll just say fuck you to the courts.

That guy.

Exactly.

Lifetime tenure.

The guy who also attended a Trump rally after he became a federal judge.

You know, there are also people that they have put up for the federal district courts who have described themselves as zealots on the issue of fetal personhood.

The idea that the Constitution requires abortion to be illegal nationwide.

So they are slowly transforming the federal courts, particularly the lower federal courts that have proven effective abortion.

At checking this administration.