Leah Litman

You know, I think part of the difficulty is the government is trotting out so many different bases for deporting and expelling people that even if you were carrying around a handy habeas petition challenging one possible basis on which the government might send you to a foreign mega prison, no guarantee that that's the actual ground they would invoke.

You know, I might use all of the adjectives, but I'm not breathing easy just yet, in part because these cases have not made their way up through the appellate courts. And I don't think it's an accident that lower courts are more uniformly ruling against the Trump administration than the appellate courts or Supreme Court. So lower courts, they tend to be a little bit less ideological.

You know, I might use all of the adjectives, but I'm not breathing easy just yet, in part because these cases have not made their way up through the appellate courts. And I don't think it's an accident that lower courts are more uniformly ruling against the Trump administration than the appellate courts or Supreme Court. So lower courts, they tend to be a little bit less ideological.

They're oftentimes appointed with the consent of the home state senators. And so even people appointed by Trump in states with Democratic senators, they're not going to be as cray-cray as the people he's putting on the Supreme Court or the appellate courts.

They're oftentimes appointed with the consent of the home state senators. And so even people appointed by Trump in states with Democratic senators, they're not going to be as cray-cray as the people he's putting on the Supreme Court or the appellate courts.

I hesitate just to say it's unconstitutional because it manages to pack in like at least five different constitutional violations to a pretty short executive order. So, yeah, that one's really wild.

I hesitate just to say it's unconstitutional because it manages to pack in like at least five different constitutional violations to a pretty short executive order. So, yeah, that one's really wild.

So I started thinking about writing the book after the court overruled Roe versus Wade. And it seemed like a moment when more people were paying attention to the court and understanding just how broken the Supreme Court was. You know, from my own perspective, I was pretty nervous and scared about the Supreme Court back in 2011 when I was clerking for the court.

So I started thinking about writing the book after the court overruled Roe versus Wade. And it seemed like a moment when more people were paying attention to the court and understanding just how broken the Supreme Court was. You know, from my own perspective, I was pretty nervous and scared about the Supreme Court back in 2011 when I was clerking for the court.

And they came within one vote of dismantling the entire Affordable Care Act. and health insurance for so many people based on some cockamamie theory that the government might force us to eat broccoli one day. And so I thought people should be more worried about the Supreme Court back then.

And they came within one vote of dismantling the entire Affordable Care Act. and health insurance for so many people based on some cockamamie theory that the government might force us to eat broccoli one day. And so I thought people should be more worried about the Supreme Court back then.

Almost 10 years later, when people were more concerned, I thought I actually want to talk to people about just how bad things have gotten because there will inevitably be a moment when people come to believe that Maybe the Supreme Court isn't actually so bad. And I want them to understand like how the court got us to this moment we are in and just how messed up the court has become.

Almost 10 years later, when people were more concerned, I thought I actually want to talk to people about just how bad things have gotten because there will inevitably be a moment when people come to believe that Maybe the Supreme Court isn't actually so bad. And I want them to understand like how the court got us to this moment we are in and just how messed up the court has become.

Yeah. So Origins, it's really an amalgamation of different grievance stews that they kind of threw in together and then decided to base a political movement around. Because when the political parties were going through this bigger alignment after the civil rights movement, you had the Republican Party decide, well, we want to cater to white Southerners and Blacks. conservative Christians.

Yeah. So Origins, it's really an amalgamation of different grievance stews that they kind of threw in together and then decided to base a political movement around. Because when the political parties were going through this bigger alignment after the civil rights movement, you had the Republican Party decide, well, we want to cater to white Southerners and Blacks. conservative Christians.

And so they were adopting positions that almost by definition were not going to appeal to a majority of the country and in particular groups that were newly included in civic society. And so they kind of leaned into minority rule and having minority rule requires them to control the Supreme Court.

And so they were adopting positions that almost by definition were not going to appeal to a majority of the country and in particular groups that were newly included in civic society. And so they kind of leaned into minority rule and having minority rule requires them to control the Supreme Court.

So they recognize we kind of need the Supreme Court in order to impose our wildly unpopular weirdo views on the rest of the country. And so they went about trying to control the Supreme Court, and they successfully took it over through different factors I'm happy to talk about. But that's kind of the high-level story.

So they recognize we kind of need the Supreme Court in order to impose our wildly unpopular weirdo views on the rest of the country. And so they went about trying to control the Supreme Court, and they successfully took it over through different factors I'm happy to talk about. But that's kind of the high-level story.

And one of those factors relates to this greenhouse effect that you just alluded to. So the greenhouse effect refers to This idea that once Republican presidents appointed Republican justices to the Supreme Court, they drifted left because they would read news coverage about them.