{"id":120706,"date":"2025-05-28T16:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T00:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/28\/supreme-court-just-making-it-up-as-it-goes-along\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T00:03:33","slug":"supreme-court-just-making-it-up-as-it-goes-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/28\/supreme-court-just-making-it-up-as-it-goes-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Just Making It Up As It Goes Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/GettyImages-1399070257-620x413.jpg?resize=620%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84914\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As Supreme Court season hits fever pitch, we\u2019re joined by Professor Leah Litman, author of <em>Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes<\/em>, to discuss the nightmare we\u2019re facing. Elena Kagan took the opportunity to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/elena-kagan-does-that-thing-elena-kagan-does-where-she-humiliates-the-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">humiliate her colleagues<\/a> last week calling out an arbitrary carve out created to protect their investments. Kagan\u2019s frustration seems to be growing down the stretch, having just eviscerated the government in the birthright citizenship case. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/watch-kristi-noem-whiff-on-basic-constitutional-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kristi Noem failed introductory constitutional law<\/a> in front of the Senate, flailing as she tried to define habeas corpus.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/supreme-court-just-making-it-up-as-it-goes-along\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court Just Making It Up As It Goes Along<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/GettyImages-1399070257-620x413.jpg?resize=620%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84914\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As Supreme Court season hits fever pitch, we\u2019re joined by Professor Leah Litman, author of <em>Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes<\/em>, to discuss the nightmare we\u2019re facing. Elena Kagan took the opportunity to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/elena-kagan-does-that-thing-elena-kagan-does-where-she-humiliates-the-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">humiliate her colleagues<\/a> last week calling out an arbitrary carve out created to protect their investments. Kagan\u2019s frustration seems to be growing down the stretch, having just eviscerated the government in the birthright citizenship case. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/watch-kristi-noem-whiff-on-basic-constitutional-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kristi Noem failed introductory constitutional law<\/a> in front of the Senate, flailing as she tried to define habeas corpus.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/supreme-court-just-making-it-up-as-it-goes-along\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court Just Making It Up As It Goes Along<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Supreme Court season hits fever pitch, we\u2019re joined by Professor Leah Litman, author of Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes, to discuss the nightmare we\u2019re facing. Elena Kagan took the opportunity to humiliate her colleagues last week calling out an arbitrary carve out created to protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-1399070257-620x413-hBNPAm.jpeg?fit=620%2C413&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}