
About this episode
David Lat joins Sarah and David to break down recent Supreme Court trends and discuss Lat’s legal fiction novel, Supreme Ambitions.
The Agenda:
—Is the shadow docket problem solved?
—Supreme Court approval rating
—Stabilizing the Supreme Court
—Lat’s pick for most interesting justice
—Who will win the text, history, and tradition fight?
—Advice for law students
—Lat’s book, Supreme Ambitions
—Stranger than legal fiction
—Male authors writing female protagonists
—Lat’s favorite legal writing
—The return of crime procedurals
Show Notes:
—Shadow docket on Biden Title IX regulations
—Advisory Opinions on Presumed Innocent
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