Well, since we were talking about whether these justices are really just partisans in robes, I have to recommend my podcast co-host, Leah Litman's book, Lawless, which is a very accessible and pretty scathing indictment of the Roberts court and I think a fullthroated defense of the thesis that the Republican justices, as she calls them, are just partisans in robes. So, recommend that one.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “The Supreme Court Is Backing Trump's Power Grab” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kate-shaw.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
Um, I was on vacation recently and read Gary Steinart's new novel, Vera or Faith, which is um, you know, a fun kind of near future dystopia, but has a constitutional amendment storyline. um that
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “The Supreme Court Is Backing Trump's Power Grab” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kate-shaw.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
And on the topic of constitutional amendments I'm reading a galley of Jill Leapore the brilliant Harvard historian um her new book we the people which is about constitutional amendment um which I mean you know if we think that the lack of anticipation of party in the constitution is one real design flaw.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “The Supreme Court Is Backing Trump's Power Grab” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kate-shaw.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
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