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
Sarah Isgur is a senior editor at The Dispatch and is based in northern Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2019, she had worked in every branch of the federal government and on three presidential campaigns. She’s also a ABC News contributor and the author of Last Branch Standing, a deep dive into the inner workings of the Supreme Court. When Sarah is not hosting podcasts or writing newsletters, she’s probably sending uplifting stories about spiders to Jonah, who only pretends to love all animals.
David French is a columnist for the New York Times. He’s a former senior editor of The Dispatch. He’s the author most recently of Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation.
