“The Supreme Court is radical, unaccountable, and very annoying. In Lawless, Litman draws on a legal canon that runs from Alexander Hamilton to Elle Woods to make this enraging story compelling, accessible, and really funny. She explains why you should trust your gut when it tells you that the Court isn't ruling based on legal principle, but on the hurt feelings of a bunch of angry rightwing weirdos. And in cutting these weirdos down to size, she makes the scale of our challenges feel more surmountable.”
—Jon Lovett, co-host of Pod Save America and co-author of Democracy Or Else

"The Supreme Court is broken. In Lawless, Professor Leah Litman explains how it got this way, with the common sense of an Elle Woods closing argument, and the clarity of a Jay-Z diss track."
—Elie Mystal, bestselling author of Allow Me to Retort

“Lawless is a lively narration of how big special interests captured the Supreme Court and redeployed it to deliver on the least popular policy planks of the Republican Party. Litman ably documents the Court’s devolution, as it was yoked into service to a political party and a billionaire class.”
—Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse

“This is the book you have to read if you’re bummed about our country and worried that the Supreme Court is wrecking it with legalistic pseudo-reasoning that masks its right-wing agenda. With brilliant wit and impeccable analysis, Litman rips off the mask, lays bare the illogic, and arms you with the tools you’ll need to replace confusion and despair with clarity and determination.”
—Laurence Tribe, author of Uncertain Justice

“Leah Litman’s Lawless is an urgent book to make sense of our unsettling times. Litman writes clearly, accessibly and with desperately needed humor about the ways in which the Supreme Court has responded and adapted to right-wing political movements and, in turn, how the Court has shaped the contours of our material lives, our political system, and the future of our democracy and planet. Even as you want cry at the state of the world, Litman keeps you laughing and somehow in the dire picture Lawless offers, there is a story for how we find our way through.”
—Chase Strangio, Civil Rights Attorney

"This impressive book tells the story of the ethical and intellectual collapse of the Supreme Court. But just as right-wing politics has wrecked the possibility of real justice on the Court, democratic politics can give us a chance to remake the Court and restore what has been lost."
—U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin, Democratic leader on the House Judiciary Committee and bestselling author of Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

“A refreshingly accessible and outrageously funny indictment of robed partisans drunk on power. Leah Litman is the ideal guide for this tour of the Supreme Court's assault on democracy and civil rights: She's wise, witty, and totally fearless in reading the justices for filth. Lawless is an essential book for anyone seeking to understand how our judiciary became the most dangerous branch—and how we can fight back.”
—Mark Stern, senior writer and Supreme Court correspondent, Slate