I was joined on Weekend Reading Live yesterday by Lisa Graves, author of Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights (a must-read, as is her Substack, Grave Injustice). We delved into why the Roberts Court is historically unique in the way it’s been captured by dark-money interests—a history Lisa knows firsthand, based on her experience as chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee and her work on the judicial nominations process for the Justice Department.
And it’s not just the Supreme Court; the Eighth Circuit, which has jurisdiction over Minnesota, has also been captured and has repeatedly intervened to block lower-court efforts to restrain ICE abuses and protect basic constitutional rights.
As we discussed, the phrase “not above the law” has no meaning anymore when the Roberts Court keeps changing what the law means. Lisa will be joining me more regularly from now on to keep track of the latest.
