I think it's essential for the left to embrace law as a form tool and turrain of politics. And i think movements are doing that in a way that's really powerful. One of the things that's so important, compelling, em striking about to day's movement s is whether or not it's explicitly articulating an intuition about the kind of anti populous, anti majoritarian nature of the courts.
A timely interview from the archives: legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal court veneration, and other big questions on the law and politics facing the left.
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