Do we want to entirely toss out the liberal notion that the judiciary has a roll to play in protecting individual and group rights against tyranny of the majority? And if so, how would we square that with everything else we've been talking about? So first, i do think this is something that emna writes and talks about, so i do think tat there is like a a defensive role that the law plays for movements. That's not really about, you know, radical transformation. I don't think that that's necessarily that law is the emancipatory or the transformative tool. It can be a space litigate, can be a way of just limiting some of the extreme forms of violence
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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