How Low Can the DOJ Go?

From the DOJ’s targeting of the Southern Poverty Law Center for its anti-KKK work to Kash Patel’s outrageous lawsuit against The Atlantic for its reporting on his unfitness for office to the Fifth Circuit’s legal contortions allowing Texas to mandate the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms, it’s been a wild week in the law. Kate and Leah unpack it all before recapping the week’s oral arguments, which featured the welcome return of former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar to One First Street’s hallowed halls. For the second part of the show, Kate and Leah speak with University of Pennsylvania law professor Shaun Ossei-Owusu about his new book, Law on Trial: An Unlikely Insider Reckons with Our Legal System . Favorite things: Kate: Sexistential , Robyn; USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew , Vittoria Elliott (Wired); Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID , Nicholas Enrich; Enrich’s interview on Pod Save the World ; Melissa on the Work Friends podcast Leah: The Great Divide , Noah Kahan; Kahan’s Tiny Desk Concert ; It Is Time for Ruthless Aggression , Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark); The Gerrymandering Fight Should Be A Dress Rehearsal For Court Packing , Brian Beutler (Off Message); Sanewashing the Emergency Docket , Steve Vladeck (One First); The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche , Chris Geidner (Law Dork); LEGO Kash Patel videos Get tickets for STRICT SCRUTINY LIVE – The Bad Decisions Tour 2026! 6/20/26 – New York City Learn more: Preorder Melissa’s book, The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader Preorder a signed paperback of Leah’s book, Lawless, here .

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