rich 1.0 Huge news for lawyers: You can now listen to Strict Scrutiny for CLE! More info at http://crooked.com/strict_cleFriend of the Pod Emily Amick of Emily in Your Phone (https://emilyinyourphone.substack.com/) joins Leah to break down the week’s legal news, and the various and sundry ways due process is getting railroaded by Trump, the courts, and the terrible (mostly) men therein. While no discussion of bad decisions would be complete without the Fifth Circuit, we also have an appearance from Senator Josh Hawley, whose effort to limit information on medical abortion options has disturbing links to the playbook used against gender-affirming care. Then, Leah speaks with Kalpana Kotagal, Commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, about being the lone Democratic appointee after Trump fired the others, and the work of the Commission in a post-independent agency world. Check out Emily’s Substack (https://emilyinyourphone.substack.com/) , Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/emilyinyourphone/?hl=en) , and her book, Democracy in Retrograde (https://bookshop.org/p/books/democracy-in-retrograde-how-to-make-changes-big-and-small-in-our-country-and-in-our-lives-emily-amick/e3758f2959e47970?ean=9781668053492&bkshp-astro=t) . Favorite things: Leah:The Off Campus Series (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-deal-elle-kennedy/702752eb3ad47fa3?ean=9781775293934&bkshp-astro=t) , Elle Kennedy; Game of Rogues (https://bookshop.org/p/books/game-of-rogues-a-novel-julie-anne-long/b2c8577a4f66af5d?ean=9780063464803&bkshp-astro=t) , Julie Anne Long; Andrew Tate's Empire of Abuse (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/15/andrew-tates-empire-of-abuse) , Heidi Blake (+ Blake’s interview with WITHpod (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/andrew-tates-empire-of-abuse-with-heidi-blake/id1382983397?i=1000774901952) ); Autonomy News (https://www.autonomynews.co/) ; this decision (https://www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/SCWC-22-0000740.pdf) from the Hawaii Supreme Court; Subpoenas About Reporting on Qatar Gifted Air Force One Are Withdrawn After Argument in SDNY (https://innercitypress.com/sdny34subramaniansubpoenasicp072326.html) , Matthew Russell Lee (Inner City Press (https://innercitypress.com/sdny34subramaniansubpoenasicp072326.html) ) Emily: Careless People (https://bookshop.org/p/books/careless-people-a-cautionary-tale-of-power-greed-and-lost-idealism-sarah-wynn-williams/804251bb5d4b06b3?ean=9781250391230&bkshp-astro=t) , Sarah Wynn-Williams; The God of the Woods (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-god-of-the-woods-a-novel-liz-moore/c3cbf4f80cbe4a47?ean=9780593418925&bkshp-astro=t) , Liz Moore; Ride or Die (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNSTJRC8?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback) (Amazon Prime); Smitten Kitchen’s zucchini pasta (https://smittenkitchen.com/2021/06/zucchini-butter-spaghetti/) Get tickets for STRICT SCRUTINY LIVE on November 6th in Washington, DC: Crookedcon.com (http://crookedcon.com/) Buy Melissa’s book, The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-constitution-annotated-for-the-contemporary-reader-melissa-murray/8e7f0dfa472fc3ca?ean=9781668221938&next=t&) Buy Leah’s book, Lawless (https://bookshop.org/p/books/lawless-how-the-supreme-court-runs-on-conservative-grievance-fringe-theories-and-bad-vibes-leah-litman/5b562d6fcb316d6e?ean=9781668054642&next=t) , now out in paperback Follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/strictscrutinypodcast/?hl=en) , Threads (https://www.threads.net/@strictscrutinypodcast) , and Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/strictscrutiny.bsky.social) For a transcript of an episode of Strict Scrutiny please email transcripts@crooked.com (mailto:transcripts@crooked.com) Strict Scrutiny https://audioboom.com/channels/5166629-strict-scrutiny Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43408246/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8932595/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>