Call It "Self Defense"

You can always count on Dahlia Lithwick to come up with good insights on SCOTUS doings. Here's the latest:

For you constitutional-law scholars out there with casebooks to update, you may soon have an addition to the growing chapter of cases called "It Sucks To Be You." The facts of Pottawattamie County v. McGhee, the case the Supreme Court hears today, are spectacularly awful. But they may also prove spectacularly immaterial. In the Roberts Court era, "It Sucks To Be You" is a booming industry: Instances of shocking constitutional wrongs that cannot be corrected by constitutional courts.

Read the whole article -- it's amazing how far removed from reality the legal profession can get.