http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/a40908b00436fac4 https://verfassungsblog.de/liberal-litigation-courts/ The Liberal Litigation Trap - Reckoning with the Conservative Supreme Court Hosie, Duncan eng 2025-07-09 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Authoritarianism Constitutional Interpretation Liberalism Resistance US Supreme Court USA. Supreme Court strategic litigation USA. Supreme Court Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The progressive legal movement faces a harsh reality: its reliance on federal courts has become a strategic liability in an era of conservative judicial dominance. Rather than continue on its current path or abandon impact litigation entirely, liberal cause lawyers should embrace “resistance through restraint” – tactically starving conservative appellate courts of cases while redirecting their energy toward democratic organizing, state-level advocacy, and defensive litigation.