262 · Tier 5 — High-leverage niche and emerging figures
Leah Litman
Co-host, Strict Scrutiny
AI position
No x-risk mention
No findable coverage of AI or AI risk in her work.
Why influential
Shapes how courts, investigations and executive power are understood by legal professionals, policymakers, advocates and news audiences. Primary policy lanes: supreme court; federal courts; reproductive rights.
Who pays attention
Progressive legal groups, reproductive-rights organizations, academics, students and Democratic officials
Work samples
- Strict Scrutiny podcast (Crooked Media)
Jan 1, 2026 · podcast
Ongoing Supreme Court/legal analysis show; no AI-focused episodes identified.
- Lawless: How the Supreme Court Came to Run on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
Jan 1, 2025 · article
2025 book on the Supreme Court; referenced via Wikipedia entry, not an AI topic.
AI-world contacts
Tech-side people they have hosted, quoted, covered, or engaged — collected by the research pass. None documented yet: this is the white space.