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Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

#004: Unlocking the ABCs: The Power of Agencies, Ballots, and Colleges in Today's World

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

The Heritage Foundation

Government

4.5527 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Case in Point, host Sarah Parshall Perry sits down with Will Trachman, General Counsel at Mountain States Legal Foundation, to reminisce about their time working in a presidential administration.


Will also talks about their case pending at the Supreme Court that concerns what citizen petitions are required to include before an issue is included on the ballot during an election. Plus, we talk dumb judicial opinions, DEI dismantling, and whether American public education is salveagable.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

0:04.8

Chief Justice, may it place of the court.

0:08.2

Welcome to this week's edition of Case in Point, the legal show for regular people.

0:13.2

I'm your host, Sarah Partial Perry, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation,

0:18.0

here in Washington, D.C.

0:19.6

And this, of course, as you know by now,

0:21.4

it's not your typical legal show, and I am not your typical lawyer. The law can be boring.

0:27.0

It can seem disconnected if the thought of federal agency rulemaking makes your eyes glaze over,

0:32.3

and you have no idea what a cert petition is. You have come to the right place.

0:36.6

That's why case and point is for you

0:38.6

our aims to take away all the mysteries surrounding that third branch of government, the courts,

0:45.1

and show you why you really need to care about legal developments across the country.

0:49.9

On this week's episode, I'll be talking to my friend Will Trackman. Will is General Counsel at the Mountain States Legal Foundation out in Colorado.

0:59.2

And he's got a very interesting case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court on a petition for cert.

1:05.3

Yes, a petition for review.

1:07.6

In that case, the question remains whether or not the government can tell private citizens

1:13.0

who are drafting a ballot initiative what information to include, or does that violate their right

1:20.0

to freedom of speech? We're also going to talk about what it's like to work in a federal

1:24.5

executive agency in Washington appointed by the president.

1:28.8

And we're going to talk about the dumbest thing we've ever heard, a legal professionals say.

1:33.1

There are, after all, 198 ABA-approved law schools in the country, but they don't all graduate geniuses.

1:42.3

Now, of course, I am the natural exception to that rule, as is Will,

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