2/2: #SCOTUS: LAWFARE AGS, RED AND BLUE. JONATHAN ADLER, CIVITAS INSTITUTE
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:27.6 | This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Baxter with Professor Jonathan Adler, inaugural |
| 0:35.6 | of Johan Verheim, Memorial Professor of Law and Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at Case Western School of Law. |
| 0:43.2 | We've identified the problem, which is lawfare by the Attorney General's, almost like team tackling, the red states, the blue states. |
| 0:51.2 | If there's a red state in the White House, you're going to have a blue state team. |
| 0:55.3 | Now, lawfare is not a good word. However, what is to be done? |
| 1:00.5 | Jonathan, what I learned from you is that you have to concern yourself with people who are actually injured by decisions by the federal government who are blocked out because of these laws. |
| 1:11.8 | Is that correct? |
| 1:12.7 | I mean, is there no remedy for someone? |
| 1:15.7 | Well, I mean, the claim, to get into federal court, one should have to be able to show an |
| 1:21.0 | injury. |
| 1:21.5 | And in terms of how we reduce this law fair, I think there are three sorts of things that |
| 1:25.9 | could be done. |
| 1:26.7 | One, certainly the Supreme Court could correct what I think was are three sorts of things that could be done. One, certainly the Supreme |
| 1:28.2 | Court could correct what I think was an error. The Supreme Court could restore a more rigorous |
| 1:36.1 | test for standing as applied to states so that states could still bring legitimate claims about |
| 1:43.0 | state sovereignty and state prerogative, but couldn't try and use bootstrap effects on state citizens as a way of enabling the states to sue. So the Supreme Court could fix it if it wanted to. A second thing is, you know, certainly state attorneys general, and this might be against their interest, could return their focus to protecting and defending state interests. |
| 2:06.6 | I mean, it's amazing to me that state attorneys general these days spend more time suing the federal government to try and impose federal policy at a national level, then they do filing suits |
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