From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome

into another edition of The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. On this episode, we'll talk with Hillsdale

Assistant Professor of Politics, Adam Carrington, and take a last look at the most recent set of

opinions from the U.S. Supreme Court. Andrew McCarthy is here to discuss his new book, Ball

of Collusion. And Khalil

Habib from Hillsdale's Politics Department will introduce us to the thinking of Montescue.

But first, joined now by Dr. Adam Carrington, assistant professor of politics here at Hillsdale

College. You can also follow him on Twitter at Carrington AM. Dr. Carrington, thanks for joining us.

Thank you. Glad to be here. We will take some time here and look back a bit on the full 2018 Supreme Court term, which means the opinions have been released in 2019, of course.

We might not be able to make a firm statement on this for months,

years, with certainty, but would you consider the 2018 term, the 2019 opinions to be

highly consequential, kind of an average term, less than usual? What's your thought on

what we'll think about this maybe five years

from now? I think that it's how consequential it will be will really be dependent on future terms.

And I mean that more than someone could always say that. But what I mean by that is I think in some

ways, I've described to some people, this as being a term on the brink that a number of cases were brought up

that maybe in and of themselves were not as earth-shattering as say the Obamacare case in 2012

or Obergefell v. Hodges about marriage in 2015, but that themselves may set up major opinions to come in the future.

So I think that this is a term that in many ways will be seen as deeply connected to what comes in the future,

even if it itself didn't have as many cases that maybe non-court watchers were going to get into and be

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