Adam White: The Supreme Court and the Conservative Legal Movement Today

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🗓️ 19 October 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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What is the role of the Supreme Court in American politics today? How is the current Court dealing with hot-button social and cultural issues, as well as topics like regulation and the scope of the administrative state? What are the major ideas and debates in conservative legal thought today? In this Conversation, Adam White, Executive Director at George Mason Law School’s C. Boyden Gray Center and a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, offers an incisive analysis of the Supreme Court and the role of the judicial branch as a whole in America today. Discussing the current conservative majority on the Supreme Court, White highlights the tension between the desire for judicial restraint and the desire to revisit previous rulings that may have been wrongly decided. White argues that Chief Justice Roberts will have to manage this tension responsibly as he seeks to shape the character of the current Court. White and Kristol also discuss how both liberals and conservatives might treat the Court as a political issue in 2020.

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0:00.0	And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal. Welcome to Conversations. I'm joined by my friend Adam White,
0:19.7	who's recently moved from the Hoover Institution to the American Enterprise Institute where you're, what's your
0:25.0	distinguished title here?
0:27.0	Visiting, resident scholar.
0:28.0	Resident scholar.
0:29.0	Did you have the same high title at Hoover or was it just a visiting scholar?
0:32.8	I felt, I felt, you were a resident scholar.
0:34.6	I felt appreciated at Hoover too.
0:35.8	That's good, yes.
0:36.8	Anyway, AI is a new program on social, cultural, and constitutional
0:39.1	studies, which is great and you're going to be a key part of that.
0:43.0	You've obviously been a very lawyer and a commentator on all matters legal, judicial,
0:49.0	the courts and the administrative state for the weekly standard and many other journals and we had a conversation
0:55.2	previously about the courts in the administrative state before the Trump administration began, I guess,
0:58.8	I think, right?
0:59.8	But today we're going to talk about the judiciary, kind of an important topic.
1:04.0	Key talking point of Trump supporters and maybe legitimately so.
1:08.0	I guess I'd like to begin with sort of 30,000 feet.
1:12.0	I mean if you studied American politics,
1:14.6	there was the Warren Court era,
1:15.8	and then there was maybe more ambiguously
1:18.0	the Burger Court era, which seemed to be sort of the Warren Court
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