This is the Cater Daily Podcast for Tuesday, September 29th, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Just how deferential would Judge Amy Coney Barrett B to administrative agencies.

What areas of law give us the clearest picture of her judicial philosophy and how it would be

expressed on the Supreme Court if she's confirmed?

Andrew Grossman is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.

He comments.

You do more than most when it comes to understanding how judges think based upon what they've written.

What are your general takes on Amy Koney Barrett?

Well, everybody has so much to say about Judge Barrett, but at the end of the day she's being nominated to serve on a court and the best way to get a sense of a judge's judicial philosophy, judicial temperament, and so forth, is to actually read their opinions. judicial since being placed on the Seventh Circuit. And she is a textualist par excellence.

She said yesterday that she considers herself to be a judge in the mold of Justice Scalia

following the text statutes, the text of the Constitution, the original meaning,

but it's not only a sound bite for her,'s what you see in case after case she takes these

complicated issues makes them simple and goes right to the sources and she's very good at it

in any particular area where she shows a strong inclination that libertarians would appreciate?

Well, I think there are a lot of things.

The place I probably start is just by libertarians in general are supportive of the textualist mode of judicial philosophy for a good reason because frequently you wind up with the

government trying to go outside of the bounds of the law you have the executive

branch you know taking cases on novel legal theories or trying to skirt the facts and so on and so forth and so a judge

somebody like Justice Scalia or somebody like Judge Barrett who actually holds the government to the law

to what's written in the statute, you know, that goes a long way

towards enforcing due process rights because, you know, if you can read the law and you can understand

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