This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, March 15th, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Is the judiciary compromised by money donated to groups that then write briefs to those courts?

Our organizations, well, like the Cato Institute, actively working to unduly influence

judges to interpret the law and the Constitution in a favorable way.

Senator Sheldon White House seems to believe that's the case, and he wants to know exactly

who is funding groups that file briefs and federal courts, among other

invasive measures. Cato's Ilia Shapiro heads the amicus program at the

Cato Institute. We spoke last week.

Based on his statements and hearings,

what does Sheldon White House believe

about the federal judiciary?

Senator White House doesn't like

conservative,

originalist, libertarian judges and legal scholars.

And he thinks they're too powerful.

And he thinks they're too powerful for a whole host

of reasons, including so-called dark money and he's proposed a

number of pieces of legislation to require more disclosure of those funding

sources travel by these judges, and other

connections between such nefarious organizations as the Federalist Society

Pacific Legal Foundation, the Cato Institute, and members of the Federal

...