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I'm Beatrice Adler Bolton and I am here today with my co-host, Phil Rocco.

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And the two of us are really excited to be joined by law scholars Karen Tani and Katie Iyer

to talk about their recent co-authored article published in the Yale Law Journal

called Disability and the ongoing Federalism Revolution, which is a groundbreaking look at a

previously under-examined or, well, frankly, under-recognized role that major court cases on disability

civil rights have played in shaping and enabling the contemporary

conservative moment, and the legal arguments conservatives have pursued to attack everything

from worker protections for COVID, abortion, trans care, environmental policy, you name it.

More specifically, the article explores the role that court cases involving disability played in laying

the groundwork for a concept known as New Federalism.

New federalism is a political philosophy that in many ways is at the core of the contemporary

conservative movement, whose focus is characterized by a no-holds-barred fight to restore power

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