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

Hey.

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

to the states by taking it away from the federal government.

New federalism is a political legal philosophy took hold in the context of backlash to the New Deal during the

Nixon years. And in decades that followed, there is a second specific new federalism-oriented

legal movement that helps the Supreme Court to become the court as we know it with the role and

power it has in our current

political economy. So our conversation is as much about disability law as it is about

how competing ideologies of federalism have come to dominate politics. And this article

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