The Future of the Administrative State | Interview: Adam White

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🗓️ 27 November 2025

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Sarah Isgur invites Adam White, co-director of the Antonin Scalia Law School’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, to identify the major administrative law issues on the horizon in the next five to 10 years. The Agenda:—The Roberts Court and the Trump Term—The legislative veto—Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha—Decline of congressional power—Supreme Court reform and the future of judicial powers Show Notes:—Adam's currently nameless newsletter at AEI—Adam's column at SCOTUSblog—The Foreshadow Docket—Is Humphrey’s Executor headed for Slaughter? Advisory Opinions is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of our articles, members-only newsletters, and bonus podcast episodes—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. David French is off, I don't know, doing Thanksgiving. What a loser.
0:25.4	So instead, we have Adam White joining us. And look, guys, this is going to be a slow build on, you know, not this is going to be different than past advisory opinions.
0:37.0	We're not going to just go through
0:38.2	our agenda of cases. Instead, think of this like Beethoven's seventh symphony second movement.
0:45.0	It's going to start out and you're going to be like, that's nice, whatever, but it's going to
0:49.4	build and build until the very end when the music swells and tears come to your eyes as you realize
0:58.2	it's all come together, the bundle of sticks in one grand finale. So, stay tuned. Advisory
1:06.4	Opinions. Here we go.
1:11.6	All right, and we've got special guest, Adam J. White.
1:15.9	Wait, what does the J stand for?
1:17.8	Jeffrey.
1:18.8	Oh, that's exciting.
1:19.9	I should have said justice, right?
1:21.2	I should Adam Justice, White.
1:23.3	Well, I mean, it's like the Fifth Circuit judge who the courthouse is named after, minor wisdom.
1:28.7	I mean, nobody can beat that as a judge.
1:31.3	Lerned Hand was pretty good, but not a judge.
1:34.5	All right, you co-direct the Antonin Scalia Law School C. Boyden Gray Center for the study of the
1:42.4	administrative state.
1:43.7	You're at the American Enterprise Institute,
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