The War Between the States and the Federal Government
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
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🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Guest is South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, who discusses the legal battles the state has waged against the federal government, starting with his successful fight to defend a voter ID law.
Classic movie review of the 1959 “Anatomy of a Murder,” one of the most realistic legal movies produced by Hollywood.
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| 0:00.0 | Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself. |
| 0:04.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court. |
| 0:08.0 | This is Vons Vons-Bakoski, and you're listening and watching to Case in Point. |
| 0:13.0 | Our episode today is called The War Between the States and the Federal Government. |
| 0:19.0 | Ever since Franklin Delano Roosevelt started the huge growth in the federal government, that |
| 0:26.6 | growth has often been at the expense of and to the detriment of the public and the states. |
| 0:34.1 | It's that expansion that has led to the bloated monstrosity that we see as the federal government today, |
| 0:39.9 | which overtaxes, over-regulates, and frankly overspends the tax money that we all send to Washington. |
| 0:49.8 | Now, the main fighters against this dangerous growth in control have been the state governments. |
| 0:59.0 | And that means the Attorney Generals of those states, folks like Alan Wilson, who is starting |
| 1:06.0 | his third term, in his third term as Attorney General of South Carolina. He is a veteran of both the legal |
| 1:14.7 | profession and the veteran of arms, besides being a judicial clerk. And having been a civil |
| 1:21.7 | litigator in private practice, he was also an assistant solicitor general, an assistant |
| 1:27.0 | attorney general, and of course, |
| 1:29.7 | has been the attorney general since I think 2011, and in fact is a major in the South Carolina |
| 1:37.6 | National Guard and got a combat action badge for leading troops under fire in Iraq. So, Alan, welcome to the show. I appreciate |
| 1:47.6 | you coming on today. Hans, it's great to be with you. I've known you a long time. I just realized that I need |
| 1:53.0 | to update my bio. I haven't been a major in 15 years. I'm an actual colonel. And I'm in my fourth term, |
| 1:59.0 | so I need to update my bio. |
| 2:02.7 | Yeah, okay. |
| 2:03.3 | Well, that's, you need to update the website. |
| 2:06.8 | We'll get right on that. |
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