This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, May 13th, 2019. I'm Kila Brown.

At the Cato Institute's Benefactor Summit in in April, Kentucky Junior Senator Rand Paul

detailed some of the reasons why fears of so-called judicial activism are overblown

and why he believes a philosophy of liberty needs constant renewal.

This is a portion of his remarks.

So thanks to Roger and Randy Barnett,

and those who have talked a lot about judicial engagement.

I go to Heritage. And I'm over at heritage and I have

about 150 young conservative kids and so I like a challenge. I like to tilt at

windmills and I said how many people believe in

judicial restraint everyone raised their hand so then I had a board and I decided

I do the little chalkboard thing and I said well let's

look at some of the Supreme Court decisions of the last 100 years and find out which

side you would be on if you were for less government, limited government,

or whether you're conservative.

Lochner, I think it's clear.

It's a yes.

The court did overturn states that were interfering with contracts on minimum wage or hours that can be spent.

So that was an activist court.

Most libertarians are a yes.

Now there are a couple of conservatives still confused about Lochner, but the libertarians are generally a yes,

overturning Jim Crow laws.

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