Which are cosponsoring this event, i am delighted to welcome all of you here today to our first exclusively virtual preview of the Upcoming Supreme Court term. Whether you are watching over zoom, youtube, facebook, twitter, or our webpage, we are delighted to have you with us. We are recording this, as is may findo you yourself on cspan at some point in the future. We dont know when. To aspectse we turn of the upcoming term, i want to say a few words about Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg, who died two weeks ago. I first met Justice Ginsburg 37 judgeago, when i was a there. Judges are randomly assigned to the courts of appeals, and my boss, judge scalia, was on a panel. Justice ginsburg was an extra ordinary woman, and extra ordinary justice, an extraordinary lawyer, and an extra ordinary american. I would like to ask for a brief moment of silence in her honor. Let me introduce our moderator and turn it over to him to introduce our panel and get the discussion underway. Robert barnes got hi
At the Manhattan Institute where he is also director of legal policy and you have read his work all over national media, youve seen him on television youve heard on radio and, by the way, he holds the jd and mba from yale where he was an owen fellow in law and economics, also a ba in economics from none other than unc chapel hill where he was a morehead scholar. Jim, so glad to have you with us here for our shaft spirit society. Thank you for joining us thank you for having me, donna, always a pleasure to speak to the good folks at the John Locke Foundation. Ive said it before, as someone who has worked many years at a National Think tank, so much policy happens on the state level and John Locke Foundation is really a Gold Standard think tank that has helped to reshape North Carolina and such a positive direction and lot of the strength and resilience right now and sound fiscal ain the midst of a pandemic is really due to the great work of the John Locke Foundation has done. Thank you
Judges to be absolutely bound by the president of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has held in a case that that obligation is absolute. That Circuit Court judges are not permitted for example to anticipate over rulings of the court and jump the gun. Obligated tos are follow Supreme Court precedent. As well, they are bound to follow the precedent of their own circuit according to the circuits doctrine and for example in the seventh circuit, that means that edges follow precedent unless there are extraordinary circumstances that justify its overruling. Crocs lastly, as we just discussed, Circuit Court judges are required to follow all Supreme Court precedent. If confirmed, would you follow precedent regarding abortion . I would, absolutely. Daniel, we wanted to get your reaction to the nomination. I guess i am a little bit broken up about Justice Ginsburg. About abortion, she said she wished it had been done under the protection clause instead of under right to privacy. The right to
But what kind of judge is Amy Coney Barrett . That is what we are here to explore. Excellent panelists i invite to join me now on the screen while i give a brief introduction. Professorperson is jonathan adler, director of the center for environmental law at Case Western University school of law. Environmental, administrative, and constitutional law. A graduate of the george mason law school, now the scalia law school, he clerked on. D. C. Clerked on the circuit. Prior to joining case western, jonathan worked at the case Enterprise Institute where he was the director of the environmental studies program. Since joining case western coming he has received the distinguished teacher of the year award, as well as the federalist societys award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students. Jonathan is also the senior fellow at the Environmental Research center in bozeman, montana and has testified numerous times in front of congress, is a frequent commentator his articl
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