Well get started. Good morning, everyone ip im elizabeth slattery, legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and this is a panel on the past Supreme Court term. So the Supreme Courts next oh, im sorry. The top one . Okay, there we go. The Supreme Courts next term starts . Just a few weeks but were here to reflect on the past term. I submit that the october term 2018 will more likely be remembered for Justice Brett kavanaughs confirmation hearings than for any particular case the court decided, and its too early to make sweeping statements about the impact of president Donald Trumps nominees to the court, though the rapid destruction of america, their opponents foresaw has yet to occur. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and neil gorsuch have however lived up to the chief justices declaration that we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. Like their predecessors, kavanaugh and gorsuch are their own men at times bucking expectations of how a trump judge will vote. T
Of the law and we will explore some of that today. This panel will focus on the highlights of the past term. The most important cases such as the census citizenship case and the political gerrymandering case and if you missed opportunities like the cases involving the nondelegation doctrine and deference to a ministry of agencies. Enough from me. We are fortunate to have with us today four distinguished panelists. And if i devoted the time there many achievements and positions deserved that would easily take about 90 minutes here. So i will keep their introductions extremely leave. Professor at Amherst College and founder and director of the James Wilson Institute on National Rights and the american founding. He has authored many books on politics, political philosophy and jurisprudence and his articles have appeared in professional journals as well as popular outlets including the wall street journal and national review. The henryan is salvatori professor of law and director of the ce
Here was, first, a white man, admitting that he was prejudice, which for people of color was, we kind of just say finally. We take you live to the washington counsel of lawyers. Well hear about some of the Big Decisions this last term. Introductions began just a moment ago. Paul has argued before the Supreme Court 21 times. I was lucky enough to be in the chamber of the Supreme Court when he argued on behalf of the plaintiffs in the landmark gay rights case. As a young man gay man considering whether to attend law school, i had slept on the sidewalk outside the Supreme Court for the chance to enter the chamber and observe a pursuit of justice. I would have been really bummed if i hadnt gotten in. It paid off and i was able to hear the oral arguments which were amazing. In addition, paul has argued a number of important voting ri t rights cases. One involving partisan jerry man gerrymandering. Paul has been honored nationally by a variety of publications and organizations in recognition
The ironies of law at an event ist societyhe federal in 2013. You are look. Without question firing without question, the codifying today we have about 5000 federal statutes on the books, most of them added in the last decades. Literally hundreds are added each year. Neither does that begin to account the additional regulatory crimes buried in the federal register. Or are so many in the fine print, scholars have given up counting and are now debating number. Joe biden worried we have assumed a tendency to federalize quote everything that walks, talks, and moves. To useow a federal crime the likeness of woodsy the owl or his immortal words, give a pollute. T lobster tails in plastic bags rather than cardboard boxes can be charged. Mattress sellers who removed that little tag . Yes, they are probably federal criminals, too. There appears to be a ratchet relentlessly clicking away always in favor of more, never fewer, federal laws. Some argue it is not out of proportion to our population
The ironies of law at an event ist societyhe federal in 2013. You are look. Without question firing without question, the codifying today we have about 5000 federal statutes on the books, most of them added in the last decades. Literally hundreds are added each year. Neither does that begin to account the additional regulatory crimes buried in the federal register. Or are so many in the fine print, scholars have given up counting and are now debating number. Joe biden worried we have assumed a tendency to federalize quote everything that walks, talks, and moves. To useow a federal crime the likeness of woodsy the owl or his immortal words, give a pollute. T lobster tails in plastic bags rather than cardboard boxes can be charged. Mattress sellers who removed that little tag . Yes, they are probably federal criminals, too. There appears to be a ratchet relentlessly clicking away always in favor of more, never fewer, federal laws. Some argue it is not out of proportion to our population