The courts. Good morning and welcome. I am dean reuter. It is my pleasure to welcome you here today. In the room, or watching on the live stream, or cspan. Welcome as we mark the 40th anniversary of the Federalist Society. I say the word mark purposefully. Some applause is appropriate but i am blessed interested in accolades. I am more interested in looking to the future. Indeed, my prediction as a veteran of the Federalist Society is that the Federalist Society is poised to accomplish more in the next 10 years then it has in the past 40. But, that depends on you. Not only is this organization yours, you are the organization. You are the Federalist Society. The Federalist Society is nothing more than its volunteer membership. Well, maybe the donors too. [laughter] the donors are important. We are a Nonprofit Organization and we are good at being a Nonprofit Organization. So, donors are important. The theme of this years convention is particularly topical. The current state of the legal
Part i work for the president , and likeminded colleagues and i have vowed to to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. People are calling the author gutless. When you tell me about some anonymous source within the administration, probably who is failing and probably here for all the wrong reasons and the New York Times is failing. The feeling New York Times has an anonymous editorial. Can you believe it . Anonymous. Meaning, gutless. A gutless editorial. We are doing a great job. The poll numbers are through the roof. The poll numbers are great. Sandra ellison barbers life from the white house. Any idea who is behind this article . A lot of speculation, but no official word just yet. The New York Times identifies the author as a senior official in the trumpet administration. There has been a lot of speculation, particularly online, on twitter, places like that. People hopping on specific words to try and identify who authored this oped. The chief of staff seemed to add
For many people, Thanksgiving means travelling, and while some people may be flying out of Phoenix to other parts of the country, some are headed to Phoenix to either be with family, or to escape the cold.
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John G. Malcolm: Welcome, everybody, to our virtual Joseph Story Lecture. My name is John Malcolm. I’m the Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government, but more germane for this event is that I’m also the Director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Because we are in the midst of a pandemic and these are unusual times, I am interviewing General Meese here in his home.
Ed, I have to tell you, this is a particular pleasure for me. I remember when we first met. It was either 1990 or 1991, and I was a baby Assistant U.S. Attorney in Atlanta and was in charge of inviting speakers to come to the national convention for the Federalist Society. I decided to take a flyer and invite you to come speak at a program on the overfederalization of crime, and to my amazement, not only did you accept, but from the first time I met you, you insisted that I call you Ed. I never dreamed that at some point in my career, I would have t
more successful influence on how government operates than they did 15 years ago, and, of course, a lot of that is people like elizabeth warren and many of us in this room disagree with, but you have, you know, increasingly through blogging through real world-oriented scholarship, you have much more effective liberal forms of, you know, styles of being a law professor than you had back in the days of critical legal studies and critical rest area. there s the second end not that closely related a question of where should a student want to go for a less than lopsided type of faculty. and many people i know who are confident in their own ideas are happy to go to a place where there is relatively little support for them. there is now the george mason school of law in the d.c. suburbs here which, as a brilliant market strategy, went out and scooped up a lot of conservative and libertarian faculty who were being undervalue inside the types of offers they were getting else where, h