Gray Matters
151 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe C. Boyden Gray Center for the Administrative State, at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, supports research and debate on the modern administrative state, and the constitutional issues surrounding it. In this podcast, we’ll discuss some of the questions being debated around modern administration — some new questions, some timeless ones. And you can also get the audio from Gray Center events.
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A Debate on The Right—Climate Lawsuits and Federalism: What Is the Role of State Tort Law?
May 17, 2024 13:45 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBThis is a rebroadcast of a panel discussion from an event we co-hosted on May 15, 2024, with the Manhattan Institute and the Federalist Society. The panelists discuss whether state tort law is an appropriate tool for addressing climate change and the petition for certiorari in Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu. Featured Speakers: Jonathan Adler, Case Western Reserve University School of Law James Copland, Senior Fellow and Director of Legal Policy, Manhattan Institute Donal...
Federal Preemption and Environmental Regulation
May 03, 2024 21:35 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBThis is a rebroadcast of the Gray Center's Federal Preemption and Environmental Regulation Webinar. We hosted this event on April 29, 2024, to discuss the issues involved in two pending cases where energy companies have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether the Clean Air Act preempts attempts by Honolulu, Hawaii, to redress certain climate change-related alleged injuries. Featured Speakers: Jonathan Adler, Case Western Reserve University School of Law Richard Epstein, New York Un...
Paul Ray's Critique of the Expertise Rationale for Chevron Deference
March 08, 2024 18:34 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBAdam White and Jace Lington chat with former OIRA Administrator Paul J. Ray about his new paper, “Lover, Mystic, Bureaucrat, Judge: The Communication of Expertise and the Deference Doctrines.” In the paper, Mr. Ray critiques the expertise rationale for Chevron deference, arguing that agency employees can share much of the special knowledge they use to make decisions with reviewing courts. Notes: Lover, Mystic, Bureaucrat, Judge: The Communication of Expertise and the Deference Doctrines, P...
Equity and the Administrative State
March 01, 2024 18:03 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBThe C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy recently hosted a series of webinars ahead of a forthcoming symposium on Equity and the Administrative State. This episode of Gray Matters is a panel discussion from February 23, 2024, about affirmative action and other ways regulators pursue equity through the administrative state featuring Ming Chen, Jesse Merriam, and Bijal Shah, moderated by Kmele Foster. Notes: Video o...
Racial Classifications and Democratic Institutions
February 23, 2024 18:31 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBThe C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy recently hosted a series of webinars ahead of a forthcoming symposium on Equity and the Administrative State. This episode of Gray Matters is a panel discussion about the use of racial classifications to make public policy and how race has affected the character of American institutions featuring David Bernstein, Jonathan Berry, and Joy Milligan, moderated by Renée Landers. ...
Disney v. Democracy
February 16, 2024 19:54 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBJace Lington chats with Scalia Law Professor Donald J. Kochan about Florida and Disney. They discuss his recent paper applying public choice theory to Florida’s Reedy Creek Improvement Act of 1967 and why the special treatment Disney received from the state is not a good model for state and local regulation. Notes: Disney v. Democracy? A Public Choice and Good Governance Analysis of Florida’s Reedy Creek Improvement Act of 1967 and Its Resulting Regime, Donald J. Kochan
Jed Shugerman's Major Questions About Emergency Powers and Standing
February 09, 2024 18:50 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBAdam White and Jace Lington chat with Law Professor Jed Handelsman Shugerman about lingering issues following the Supreme Court’s decision in the Biden v. Nebraska student loan case. They discuss a recent paper Shugerman presented at a Gray Center research roundtable, “Biden v. Nebraska: The New State Standing and the (Old) Purposive Major Questions Doctrine.” Notes: Biden v. Nebraska: The New State Standing and the (Old) Purposive Major Questions Doctrine, Jed Handelsman Shugerman Major ...
Michael Ramsey’s Originalist Defense of the Major Questions Doctrine
February 02, 2024 16:25 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBAdam White and Jace Lington chat with Law Professor Michael D. Ramsey about how originalists can defend the major questions doctrine as a substantive canon of interpretation. He examines post-ratification court practice and other substantive canons designed by judges to minimize the harms of judicial error when interpreting ambiguous statutes. Ramsey recently presented a paper on this subject at a Gray Center research roundtable. Notes: An Originalist Defense of the Major Questions Doctrine...
Fixing Deference with Ronald A. Cass
January 26, 2024 14:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBAdam White and Jace Lington chat with Ronald A. Cass about the future of judicial deference to agency actions. They discuss Cass’s recent papers, “Fixing Deference: Delegation, Discretion, and Deference Under Separated Powers,” published by the New York University Journal of Law & Liberty, and “Getting Deference Right,” published by National Affairs. Ron insists on the crucial distinction between court decisions on what the law means and agency decisions about policy implementation. Notes: ...
The Future of Financial Regulation Panel 2: What Should Regulate the Financial Regulators?
December 19, 2023 15:38 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBThe C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, the Mercatus Center, and the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy recently hosted a full-day symposium on the future of financial regulation. This episode of Gray Matters is a panel discussion featuring law professors Bridget C.E. Dooling and Kristin E. Hickman along with former OIRA Administrator Paul J. Ray and AEI Senior Fellow Emeritus Peter Wallison, moderated by Gray Center Co-Executive Director Adam White. They disc...
The Future of Financial Regulation Panel 1: What is the Future of Financial Regulation?
December 16, 2023 02:08 - 1 hour - 81 MBThe C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, the Mercatus Center, and the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy recently hosted a full-day symposium on the future of financial regulation. This episode of Gray Matters is a panel discussion featuring the Hoover Institution's John H. Cochrane and professors Kathryn Judge, Jonathan R. Macey, and Todd J. Zywicki, moderated by Scalia Law professor Paolo Saguato. They discuss banking regulation, consumer finance, and what might ...
The Future of Financial Regulation: Keynote Conversation with Jelena McWilliams
December 13, 2023 09:42 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBThis episode of Gray Matters is the first of a three-part series and came out of a recent conference we hosted about the future of financial regulation. In this episode, Adam White speaks with former FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams about the current state of banking regulation. They discuss presidential oversight of the FDIC, how chairman McWilliams thought about her role, and the most pressing issues facing banks and regulators today. Notes: Videos from the conference Chairman McWilliams'...
Cicero Institute 2023 Report on State Regulatory Process Reform
December 05, 2023 16:19 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBAdam White and Jace Lington talk with Jonathan Wolfson about a new Cicero Institute report that ranks state regulatory systems based on their accountability, responsiveness, and transparency. They discuss cost-benefit analysis, regulatory sunset provisions, state-level centralized review modeled on OIRA, and venue restrictions. Notes: Matthew Nolan and Jonathan Wolfson, National Regulatory Reform: Progress Rankings Report 2023 Matthew Nolan and Jonathan Wolfson, State Regulatory Processes ...
Chevron on Trial Panel 4: The Future of Deference and Environmental Law
November 28, 2023 17:56 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBThe C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the George Mason Law Review recently hosted a full-day symposium on the future of Chevron Deference. This episode of Gray Matters is a panel discussion featuring Professors Caroline Cecot, Emily Hammond, and E. Donald Elliott, moderated by Senior Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. They focus on the future of Chevron deference in the context of environmental and ene...
Chevron on Trial Panel 3: Who Interprets Statutes?
November 21, 2023 18:16 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBThe C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the George Mason Law Review recently hosted a full-day symposium on the future of Chevron Deference. This episode of Gray Matters is a panel discussion featuring Aditya Bamzai, Jonathan S. Masur, Eli Nachmany, Victoria F. Nourse, moderated by Judge Chad A. Readler of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Notes: Video from the conference
Chevron on Trial Keynote: Paul J. Ray on the Expertise Rationale for Chevron Deference and a Fireside Chat with Jennifer Mascott
November 14, 2023 13:40 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBThe C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the George Mason Law Review recently hosted a full-day symposium on the future of Chevron Deference. This episode of Gray Matters features a keynote address from Paul J. Ray, presenting his new paper about the expertise rationale for Chevron deference, and a fireside chat between Mr. Ray and Gray Center Co-Executive Director Jennifer Mascott, discussing his time as Administrator of OIRA. Notes: Video from the conference...
Chevron on Trial Panel 2: Is Chevron Inevitable? What Should Replace It?
November 07, 2023 17:05 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBThe C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the George Mason Law Review recently hosted a full-day symposium on the future of Chevron Deference. This episode of Gray Matters features a discussion among Law Professors Lisa Schultz Bressman, John F. Duffy, and Daniel E. Walters about the Loper Bright case and whether some form of judicial deference is unavoidable in administrative law, moderated by Judge David J. Porter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circ...
Chevron on Trial Panel 1: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
October 31, 2023 17:45 - 1 hour - 78.4 MBThe C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the George Mason Law Review recently hosted a full-day symposium on the future of Chevron Deference. This episode of Gray Matters features a discussion among Law Professors Kent Barnett, Christopher J. Walker, and Thomas W. Merril about the Loper Bright case and the future of Chevron deference, moderated by Judge Paul B. Matey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Notes: Video of the panel discussion from ...
SCOTUS Preview Part 2 with Josh Chafetz and Noah Rosenblum
October 18, 2023 00:21 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBAdam White and Jace Lington talk with Josh Chafetz and Noah Rosenblum about some of the big administrative law cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. They discuss the state of the Court, where things might be headed next, and problems with conservative critiques of the Administrative State. Notes: Noah Rosenblum, What We Talk About When We Talk About the Rule of Law in the Administrative State, New York University Journal of Law & Liberty, Vol. 16, No. 3 (2023) Josh Chafetz, The New ...
SCOTUS Preview Part 1 with Richard Epstein and Allyson Ho
October 10, 2023 21:51 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBAdam White talks with NYU Law Professor Richard Epstein and Gibson Dunn Partner Allyson Ho about the upcoming Supreme Court term. They discuss the recent oral argument in the CFPB funding case, the major questions doctrine, how the court should approach revisiting Chevron deference in the upcoming Loper Brightcase, and the adjudication system in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
"Why Congress" with Philip Wallach
June 29, 2023 17:14 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBJace Lington talks with AEI’s Philip Wallach about his new book, Why Congress. They discuss what makes Congress central to the American system of representative government and reasons we should look to Congress as the best place to resolve the most contentious issues of our day. Notes: Why Congress, Oxford University Press, 2023 The Revolution That Wasn’t: Conservatives Against Congress, 1981-2018, Gray Center Working Paper 20-22 Incompletely Theorized Agreements in Constitutional Law,...
Rethinking Civil Service Management with James-Christian Blockwood
June 09, 2023 17:57 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBAdam White and Jace Lington talk with James-Christian Blockwood about his recent Government Executive article on civil service reform. They discuss current proposals to make more civil servants removable at will as well as ways to build a nonpartisan, professional federal workforce that protects the interests of the American people. Show Notes: Let's Rethink the Management of our Civil Service, GovExec, April 28, 2023 Partnership for Public Service, Website "You Report to Me” Gray Matter...
"You Report to Me" with David Bernhardt
May 10, 2023 17:25 - 51 minutes - 47 MBAdam White and Jace Lington talk with former Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt about his new book, You Report to Me: Accountability for the Failing Administrative State. In the book, Secretary Bernhardt offers his perspective on reforming the administrative state based on years of public service at the Department of Interior spanning multiple presidential administrations. Show Notes: You Report to Me: Accountability for the Failing Administrative State, Encounter Books, May 9, 2023
Scalia's Rise
May 04, 2023 18:14 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBJace Lington talks with Adam White about the new book, Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936–1986, by James Rosen. They discuss Scalia’s early life and career, including his family, his faith, and his work in private practice and as a lawyer and teacher. Adam highly recommends the book for anyone interested in Antonin Scalia and his contributions to our understanding of the Constitution and American institutions. Show Notes: Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936–1986, James Rosen, Regnery Scalia’s Ri...
Gray Lecture: The Administrative State Debate—A View From the Secretary’s Office
April 27, 2023 18:17 - 49 minutes - 39.9 MBFormer Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia delivers the Second Annual C. Boyden Gray Lecture on the Administrative State. Following an introduction by Boston University School of Law Dean Emeritus Ron Cass, Secretary Scalia discusses his time working at the Department of Labor and how his experience leading a cabinet agency affected the way he thinks about debates involving the administrative state. Show Notes: Video of Panel
Gray Lecture Panel 2: Congress’s Power of the Purse in the Modern Administrative State
April 21, 2023 20:41 - 1 hour - 54.8 MBFormer Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney and Stanford Law Professor Michael W. McConnell discuss the importance of Congress's power of the purse in constitutional government, an issue of significant importance in cases now before the Supreme Court, in a conversation with Gray Center Co-Executive Director Adam White.
Gray Lecture Panel 1: What is "The Rule of Law" in Administrative Law?
April 13, 2023 17:04 - 1 hour - 71 MBRonald A. Cass, Sally Katzen, and Noah J. Philips kick off the 2023 Annual Gray Lecture with a conversation about the "rule of law" in administrative law. This panel discussion builds on a forthcoming symposium featuring essays on the rule of law that will soon appear in the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty. The Gray Center and the NYU JLL cohosted an event in February on campus at NYU to discuss the themes of the essays. We were glad to bring the conversation to Washington, D.C., to continue the...
Judge Glock and the Origins of the Novice Administrative State
March 27, 2023 15:23 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBAdam White and Jace Lington talk with Judge Glock, director of research and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, about how progressive reformers designed independent regulatory commissions to replace the function of juries, the subject of his new article in Regulation magazine. Glock argues that the original approach to staffing regulatory commissions during the Progressive Era focused on... Source
NYU Rule of Law Symposium Keynote Address: Judge Neomi Rao on the Missing Congress
March 21, 2023 18:29 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBThe Honorable Neomi Rao gives keynote remarks about the tendency of courts to look at tradeoffs between the executive and judicial branches and largely ignore Congress in separation of powers cases. Her speech came out of a forthcoming symposium in the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty and took place on campus at NYU. Source
NYU Rule of Law Symposium Panel 2: The Roberts Court and the Administrative State
March 13, 2023 19:09 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBProfessors Gary Lawson and Sally Katzen join Adam White to talk about the Roberts Court and administrative law on a panel moderated by Judge Steven J. Menashi. The discussion came out of a forthcoming symposium in the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty and took place on campus at NYU. Source
NYU Rule of Law Symposium Panel 1: What is "The Rule of Law" in Administrative Law?
March 06, 2023 16:33 - 1 hour - 59 MBProfessors Noah A. Rosenblum, Thomas W. Merrill, and Philip Hamburger talk about what the rule of law means in the context of administrative law on a panel moderated by Judge Rachel P. Kovner. The discussion came out of a forthcoming symposium in the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty and took place on campus at NYU. Source
Virginia's New Approach to Regulatory Analysis
February 20, 2023 22:47 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBAdam White and Jace Lington chat with Andrew Wheeler and Reeve Bull about Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s new approach to regulatory policy. They discuss the commonwealth’s new Regulatory Economic Analysis Manual and how it will change the way Virginia regulatory agencies approach their work. Executive Order 19, Development and Review of State Agency Regulations VA Regulatory Economic Analysis... Source
Symposium on Administrative Law in the States
February 09, 2023 14:29 - 1 hour - 80.8 MBOn January 9, 2023, the C. Boyden Gray Center hosted a symposium, “Administrative Law in the States,” with the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and the Harvard Federalist Society. It featured the following participants: -Justice Brian Hagedorn, Wisconsin Supreme Court -Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit -Justice David N. Wecht... Source
Do Public Sector Unions Make Government Unaccountable?
January 24, 2023 15:46 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBAdam White and Jace Lington chat with Philip K. Howard about the problems public unions create for modern governance, the subject of his new book, Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions. They discuss specific challenges faced by executive officials at the local, state, and federal level working with unionized employees and ways to address those issues. Source
The Promise and the Peril of AI in the Workplace
December 15, 2022 17:23 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBAdam White and Jace Lington chat with EEOC Commissioner Keith Sonderling and his chief counsel, Brad Kelley, about how to address the threat of employment discrimination posed by artificial intelligence tools, the subject of their new article in the University of Miami Law Review. They discuss how AI can help make the hiring process easier for employers and how using those tools intersects with... Source
Administrative Law Abroad: The View from Poland
December 12, 2022 19:42 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBWhat do American and European administrative law have in common? How do they differ? And what might Americans and Europeans learn from each other? These questions were on the mind of Prof. Przyemyslaw Ostojski when he visited the Gray Center this year. As a professor at the Academy of Justice in Warsaw and a prosecutor in the Republic of Poland’s Attorney General’s Office, he is an expert on... Source
The FTC's Litigation: In Court and In-House
November 23, 2022 19:27 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBThis episode is from the fourth panel of the Gray Center’s October 14 conference, “The Administration of Antitrust: The FTC and the Rule of Law.” It features the following experts: Ashley Baker, Director of Public Policy, Committee for Justice Justin (Gus) Hurwitz, Professor of Law, Nebraska College of Law, University of Nebraska – Lincoln; The Menard Director, Nebraska Governance and Technology... Source
The FTC and the Roberts Court: The Major Questions Doctrine, Rulemaking, and More
November 19, 2022 00:38 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBThis episode is from the third panel of the Gray Center’s October 14 conference, “The Administration of Antitrust: The FTC and the Rule of Law.” It features the following experts: Jeffrey S. Lubbers, Professor of Practice in Administrative Law, Washington College of Law, American University Thomas W. Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor, Columbia Law School The Honorable Eugene Scalia, Partner... Source
Keynote Speech by William E. Kovacic
November 15, 2022 02:44 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBThis episode is from the Keynote Speech of the Gray Center’s October 14 conference, “The Administration of Antitrust: The FTC and the Rule of Law.” It was given by William E. Kovacic, Director, Competition Law Center; Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy; Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School; former Chairman... Source
The FTC's Independence After Seila Law v. CFPB
November 11, 2022 01:54 - 1 hour - 48.4 MBThis episode is from the second panel of the Gray Center’s October 14 conference, “The Administration of Antitrust: The FTC and the Rule of Law.” It features the following experts: Svetlana Gans, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Jennifer Mascott, Assistant Professor of Law & Co-Executive Director, The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, Scalia Law School Paul R. Source
American Antitrust Law: Where Are We, and Where Are We Going?
November 07, 2022 20:39 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBThis episode is from the first panel of the Gray Center’s October 14 conference, “The Administration of Antitrust: The FTC and the Rule of Law.” It features the following experts: Andrew I. Gavil, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law Thomas Hazlett, H.H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics, Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business, Clemson University Bernard (Barry) A. Nigro... Source
Regulatory Budgeting: Past and Future
October 26, 2022 17:22 - 54 minutes - 49.4 MBAdam White and Jace Lington chat with Anthony P. Campau about his experience with regulatory budgeting during the Trump administration. They discuss Campau’s recent paper, Regulatory Budgeting in the U.S. Federal Government: A First-Hand Account of the Initial Experience and Recommendations for Future Regulatory Budgets, published as part of a symposium in the Harvard Journal of Law & Source
Regulate Big Tech?
October 06, 2022 17:40 - 58 minutes - 54 MBAdam White and Jace Lington chat with NYU Law Professor Richard Epstein and Meta Oversight Board Member John Samples about the debate surrounding whether and how to regulate Big Tech companies. They discuss Epstein and Samples’ recent papers, published as part of the Digital Platforms and American Life project at the American Enterprise Institute, and think about content moderation decisions in... Source
The Pulse of the Court: Separation of Powers, Criminal Law, & Petitions from the Second Circuit
September 26, 2022 17:15 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBJoin Prof. Steve Vladeck (U-Texas) & Prof. Jenn Mascott who discuss Prof. Mascott’s amicus brief in Nordlicht v. U.S. (21-1319), distributed for the Court’s 9/28 conference this week, that addresses Blackstone, Rule 33 motions, and a deep circuit split & Prof. Vladeck’s recently filed petition in Donziger v U.S. (22-274), addressing the Appointments Clause, special prosecutors, and a split Second... Source
The Administration of Criminal Justice
September 14, 2022 16:48 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBAdam White and Jace Lington chat with NYU Professor Rachel E. Barkow about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspending a state attorney for announcing his intention not to prosecute certain cases involving abortion and other politically charged issues. They discuss how prosecutorial discretion works (or doesn’t), lessons the federal government can learn from state criminal law experience... Source
Rediscovering the Roots of Administrative Procedure
August 24, 2022 21:25 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBAdam White and Jace Lington talk with Emily Bremer from the University of Notre Dame Law School about the Administrative Procedure Act and her two recent law review articles about how the original understanding of administrative rulemaking and adjudication differs from current practice. They also discussed the Bremer-Kovacs Collection, which brings together original sources related to the 1946... Source
Major Questions About the Future of the Chevron Doctrine
July 20, 2022 21:36 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBAdam White and Jace Lington, Research Director at the Gray Center, chat with Columbia Law School Professor Thomas W. Merrill about his new book: The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State. They discuss theChevron doctrine, how to think about judicial review of agency interpretations of statutes, and the Supreme Court’s recent decision in West Virginia v. Source
Pulse of the Court: West Virginia v. EPA Reaction
July 01, 2022 17:44 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBProfessor Jenn Mascott is joined by Chad Squitieri, associate at Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher LLP and Eli Nachmany, Senior Research Fellow at the C. Boyden Gray Center, to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. EPA and what it means for the administrative state moving forward. Source
Keynote Conversation with Ambassador C. Boyden Gray
June 08, 2022 00:35 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBBoyden Gray, former White House Counsel and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, chats with Gray Center Co-Executive Director Jennifer Mascott, where he described how Congress has changed over the decades, talked about his experiences as a law clerk at the US Supreme Court and as White House Counsel, and spoke about Justice Clarence Thomas’s legacy on the Court. From the Gray Center’s May 25... Source
Congress, Jurisdiction, Process, & the Institution of the Supreme Court
June 02, 2022 16:51 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBThis panel discussion, from the Gray Center’s May 25 Capitol Hill Conference, consisted of a timely discussion on the leaked Dobbs draft opinion and the implications of this relating to the institution of the Supreme Court. It featured Hunton Andrews Kurth Special Counsel The Honorable Thomas B. Griffith, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner Jeffrey B. Wall, Advisory Opinions podcast host Sarah Isgur... Source