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Lots and Lots of Provocative Audio

By E.L. Lipman

During the month of January, the Federalist Society ? both as a national organization and as a local, Minnesota Chapter ? hosted a series of thought-provoking events, with audio recordings that are now on-line.

Among the dynamite megabytes for your mp3 player are:

n A discussion on the Judicial Confirmation process with Senator Arlen Specter (Ranking Minority Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary) and an all-star panel of confirmation-watchers from the media, the academy, advocacy groups and the Bar. The audio clip is accessible here.

n A set of audio clips from the Society?s 10th Annual Law Faculty Conference ? which includes very interesting panel discussions on the proper scope of Presidential power, reforms that have followed the U.S. Supreme Court?s 2005 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London and the constitutionality of the District of Columbia?s handgun ban.

(Among the throw-downs that occurred during the discussion on Presidential authority, for example, was the claim that ?the non-delegation doctrine is prissy.? And while I am not sure that administrative lawyers, as a group, are prone to bar-fighting, if we were, that one seems like fighting words to me?. ?Hey, bub! Just whose reading of Article I, Section 1 are you calling prissy?!?....?)

n Closer to home, was the Society?s Minnesota Chapter hosting of a lecture by Todd Gaziano, Director of the Heritage Foundation?s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Gaziano spoke this past Wednesday on the proliferation of criminal sanctions for purely regulatory lapses. Because of a computer glitch, I was not able to capture the first 5 or so minutes of his remarks ? entitled, The Criminalization of Almost Everything: Why Liberals and Conservatives Should be Worried ? but the worthwhile remainder, and the Question and Answer session that followed, is accessible here.

Full post as published by Within the Scope on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).