Damon Root, senior editor at Reason magazine, discusses key themes from his book Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court. It outlines the debate between judicial activism or engagement and judicial restraint. Root offered these comments during an April 2, 2015, presentation in Raleigh for the Triangle Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society.
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