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#68 – Steven Teles on what the Conservative Legal Movement Teaches about Policy Advocacy

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The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement

If your policy goal is to ban books, then as you said, there isn't an obvious dial. And even if I were to pass a policy that tries to ban progressive books, I will quickly find myself with a lawsuit or in the judicial courts because it interacts and intersects with all these like previously big body of laws. It turns out that policies and actions from many decades ago will have a strong bearing on whether I can get that like policy passed or not. The story never begins with what I talk about as the liberal legal network, right? That's the status quo ante.

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