Reason’s Damon Root on the Battle for the Supreme Court

“The libertarian moment that’s happening right now is the
product of 30 years of academic work, legal activism, and lawyers
bringing cases arguing that the role of the courts is to protect
individual rights and to put a stop to government overreach,”
saysDamon
Root, senior editor at Reason Magazine and
author of the new book Overruled:
The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Root recently sat down with Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie to
discuss this battle for control and why today’s libertarians are
fed up with the practice of judicial restraint. Libertarians are
calling for the courts to increasingly police the other branches of
government and snuff out any state or federal law that infringes on
constitutionally protected personal and economic
freedoms.  

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