Location: The Heritage Foundation's
Allison Auditorium
The most disturbing development in
American law in modern times has been the transformation of the
U.S. Supreme Court from judicial arbiter into avid
policymaker. The Court has (mis) interpreted the Constitution
to require governmental hostility to religion and religious
practices - rather than neutrality, to impose radical pro-abortion
agenda without exception, to undermine critical property rights, to
expand the power of the federal Leviathan at the expense of
individual rights, to infringe political speech while protecting
pornography, and to allow guilty criminals unnecessarily to go
free.
But thirty years ago the freedom-based
public interest law movement set out to restore the original
meaning of the Constitution, oppose judicial activism, and
challenge the radical agenda of liberal litigators. Their
heroic efforts have helped change the legal culture in America and
win important legal victories in such critical areas as school
choice, property rights, religious freedom, freedom of speech, and
workers' rights. This exciting and never-before-told story is
chronicled in Bringing Justice to the People, edited by Lee
Edwards with a special foreword by Ed Meese and featuring the
contributions of nine leading legal experts and scholars who are
modern-day Sons of Liberty.
More About the Speakers
Edwin Meese III
The Heritage Foundation
Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
The Heritage Foundation
Kenneth Boehm
National Legal and Policy Center
Roger Clegg
Center for Equal Opportunity
John Eastman
Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
Thor Halvorssen
First Amendment Scholar and former head of FIRE
Jordan Lorence
Alliance Defense Fund
William H. Mellor
Institute for Justice
Ronald Zumbrun
The Zumbrun Law Firm
(Formerly with Pacific Legal Foundation)