Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
This is the time for us to think through whether an entity as august as the Federalist Society should embrace a move toward a constitutional conservatism. It strikes me as dangerous in terms of the underlying issues, but more importantly, as a step away from the fundamental insight that the Federalist Society had, which was that judges should be restrained because they lack the democratic pedigree of the political branches. There should be an impulse of judicial restraint, and, unless something is clearly unconstitutional, courts should not be mucking around with legislation and declaring it unconstitutional, no matter how novel it may be.
Publication Citation
36 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 949 (2013)
Scholarly Commons Citation
Katyal, Neal K., "Rethinking Legal Conservatism" (2013). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 1880.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1880