Debating Our Judiciary

Can We Search for the Center?

June 22, 2010, 7:30pm – 8:30pm

About This Event

John D. Podesta of the Center for American Progress, Douglas Holz-Eakin of the American Action Forum, and John F. Harris of POLITICO invite you to join them for a debate on our judiciary.

Elena Kagan's upcoming confirmation fight promises to put not just one Supreme Court nominee in the spotlight, but also the entire federal judiciary. As a Democratic president appears poised to place his second selection on the Supreme Court in just two years, where are the courts headed? Does the recent direction of the Supreme Court represent a corrective to the liberal Warren Court, or are conservative judges succeeding at rewriting modern constitutional law?

Please join us and two experts on the judiciary—former Bush administration Assistant Attorney General Rachel Brand and former Clinton administration acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger—for a debate and lively discussion on the philosophical battle for the courts.

POLITICO Editor-in-Chief
John F. Harris
moderates a debate between:

Rachel Brand
Former Assistant Attorney General in the Bush administration
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP

vs.

Walter Dellinger
Former acting Solicitor General in the Clinton administration
O'Melveny & Myers, LLP

Location

The George Washington University
Jack Morton Auditorium
805 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052