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big issue, big change began in 198 1980 that goes with the
election of ronald reagan ronald reagan brought with them to
washington a very underrated figure in a recent american
history, somehow i don't think gets his due as an important
person. that's edwin meese because edwin meese at first was in
flash and then attorney general. said look, there has been a
liberal agenda at the supreme court. there needs to be a
conservative agenda at the supreme court. what was that agenda?
expand executive power and end racial preferences, speed up
execution, welcome religion into the public sphere, and above
all, reverse roe v. wade and allow states once again to ban
abortion. a big part of the reagan revolution was the arrival of
washington of a group of young and committed conservative
lawyers who wanted to work in that, on behalf of that agenda,
who were two of the best and the brightest of that group? john
roberts and samuel alito. 1970 -- in 1985, a mem