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Strict Scrutiny
The book was highlighted as an essential resource for grasping the Christian Legal Movement and the broader conservative legal strategy, with the author and co‑author appearing as expert guests. Hosts explained that it detailed the religious right’s use of cultural capital, supplemental education, and parallel institutions to reshape law and legal culture. The discussion conveyed strong endorsement of the work as a key text for listeners interested in this area.
Episode: SCOTUS Dodges the Question of Emergency Abortions
This book, about the Christian Legal Movement, was mentioned as an essential book for understanding the conservative legal movement.
And the second guest host is returning guest Amanda Hollis-Bresky, who is the expert on the conservative legal movement and the author or co-author of the essential books Ideas with Consequences on the Federalist Society and Separate but Faithful on the Christian Legal Movement and Takeover of the Courts.
Episode: How the Federalist Society Took Over
This book, co-authored with Professor Joshua Wilson, explored alternative strategies the religious right pursued to change the law, such as infiltration, parallel alternative approaches, and supplemental approaches, using case studies like Christian billionaire patrons building their own law schools.
Amanda is also the co-author with Professor Joshua Wilson of the recently published, separate but faithful. The Christian writes radical struggle to transform law and legal culture, which builds on a study they conducted with funding from the National Science Foundation.
In separate but faithful I refer to this as cultural capital And academia certainly plays a role and the media plays a bigger role.
So the Federal Society didn't set out to build its own new institutions. It created a supplemental education and network through their clubs and their organizations within existing institutions and so again, we call that a middling approach.