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Strict Scrutiny
The speaker was discussing the "interest convergence" theory and how it applied to a case about the no-fly list, suggesting that the case provided an opportunity for conservative judges to criticize the Biden administration while simultaneously validating their own views.
This is all to say that this case presented what someone like Derrick Bell might call interest convergence, which is to say that it provided the courts conservatives with an opportunity to own the Bid...
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The speaker was discussing the "interest convergence" theory and how it applied to a case about the no-fly list, suggesting that the case provided an opportunity for conservative judges to criticize the Biden administration while simultaneously validating their own views.
This is all to say that this case presented what someone like Derrick Bell might call interest convergence, which is to say that it provided the courts conservatives with an opportunity to own the Biden administration while also vindicated.
Is that what Derrick Bell meant by interest convergence?