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Jade CraigGuestWilson StriblingHostLucien SmithPanelistBrandon JonesPanelistGood to be surrounded by attorneys for this program because we're talking about so many legal issues.
And it's interesting, this concept of rights versus expectations and so on and so forth.
In your own lives with law degrees, do you often find that people confuse the two, that people think things are rights that aren't actually rights? Brandon?
I encountered this as a parent when kids think they're owed things that they're not.
But yeah, you know, in practice, it was not uncommon to deal with clients who have this concept of the way things should work in business or in life.
And so, you know, in that situation, our job is to find out if they're right or find out if we should be asking for that right or figuring out if there's just another
Yeah, I think in the sort of regular, typical legal practice, you oftentimes have people who make the reasonable assumption that the court's job is to come to a fair resolution of your dispute.
And that is not always what – if we were sitting around saying what a fair way to resolve something would be, it's not always the same outcome.
I think at the constitutional level, people often assume that the Supreme Court's job, similarly, is to figure out the right policy or the right direction to go in.
But at the end of the day, their job is to figure out what the Constitution says, and oftentimes that doesn't automatically give you the policy outcome that you would prefer.
I was telling these guys off air that I had a chance to meet Justice Scalia back in the 90s when he came to Mississippi College.
And I can't recall if he said this from the stage in Nelson Hall or if it was during one of the conversations we had when he wasn't speaking.
Good to be surrounded by attorneys for this program because we're talking about so many legal issues.
And it's interesting, this concept of rights versus expectations and so on and so forth.
In your own lives with law degrees, do you often find that people confuse the two, that people think things are rights that aren't actually rights? Brandon?
I encountered this as a parent when kids think they're owed things that they're not.
But yeah, you know, in practice, it was not uncommon to deal with clients who have this concept of the way things should work in business or in life.
And so, you know, in that situation, our job is to find out if they're right or find out if we should be asking for that right or figuring out if there's just another
Yeah, I think in the sort of regular, typical legal practice, you oftentimes have people who make the reasonable assumption that the court's job is to come to a fair resolution of your dispute.
And that is not always what – if we were sitting around saying what a fair way to resolve something would be, it's not always the same outcome.
I think at the constitutional level, people often assume that the Supreme Court's job, similarly, is to figure out the right policy or the right direction to go in.
But at the end of the day, their job is to figure out what the Constitution says, and oftentimes that doesn't automatically give you the policy outcome that you would prefer.
I was telling these guys off air that I had a chance to meet Justice Scalia back in the 90s when he came to Mississippi College.
And I can't recall if he said this from the stage in Nelson Hall or if it was during one of the conversations we had when he wasn't speaking.
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