host: curt levey?est: i do think the supreme court has too much power and it would be good to find a constitutional way to restrain that. there have been a number of proposals. one is that perhaps the super majority of congress or super majority of the states could override supreme court decisions. it has come to this. the founding fathers meant for the supreme court to a trophy the law, not be the super legislature, but if the supreme court refuses to comply with the constitutional limits, then there has to be some way to fight back. we cannot just -- suppose the supreme court issued a decision that the last thought was absurd. i don't think the left would say, [indiscernible] how conservatives feel. we have to find a constitutional way to restrain the courts. guest: i hear you. after the brown vs board of education decision was issued in the 1950's, they were a group of numbers of congress that wanted to adopt the resistance. they issued something called the southern manifesto and argued that they wo

and curt levey who has decided to stand in for nelson lund who was scheduled and wasn't able to make it. we appreciate your coming because you're the person who will most defend the ruling in bush v. gore and we need to hear your voice today. he was long time executive director of the committee for justice and now works for freedom foundation. he's supported many republican appointments to the supreme court and as i said, will probably be our real defender of bush v. gore among the panelists. i thought i'd start kind of in a breezier way, just to get all of our voices heard before we dig into the real substance. i wanted to ask each of the panelists, what really resonates. what do they remember most vividly from that period. recall something that sticks in your mind, just to bring us back to it. i'm glad to see so many people in the room who i know were there at the scene and who remember what happened. but just for the few of you who are thinking, who was there on the court, because it's changed. let me just offer as a reminder. it was an opinion, wasn't signed by anyone specificall