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Media Highlights TV • January 17, 2017 

# Ilya Shapiro discusses judicial abdication and the growth of government at the Acton Institute 

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##### [Ilya Shapiro](/people/ilya-shapiro)

Former Vice President and Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute