Political Views
In a speech to the Federalist Society, Brown called the group a "rare bastion (nay beacon) of conservative and libertarian thought" and that the "latter notion made your invitation well-nigh irresistible"
In the same speech, she gave hints of her philosophical foundations. She described private property as "the guardian of every other right". Later in her speech she described collectivism as "slavery to the tribe" and that government was a "leviathan will continue to lumber along, picking up ballast and momentum, crushing everything in its path".
In 2012 she wrote a minority dissenting opinion for the case Hettinga v. United States in which she severely criticized the dominant approach in the U.S. judiciary, that laws involving economic policy deserve “a strong presumption of validity.”
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