42: Executive Power and Constitutional Constraints Guest: Professor Richard Epstein Professor Richard Epstein analyzes an executive order creating a five-hundred-person National Guard rapid response force per state for civil disturbances. He argues this impro
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🗓️ 1 November 2025
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| 0:37.4 | I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Professor Richard Epstein teaches law at NYU in the University of Chicago. He's a fellow at the Civitas Institute, Austin, Texas at the University of Texas. I ask his attention to news that comes from this version from ABC, the headline, states to have rapid response |
| 0:56.9 | national guardians for civil disturbances by January 1st. This is, in keeping with an executive |
| 1:03.7 | order that we're just learning about. The original order was signed in August by the president. |
| 1:09.7 | A memo of that order, internal memo, it said, |
| 1:14.7 | is dated October 8th. That internal memo is what the Guardian newspaper obtained, |
| 1:20.3 | unexplained how it did it. The memo is now denied by the Department of Defense nor the |
| 1:26.5 | White House. |
| 1:33.6 | The idea here as a National Guard is to train as many as 500 troops per state to serve as part of a rapid response force focused on civil disturbance missions. |
| 1:40.5 | This is, each state will be required to have a force ready by the start of next year, to have 500 personnel assigned to the force. |
| 1:49.9 | In addition, we have details about the training. Under a new plan, those existing forces that already respond to natural disasters and civil disturbances. |
| 2:00.7 | We'll have more training focused on |
| 2:02.5 | dealing with civil disturbances to be in line with the executive order. There's much to learn |
| 2:07.6 | here, but the larger picture is what can be presented as a national domestic army. |
| 2:16.6 | Richard, a very good evening to you. |
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