A Race to the Bottom

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

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🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

While everyone else is holding their graduation ceremonies on Zoom, professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo are still hard at work in the faculty lounge. On this installment: Is the end of the Michael Flynn case justice served or justice denied? Should sexual assault cases be tried on college campuses? Can the government stick the landing on the end of coronavirus lockdowns? Does the Supreme Court’s rejection of the Bridgegate convictions mean a free-for-all on government corruption? And is President Trump about to dodge a bullet on his tax returns? All that plus Epstein and a small child stare out a window, Yoo explores the black market in haircuts, and we finally get to the bottom of the Supreme Court’s mid-oral arguments toilet flush.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back. It's episode 134 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast coming you, as we always do, from the faculty lounge of the Epstein-U School of Law, where we've been requiring masks and gloves for years
0:21.5	because of John's habit of handling polonium in the classroom. I'm your host, Troy Seneca,
0:26.8	speechwriter, and one-time Neil Sadaka hype man, and I am joined, as always, by the Oprah
0:33.3	and Gail of the conservative legal movement. They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford
0:38.5	senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Lawrence Hitch, Professor of Law at NYU, and senior
0:44.3	lecture at the University of Chicago, and John Yoo, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:49.8	the Emmanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and former
0:53.8	Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Bush administration. Manuel S. Heller, Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and former deputy
0:54.3	assistant attorney general in the Bush administration. Fellas, how we doing? How is the quarantine
1:00.3	hair holding up? I have to say, I have engaged in prohibition-era tactics and managed to get
1:08.4	two haircuts since the lockdown. And I am now open for business.
1:13.5	I'm happy to arrange any individual one-on-one haircuts, readings, purchases of retail goods,
1:22.1	anything I can get away with behind a closed door. That's what's happening in California.
1:26.7	I wish I could go work on down in
1:31.1	Fremont with Elon Musk at the Tesla factory and get arrested. Richard, how about you?
1:38.7	Have you just resolved on a, on a scruffy quarantine? How are things looking over there on the
1:42.5	other side of the Hudson from me?
1:48.5	Well, I would say, given the fact that we have Governor Cuomo who shut everything down,
1:54.9	which he should have left open, it has been reasonably well. The real crisis on haircuts doesn't come with me. It comes with my wife. And in fact, I do regard this as an important affair of state, and I think that she's not alone on these particular issues.
2:04.3	But it does show just as how mindlessly interventionist all of this stuff is, because what happens is things are getting better in New York, not so much because of the governor and the mayor who've done many things wrong.
2:16.0	But the rates seem to be going down,
2:18.1	and the percentage of people in Central Park in a nice warm day who are wearing the mask
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