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Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo are kicking off the fall semester with a bang, as they invite classroom participation in the form of questions from Law Talk listeners. On a wide-ranging episode, they cover the controversies over the Texas and Mississippi abortion laws, the crisis on the southern border, vaccine mandates, and a smattering of questions on everything from long-dead Supreme Court justices to the possibility of a new constitutional convention to revising the Declaration of Independence. You’ll hear all the wisdom and insight you’ve come to inspect from the professors plus a potentially career-ending gaffe from our intrepid moderator, who assures us he will submit to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

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0:00.0	Good luck, Johnny Boy.
0:10.4	Welcome back. It's episode 149, the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast, coming to you, as we always do,
0:18.7	in the faculty lounge of the Epstein News School of Law, recently
0:22.0	re-accredited by the Estonian Bar Association. I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former White
0:27.7	House speechwriter, co-founder of Kighton Key Media, and composer of the as-yet-unstaged Gomer Pyle
0:33.7	the musical. And I am joined, as always, by the Hall and Oates of the Conservative
0:38.8	legal movement.
0:43.5	They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover
0:47.3	Institution, the Lawrence A. Titch Professor of Law at NYU, and senior lecturer at the
0:51.9	University of Chicago, and John You, visiting fellow at the Hoover of Chicago and John U.
0:54.3	visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller, professor of law at the
0:58.5	University of California, Berkeley, and former deputy assistant attorney general.
1:03.4	In the Bush administration, gentlemen, welcome back. We haven't talked for a bit.
1:08.0	It's been like six or seven weeks. So catch me up.
1:10.9	The single most interesting thing you've done during that time.
1:14.6	And John, I will start with you because last time we talked, I think you were just about to go out and shoot guns in the Nevada desert.
1:22.7	Oh, wow.
1:23.5	That was a while ago.
1:24.6	That wasn't so exciting, I have to say, because there's nothing to shoot at.
1:27.9	It was just desert. I mean, you just shoot and you hit sand. They got to do something. They got to
1:33.2	upgrade in Vegas. But you know what was neat was I was staying at Vegas for the Claremont Institute.
1:39.6	They run these summer programs. And they were having the NBA Summer League, which I'd never really heard
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