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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

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It may be the winter session in the faculty lounge, but things are heating up as professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo clash on a number of today’s topics. On the docket: Was Mitt Romney justified in his impeachment vote? Is President Trump wrong to override the Justice Department on the Roger Stone case? Can states punish members of the Electoral College for defying the will of the voters? Can state and local governments resist the feds’ efforts to curb illegal immigration? And do the sign-stealing Houston Astros have to pay up for ruining a pitcher’s career? All that plus the gang weighs in on Korean cinema, back tattoos, and one of the professors (shouldn’t it be obvious?) getting shushed on a film set.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back. It's episode 130 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast coming to you, as we always do, from the faculty lounge of the Epstein and New School of Law, where we not only encourage parents to bribe their kids' way through the admissions process, we actually require it.
0:23.8	I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former White House speechwriter, and of course recent recipient of best supporting actor in an in-flight security video.
0:32.1	And I am joined, as always, by the Maverick and Iceman of the conservative legal movement.
0:36.9	That one kind of works
0:37.8	because like Tom Cruise, John does all his own stunt work. And like Val Kilmer, Richard has been
0:42.6	known to burn colleagues with cigarettes. They are... What? I thought you were going to say,
0:49.4	hey, it was great seeing you in that Parasite movie. We'll get there. We'll get there. Let me just
0:53.8	introduce you guys first.
0:55.0	Tell the audience that you are, respectively.
0:57.3	Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
1:01.9	Lawrence A. Tisch, Professor of Law at NYU and Senior Lecture at the University of Chicago.
1:07.4	And John You, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller, professor of law,
1:12.7	at the University of California, Berkeley, and former deputy assistant attorney general
1:17.1	in the Bush administration. So, John, you brought this up. We are taping this a couple of days
1:22.1	after the Academy Awards aired, and it occurred to me as I was watching it for my sins,
1:27.1	that we never really talk
1:29.2	about movies here with the possible exception of Richard being unsure about what Star Wars is,
1:34.7	which is makes the reason we don't talk about movies.
1:37.2	But I'm just curious, does this play any role in your life?
1:40.2	When was the last time that either one of you set foot in a movie theater?
1:44.3	The other night? Really? What did you set foot in a movie theater? The other night.
1:45.7	Really?
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