#Bestof2021: 1/2: The constitutional trouble with suspending evictions. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
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🗓️ 3 December 2023
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https://www.hoover.org/research/eviction-moratorium-bends-both-facts-and-law1942 Dallas
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| 0:00.0 | It's nearly time to make magical moments to create festive feasts that delight the family |
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| 0:36.3 | Visit booths.co. UK. This is CBS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Professor Richard Epstein, a senior fellow to Hoover Institution. |
| 0:58.0 | He teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago, writing most recently defining ideas for Hoover about the moratorium on evictions |
| 1:07.3 | that has been in place, I read and follow Richards reporting, since the beginning of the |
| 1:12.3 | pandemic crisis. |
| 1:14.0 | The puzzle here is that most recently a judge, |
| 1:17.7 | district court judge Dabney Friedrich, |
| 1:19.8 | has said that the CDC, the original driver for the eviction moratorium, the CDC exceeded its authority, |
| 1:30.0 | this is a tangle of competing authorities in the government. |
| 1:35.0 | So I turned to Richard only because Richard has introduced me over these years |
| 1:41.0 | to the idea of takings and I have his book at long last |
| 1:46.1 | takings private property and the power of eminent domain and in reading the |
| 1:52.0 | just the beginning pages I see what the quandary is. |
| 1:56.0 | Private property is part of natural rights. |
| 1:59.4 | Natural rights is what the individual possesses, quite independent of what the state says. |
| 2:04.6 | The state is there to protect the individual rights and under natural rights, not to take away |
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