California Dreamin’

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The faculty lounge moves west, as Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo both check in from sunny California (while resident cat-herder Troy Senik stays behind in frigid New York). On this installment: Did the Supreme Court’s parsing of the vaccine mandate pass muster? Have we figured out Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett yet? Can Donald Trump be held civilly liable for the January 6 riots? Did the Supreme Court sell the former president’s claims of executive privilege short? Is reforming the Electoral Count Act the most essential element of election reform? Is higher education a cartel (there’s a split in the faculty lounge)? And why did a Georgia sheriff trying to keep trick-or-treaters safe fall afoul of the First Amendment?

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0:00.0	Okay, I'm going to basically turn my camera off and then Troy's going to pretend to make us look good.
0:13.3	Welcome back. It's episode 152 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast coming to you, as we always do, in the faculty
0:22.7	lounge of the Epstein and U School of Law, where like many institutions of higher learning,
0:27.3	we have dropped the standardized tests, and all admissions are now jousting based.
0:33.3	I'm your host, Troy Sennick, former White House speechwriter, co-founder of Kite and Key Media and one-time Denny's Somalier.
0:40.5	And I am joined, as always, by the Brady and Gronk of the conservative legal movement.
0:46.5	They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Gerson Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:51.5	the Lawrence A. Titch Professor of Law at NYU and senior lecturer at
0:55.8	the University of Chicago. And John Yoo, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel
1:01.9	S. Heller professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, and former deputy assistant
1:07.9	attorney general in the Bush administration. So fellas, got to be honest,
1:14.5	I'm a little depressed here because I am the one member of the law talk team who is a native
1:21.3	Californian. There is such a thing, born and raised. And yet I am the only member of the team,
1:27.2	including our stalwart producers,
1:29.0	Scott Emmergitt, who lives out there, who is not recording this podcast from the Golden State.
1:35.1	The low here tonight in the New York City area is supposed to be 14 degrees. And meanwhile,
1:40.6	you guys are out on the West Coast, frolicing, taping episodes of uncommon knowledge,
1:46.1	smoking weed at Baker Beach, I'm assuming.
1:48.6	Whoops.
1:49.1	So anytime I romanticize my home state these days,
1:53.7	I am told California is a hellhole now.
1:57.7	Don't even bother.
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