Check Your (Executive) Privilege

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

It’s the holiday season in the faculty lounge and the subpoenas are hung by the chimney with care. On this episode, Professors Epstein and Yoo do a deep dive into the strengths and weaknesses of the impeachment case, the shortcomings of the Inspector General’s report on the Russia investigation, and the greatest legal question of our time: can you impeach an ex-president? All that plus Richard breaks down the economics of Christmas, John calls for civil disobedience in the Berkeley food scene, and Franklin Pierce finally gets called to account.

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0:00.0	I have a 1927 article by sovereignty and property by Morris, Raphael Cohen.
0:06.2	Wow.
0:06.6	That's the kind of thing that they've got to send in a brown paper bag.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome back.
0:18.6	It's episode 128 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast.
0:23.2	And we are coming to you, as we always do, from the faculty lounge of the Epstein and New School of Law.
0:28.5	We're on this Christmas, as on all before, we continue to defend right-to-work laws at the North Pole.
0:34.3	I'm your host, Troy Sennick, former White House speechwriter and composer of the Cars for
0:38.3	Kids jingle, and I am joined, as always, by the Comet and Blitzen of the conservative legal
0:44.0	movement. They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover
0:48.8	Institution, the Lawrence A. Tish Professor of Law at NYU and senior lecturer at the University
0:53.9	of Chicago, and John
0:55.7	Yu, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the
0:59.7	University of California, Berkeley, and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Bush
1:05.1	administration. Well, fellas, welcome. Happy holidays. Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah.
1:09.6	I'm tempted to invoke Boxing Day just to trigger John.
1:12.9	Oh, to 26.
1:15.1	Oh, for Christ's sake.
1:18.2	Do I need permission of some Lord or Lady to do boxing thing?
1:22.6	No, no, no, no, no. It's a very nice thing. You two monarchists.
1:26.8	No, no, no. Boxing Day has nothing to do with the English monarchy. Well, listen, no, it's a very nice... You two monarchists. No, no, no.
1:28.0	Boxing Day has nothing to do with the English monarchy.
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