CONTINUED HEADLINE: Free Speech, Trump's Proportionality Crisis, and the Independence of the Federal Reserve GUEST NAME: Richard Epstein SUMMARY: Professor Richard Epstein discusses Trump's "all-in" strategy affecting free speech (Jimmy Kimmel, FCC). He s
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🗓️ 20 September 2025
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HEADLINE: Free Speech, Trump's Proportionality Crisis, and the Independence of the Federal Reserve
GUEST NAME: Richard Epstein
SUMMARY: Professor Richard Epstein discusses Trump's "all-in" strategy affecting free speech (Jimmy Kimmel, FCC). He severely criticizes Trump's abnormal attempt via the Supreme Court to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.1917 FED
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| 0:31.9 | I'm John Batchel with my good colleague Richard Epstein, the 2025 recipient of the Henry Toby Award for helping me understand the Supreme Court. |
| 0:43.5 | Because right now, the headline, Donald Trump asked Supreme Court to let him fire Governor Lisa Cook. |
| 0:58.4 | Subhead, governor's legal team asked court to reject requests as her removal, quote, would threaten our nation's economic stability. I'm unfamiliar with the process. |
| 1:05.9 | The federal district judge, I believe, said that Ms. Cook is not fired, and therefore she was a participant and a voter in the decision made by the Federal Reserve within these last hours. |
| 1:11.9 | Now, the Trump administration wants to go right to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:16.8 | Is that a process that's normal? |
| 1:19.5 | No, it's not a process that's normal, which is why it's Donald Trump's process. |
| 1:23.7 | Normal, you have to go through an intermediate court, probably in the District of Columbia, in order to make this thing go. |
| 1:30.3 | And the question is, who's the greater threat to the legal system? |
| 1:34.3 | And the answer is it's not Lisa Cook. |
| 1:36.3 | She was an innocuous, not very visible member of the Federal Reserve Board. |
| 1:40.3 | The idea that her behavior, when she tended to vote management most of the |
| 1:45.0 | time, was a threat to the security of the United States, is absolutely absurd. I mean, maybe you |
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