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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

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The faculty lounge has reopened for its holiday party, but there’s still plenty of business to dispense with. On this final installment of 2020, Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo are tackling a stocking full of issues: Does a suit from the Texas Attorney General stand any chance of being the Hail Mary that the Trump campaign needs? Can the courts rein in the Michael Flynn pardon? Who’s the least menacing candidate to be Joe Biden’s Attorney General? Does the Supreme Court’s smackdown of Andrew Cuomo represent a turning point on COVID restrictions? Will the justices save President Trump’s plan to exclude illegal immigrants from the census? Has the era of government by executive order gone too far? And finally, how, is it possible that Gavin Newsom can unilaterally end the automobile as we know it in California?

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0:00.0	Yeah, start with John since he's the searing profit on all things great and small.
0:12.4	Welcome back. It's episode 141 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast coming to you, as we always do do from the faculty lounge of the Epstein and
0:22.2	New School of Law, not subject to lockdown orders because we're incorporated in the Seychelles.
0:27.5	I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former White House speechwriter, and let's be honest, probably the next
0:32.2	head coach of the New York Jets. And I am joined, as always, by the Gilbert and Sullivan of the conservative legal movement.
0:39.3	They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:44.0	the Lawrence A. Tish Professor of Law at NYU, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago,
0:49.2	and John Yu, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller Professor of Law
0:53.8	at the University of California, Berkeley Emmanuel S. Heller, Professor of Law at the University of
0:54.7	California, Berkeley, and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Bush administration.
1:00.7	So, fellas, welcome to the final installment of the year. I should note just in the spirit of
1:06.1	transparency that I am doing the show whilst in the midst of both a case of COVID and a kidney stone,
1:12.2	which works out well for our listeners because I will occasionally want to scream in pain,
1:15.9	but I won't have the lung capacity to do so.
1:19.1	So, boy, do want our medical reports to do.
1:23.5	I do not. I do not. You're under no obligation.
1:26.2	Mine's fine. Let me ask you this. How are you?
1:29.8	Richard, I will start with you. We're recording this at the start of December.
1:34.0	What do holiday preparations look like in the Epstein household?
1:38.5	Well, Hanukkah is coming on Friday, and there will be a select family gathering to deal with some of that at my daughter's
1:45.1	house. Otherwise, it's going to be, I think, a pretty bleak holiday for us and for everybody else.
1:50.3	We may venture off somewhere, but we're not quite sure exactly where, why, or when, because
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