(Ex)Presidents’ Day

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The faculty lounge reopens for a special Presidents’ Day session in which Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo kick things off by revealing their picks for the most under- and overrated presidents. Then we’re on to current controversies: will a talkative juror foul the case against Donald Trump in Georgia? Why is Mike Pence employing a novel legal argument to avoid a subpoena in the DOJ’s investigation of the former president? And will Ron DeSantis’ attempt to overhaul American defamation law get its day in the Supreme Court? All that plus the biggest question bedeviling America: what on earth is Professor Yoo wearing?

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0:00.0	John's got to cut the video so we don't have to look at that shirt.
0:03.5	You guys, you guys want one.
0:04.7	I'm going to get the, I think they're not made anymore.
0:07.4	I'm not giving you, I'm not getting you the metal hook, not getting you the metal hook arms, just a shirt.
0:17.2	Welcome back to the Law Talk podcast from the Hoover Institution coming to you, as we always do, from the faculty lounge of the Epstein and New School of Law, an institution that is not only not woke, but in fact barely awake.
0:30.3	I'm your host, Troy Sennick, former White House speechwriter, co-founder of Kighton Key Media.
0:35.7	And if we're being honest, I'm also Banksy. And I am joined, as always,
0:39.7	by the Zach and Screech of the conservative legal movement. They are Richard Epstein, the Peter
0:44.9	and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Lawrence Hedish Professor of Law at
0:49.4	at NYU and Senior Lecture at the University of Chicago. And John You, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. And John Yu, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:56.2	the Emmanuel S. Heller, professor of law,
0:57.7	at the University of California, Berkeley,
0:59.5	and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Bush administration.
1:03.9	Gentlemen, good to be back with you.
1:06.4	I had a topic that I was planning on introducing up top.
1:11.6	I feel like I need to table that for a moment so that we can discuss what the hell John is wearing.
1:18.5	I have never wanted this to be a video program.
1:21.4	John, you described for us, and then I'm going to have Richard audit your description.
1:25.9	What it is that you have chosen to wear to this taping.
1:29.5	Roy, I'm filing a complaint against you for lookism under the University of California's
1:34.6	secret anonymous reporting rules for hate speech.
1:39.3	Oh, look, all I'm wearing is a piece of clothing has stood me in good stead since my college days.
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