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Free Speech or Insurrection? The Legal Case Against Trump Holding Office Again | Libertarian: Richard Epstein | Hoover Institution

The Libertarian

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

History, News, Politics

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Does the 14th Amendment bar Donald Trump from ever holding office again?

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0:00.0

This is the Libertarian Podcast.

0:05.0

This is the Libertarian Podcast from the Hoover Institution.

0:08.0

I am your host Tom Church, and that Libertarian is Professor Richard Epstein.

0:13.0

Here at Hoover, we know Richard as the Peter and Kirsten Bedford senior fellow.

0:17.0

He's also the Lawrence Aetish Professor of Law at NYU,

0:20.0

and he's a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.

0:24.0

Richard, we have a lot to discuss following last night's

0:27.7

GOP debate, which did not include former President Trump.

0:31.7

Now President Trump is currently, as we're recording this being

0:34.6

booked at Fulton County Jail but he still leads the polls for the GOP nomination

0:40.6

however there has been some talk in the legal community that I need to get your learned wisdom on.

0:48.0

And that is surrounding this question of whether former President Trump is even eligible to hold federal office anymore.

0:54.4

I think you know what I'm talking about.

0:56.1

Oh, I do know what you're talking about.

0:58.9

I think the world has gone in very strange ways.

1:01.6

What you're doing is you're talking about a position which has been

1:04.1

taken by many people. Lawrence Tribe and Mike Lutig, one a very prominent

1:09.0

constitutional law professor, the other very distinguished former judge,

1:13.2

and then my colleague at Chicago, Will Boad,

1:15.4

and I think he wrote this article,

1:17.8

who did he write it with?

1:19.7

Paulson, Michael Paulson, right?

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