Give Me the Epstein!

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Summer school is starting early in the faculty lounge. On this episode, Professors Epstein and Yoo have a full agenda: Are Minnesota prosecutors setting themselves up for a fall in the Derek Chauvin case? Should the Supreme Court have taken a case that could have allowed it to pare back qualified immunity? What should we make of Justice Gorsuch’s surprising turn in the LGBT discrimination case? Or Chief Justice Roberts siding with the court’s liberals in subjecting California churches to strict COVID protocols? Does President Trump have the power to stop John Bolton’s book from being released? And, finally, can we find eternal truths about intellectual property law in the battle between a couple of authors of wolf-themed erotica? At least one professor thinks so!

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0:00.0	Welcome back. It's episode 135 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast. Come to you, as we always do, in the faculty lounge of the Epstein and U School of Law, the world's second institution of higher learning where the corpse of Jeremy Bentham attends the board
0:21.5	meetings. That's a true story. Look it up. I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former White House speechwriter
0:26.2	and author of the popular YA series Young Millard Fillmore. And I am joined, as always,
0:32.3	by the Leno and Letterman of the conservative legal movement. They are Richard Epstein,
0:37.0	the Peter and Kirsten Bedford
0:38.6	Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Lawrence Hitch Professor of Law at NYU, and Senior Lecturer
0:44.5	at the University of Chicago, and John U., visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:50.2	the Emmanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and former
0:54.1	Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Bush administration. So, fellas, halfway through
1:00.5	2020, and we've had a global pandemic, an economic collapse, and widespread civil unrest. I'm
1:07.7	taking bets for the second half of the year. My money is on the super volcano under Yellowstone. So, John, you're out there in Northern California. Richard,
1:16.9	you're back in Chicago now having abandoned those of us in the New York City area. I was
1:22.0	disappointed to learn that you flew back. I was hoping you were making a Mad Max Fury Road-style
1:26.4	trek out of the city.
1:31.9	But, I mean, boys, what's life like around you?
1:36.6	If I were to transport someone from five years in the past to your city,
1:41.1	would they have a sense that America in 2020 is a place in chaos?
1:42.8	Well, I'll answer the question.
1:48.0	I don't think they saw it as a case in chaos, but you walk outside, you see perfectly sane people of all ages sizes and description, wearing masks, it's looking in strange places,
1:52.0	and you can't quite figure out what it is that they're hiding from, and then you go into the
1:56.0	various stores and you're supposed to put them on. I walked in a sweat today in order to get to the beauty parlor to get my haircut for the first time in umpteen years.
2:04.6	And the first thing they did was they put a temperature thing on my forehead.
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