Greece Is the Word

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The men of Law Talk reconvene between their respective journeys to Greece and there’s a very full docket. On this episode: could President Trump’s conversations with Ukraine lay the predicate for impeachment? What’s the proper role for the U.S. in the Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict? Is the FDA within its rights to crack down on vaping? Should California be able to go its own way on regulating automobile emissions? Can the president solve West Coast homelessness? And why has New Mexico made it a little more dangerous to get married?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 125 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast.
0:18.0	We are coming to you, as always, from the faculty lounge of the Epstein and
0:21.8	New School of Law, America's only institution of legal education where vaping in the faculty
0:26.5	lounge is actually compulsory. I'm your host, Troy Sennick, former White House speechwriter,
0:31.5	as well as an understudy and a cruise ship production of rent. And I am joined, as always,
0:36.8	by the Edison and Tesla of the conservative
0:39.2	legal movement. They are Richard Epstein, the Lawrence A. Tish Professor of Law at NYU,
0:45.1	senior lecturer at the University of Chicago, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:49.9	and John U. The Emmanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley,
0:54.7	visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in Bush administration.
1:01.7	All right, fellas, well, this is an inter-Agean episode of the podcast.
1:06.5	We are taking the rare step of recording this on a Sunday evening because this was the only window
1:11.0	we had between when I returned from Greece and when John departs for Greece, and I know what
1:17.3	you're thinking, and yes, we are laying the predicate for a bespoke small batch law talk-branded
1:23.2	Uzo.
1:23.6	I'm going to recite an ode to a Grecian earned.
1:28.8	So come this time next year, you will be able to pick up Epstein and use Greek fire, wherever fine spirits are sold.
1:35.8	We're going to be in Greece, my wife and I come this summer.
1:38.5	So everyone's doing it.
1:39.8	Everybody.
1:40.3	We just, that ingrate, just this.
1:43.1	I'll warn them.
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