Guns, Cheerleaders, and Polygamy

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

There’s no spring break in the faculty lounge, as Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo turn their attention to a bevy of cases before the Supreme Court. Will the justices strike down New York’s strict gun control laws? Can California force non-profits to disclose their donors? Will an angry high school cheerleader in Pennsylvania change the face of free speech jurisprudence? And has Justice Thomas signaled the beginning of a new era in tech regulation? All that plus a deep-dive on the push for D.C. statehood, a curious look at the history of polygamy laws, and Yoo out-libertarians Epstein.

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0:00.0	But I'm an enthusiastic emoji.
0:02.7	And you guys just have your names.
0:04.4	How boring.
0:11.2	Welcome back.
0:12.2	It's episode 145 from the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast.
0:17.8	Coming to you, as we always do, in the faculty lounge of the Epstein and
0:22.2	New School of Law, where we still require masks, but it's because of the eyes wide shut
0:26.6	parties. I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former White House speechwriter, and co-founder of
0:31.7	Kite and Key Media, but you probably know me from my ear-seeding master class videos, and I am
0:37.1	joined, as always, by the Doc Brown and
0:40.1	Marty McFly of the conservative legal movement. They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and
0:45.0	Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Lawrence A. Titch Professor of Law at
0:49.7	NYU, and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago, and John Yu, visiting fellow at the Hoover
0:56.2	Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley,
1:00.7	and former deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush administration. So, fellas, it's
1:08.5	the very end of April, even here in New York City, which is heretofore been spectacularly uncooperative, it's the very end of April, even here in New York City, which is heretofore been
1:12.5	spectacularly uncooperative. It's legitimately turning into spring. We got into the 80s
1:18.1	yesterday, ever having it in the 40s just last week. People are getting vaccinated. The world
1:23.2	is starting to turn back on. Of course, here on the East Coast, it's just in time for the cicadas
1:28.0	because our existence is a cruel joke. But here's my opening question for you, as we shuffle
1:34.0	back towards normalcy, to use the word, harding word. What is the thing that you have not been
1:41.3	able to do over the last 14 months, the COVID era, that you're most looking forward to getting back to.
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