Impeachable Offenses

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The faculty lounge has been closed for renovations, but Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo are back to break down the biggest legal stories of the summer: What will come of the Biden Administration’s decision to defy the Supreme Court over the eviction moratorium? Who can (or can’t) mandate vaccines? Will a recent ruling from the Court buttress Republican states trying to change their voting laws? Is a Mississippi case the long-awaited culmination of the fight over Roe v. Wade? Why did antitrust efforts against Facebook get smacked down in federal courts? Is there any hope for Donald Trump’s class-action suit against the big tech companies? And finally, the professors reveal what they’d do if given the chance to amend the Constitution.

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0:00.0	Are we supposed to turn our cameras off, Scott?
0:02.5	Yeah, so I don't have to look at you against the Las Vegas sky.
0:16.7	Welcome back. It's episode 148 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast. Coming to you, as we always do, from the faculty lounge of the Epstein and You School of Law, where, for the safety of our students, we have reimposed the mandate that they don't ask Richard about Roman law. I'm your host, Troy Senate, former White House speechwriter, co-founder of
0:37.7	Kight and Key, and tireless advocate for bringing back
0:40.4	town planning to the Olympics. That was
0:43.1	actually a thing. Look it up. And I am joined,
0:45.6	as always, by the Rosencrantz and Gildenstern of the
0:48.7	conservative legal movement. They are Richard Epstein,
0:51.6	the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover
0:53.9	Institution, the Lawrence A.irsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:54.8	the Lawrence A. Tish Professor of Law at NYU, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago,
0:59.9	and John Yoo, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel Heller Professor of Law
1:04.1	at the University of California Berkeley, and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General
1:08.9	in the Bush administration.
1:12.8	Gentlemen, welcome back.
1:13.8	It's been a while.
1:16.0	I feel unusually out of touch with you guys.
1:18.7	I don't know anything about what your summers have looked like.
1:20.5	So can I just start with this? Because every four years, I like to raise this and just stand back and watch the carnage when I get the answer. John, how did you enjoy the
1:28.9	Olympics? They sucked. Actually, it was interesting. I did not realize how much the crowd made a
1:38.5	difference in enjoying the Olympics. It was great because America won the most medals and won the most golds, as it has for
1:45.8	years now. But I found the events kind of dull and boring, and so I didn't really watch it as much
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