Nothing Is Benign

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Impeachment is on the syllabus as the faculty lounge reopens its doors. In this episode: Does the Democrats’ pivot from ‘quid pro quo’ to ‘bribery’ add up? Has the first week of witnesses changed either professor's mind? And when exactly would a White House have the authority to hold up foreign aid? All that plus analysis of what’s most likely to compel the release of the Trump tax returns (hint: it’s not the case that looks headed for the Supreme Court) and the strange case of the Equal Rights Amendment, which is either one vote away from being added to the Constitution or already dead on arrival. We’ll let the professors explain.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome back. It's episode 127 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast, and we're coming to you, as we always do, from the faculty lounge of the Epstein and U.S. School of Law, rated number one by U.S. News and World Report amongst law schools accredited in the Seychelles.
0:23.6	I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former White House speechwriter and proprietor of a series of asbestos-laden co-working spaces.
0:30.4	We pass the savings on to you.
0:32.5	And I'm joined, as always, by the Katie Perry and Taylor Swift of the conservative legal movement.
0:38.6	I don't feel great about myself sometimes.
0:40.4	They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:46.2	the Lawrence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago
0:51.5	and John U.
0:53.0	Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and John Yu, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:54.9	the Emmanuel S. Heller, Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley,
0:58.9	and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Bush administration.
1:04.4	And fellas, I'm sort of surprised that you're available and not still milling around after parties,
1:10.7	because we are recording
1:11.6	this just on the heels of the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention, where I'm
1:16.9	told, because I've never actually been invited to one of these, prices just go up every year
1:21.4	that passes, guys, that you guys are royalty, so much so that there was a Fed Sock post on Instagram the other day, highlighting
1:31.0	the opening talks for the dinner there. Two people featured therein, Mitch McConnell and
1:36.9	Richard Epstein.
1:38.5	Rich, Richard is the real monarch of the proxie. I am dofant. I'm the pretender to the throne.
1:46.2	I'm just like the guy I never, I'm the guy who's stringing.
1:49.0	I'm like the, I'm the Prince Charles.
1:51.4	And he's the Queen Elizabeth of the Federal Society.
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