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#POTUS: Abrupt dismissal of the US Air Force Board of Visitors in 2021 & What is to be done? Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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#POTUS: Abrupt dismissal of the US Air Force Board of Visitors in 2021 & What is to be done? Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-military-academies-and-a-biden-power-grab-stirrup-air-force-trump-98220abb?mod=opinion_lead_pos8#comments_sector

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0:00.0

This is a series,

0:05.0

this is CBSi in the world.

0:07.0

I'm John Bachelor.

0:08.0

Heidi Serra, appointed to a three-year term,

0:11.0

the Board of Visitors to the U.S. Air Force Academy, the date December 2020, the end of the Trump administration.

0:20.1

The Biden administration, within moments moments canceled that term and ever since there have been questions about that decision and the authority of the administration to cancel a term. This has been taken to the Defense

0:36.9

Department, it's been taken to the White House, and now it's in front of the

0:40.0

courts and helping me is Professor Richard Epstein who's very much involved in this

0:44.8

matter writing most recently at the Wall Street Journal the military

0:48.8

academies and a Biden power grab goes the headline.

0:52.7

Trump may do the same thing if the Supreme Court doesn't intervene.

0:57.6

Professor, a very good evening to you.

0:59.3

You are a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution,

1:01.2

teach law at NYU in the University of Chicago, and in your spare time,

1:05.8

you puzzle through this fate of Heidi Storrup.

1:09.5

What he is the Board of Visitors to the US Air Force Academy.

1:13.5

Good evening to you.

1:15.0

Well, there is in the United States something

1:16.8

which is loosely a fifth branch of government.

1:19.6

Generally, it works pretty well,

1:21.0

so nobody pays any attention to it. The first three branches

1:24.6

are the president, the executive branch, the legislature, and the judiciary.

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