#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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🗓️ 18 June 2024
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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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