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PREVIEW: NATIONAL GUARD: Colleague Richard Epstein comments on a federal court declaring the Trump administration dispatch of National Guard to troubled LA as illegal. More.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: NATIONAL GUARD: Colleague Richard Epstein comments on a federal court declaring the Trump administration dispatch of National Guard to troubled LA as illegal. More.
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0:00.0

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0:22.3

Conversation with my colleague Richard Epstein of the Civitas Institute

0:25.8

about a decision in San Francisco by a federal judge to declare that the dispatch of

0:32.6

National Guard into Los Angeles following the wildfires was illegal.

0:38.8

This is a challenge to Mr. Trump because he's entertaining this same idea, emergency, National Guard, in other places in the country.

0:49.0

Richard Epstein addresses the matter of it being illegal and what is to be done the next time is Richard Epstein

0:56.3

on National Guard to L.A. More of this tonight. No, no, I'm not talking, but I was saying

1:06.2

before you get to the point where it's Manhattan, you'd like to have some standards which

1:10.5

would tell you what you're supposed to do. If you wait this long, it's Manhattan, you'd like to have some standards which would tell you

1:11.0

what you're supposed to do. If you wait this long, it's going to be a mess. And what you said about

1:15.7

Chicago is, I think, a really very instructive type situation. There could be overall reductions in

1:23.0

crime and have hotspots. And so the question is, could you send the National Guard to the

1:27.3

hotspots even though you're not able to could you send the national law to the hotspots

1:27.9

even though you're not

1:28.5

be able to send it

1:29.3

somewhere else?

1:30.1

That was part of what

1:31.4

Judge Breyer said in this case.

1:33.6

He says,

1:34.0

I'm okay with you

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