PREVIEW - POTUS: SCOTUS: Conversation with colleague Professor Richard Epstein re the need for age limits for SCOTUS and POTUS candidates -- requiring a Constitutional amendment in light of the extended age of future generations. More tonight.
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🗓️ 12 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:23.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piento Ferries, there is another way. |
| 0:29.0 | This is John Batcheler, conversation with my colleague Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution |
| 0:35.3 | about age caps for senior figures in the U.S. government. |
| 0:40.8 | Richard has a range. He remarks that he's within six months of the age of the |
| 0:45.7 | President of the United States, Mr Biden. Richard does not follow that that is |
| 0:51.8 | forever counted upon for line duty. He does not take on long-term |
| 0:57.7 | engagements himself. He measures that the Supreme Court and the Chief Executive there's reason to limit the age |
| 1:07.2 | to start and finish. |
| 1:10.0 | Is Richard Epstein on the possibility of an amendment to the Constitution to adjust |
| 1:16.4 | ages for very important positions in the U.S. government, looking to a future in which generations will grow |
| 1:25.0 | older and older passing a century and more. |
| 1:29.0 | Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution, more of this later. Thank you. |
| 1:33.0 | Oh, I have so much in favor of that. |
| 1:35.2 | Same thing with respect to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:38.2 | I mean, look, people like myself, I'm basically six months younger than Biden, |
| 1:42.4 | but I think in a little better health mentally, |
| 1:45.0 | and I would never undertake a long-term commitment because you don't know what the future would be. |
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