Rise of the Micro-Tyrant

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

With Professors Epstein and Yoo deemed essential workers, the faculty lounge reopens for another round of COVID-19 analysis. On this episode: Can President Trump override state efforts to keep economies shuttered? Are there limits to the intrusive restrictions being enacted by the nation’s governors? Do churches (or abortion clinics) get special treatment during shutdowns? How can the Chinese government be held to account for the spread of coronavirus? What was the right response to the USS Roosevelt controversy? Was President Trump justified in removing a troublesome inspector general? And does a new report show it’s time to blow up the FISA proces? All that plus a Law Talk examination of Tom Brady’s new IP play, a sampling of avian life in John’s neighborhood, and we play “Which Prof is More Likely to Snap in Lockdown?

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0:00.0	What's the problem?
0:01.0	I think I'm the problem.
0:12.5	Hello and welcome back. It's episode 133 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast coming to you, as we always do, in the faculty lounge
0:22.0	of the Epstein and U School of Law. Yes, while all the other law schools are doing their courses on
0:26.2	Zoom, we're the only one found exclusively on chat roulette. I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former
0:31.5	White House speechwriter, and guy who's really dining out on the fact that social distancing
0:35.5	reduces the appropriate around having a restraining order against you. And I am joined, as always, by the Martha Stewart and Snoop Dog
0:43.4	of the conservative legal movement. I won't tell you who's who, but Richard is on his way to Chino
0:47.7	rolling on the gray goose. They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at
0:53.0	the Hoover Institution, Lawrence Hitch, Professor of Law at NYU, and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago,
1:00.0	and John Youe, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley,
1:06.0	and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Bush administration.
1:11.9	So, fellas, how are you holding up?
1:13.9	I was wondering as I was preparing for this, which of you is closer to going stir crazy
1:18.6	right now?
1:19.0	And I feel like it's probably John.
1:22.1	But that's because of his general idleness.
1:24.6	Well, here was my calculus, Sean.
1:28.2	You're sort of a crypto dandy.
1:31.6	I feel you really need a nice restaurant a couple of times a week.
1:36.1	You're probably dying for a crisp haircut.
1:38.0	I feel like Richard has this very rich interior life.
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