Santa on Trial

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It’s a festive year-end session in the faculty lounge, as Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo dissect the latest drama before the Supreme Court. Is Roe v. Wade headed for annihilation? Is California’s attempt to use the logic of the Texas abortion law to go after guns the beginning of 50-state chaos? And speaking of firearms, is SCOTUS about to upend restrictive gun control laws in blue states? Then we leave the court behind for other legal controversies: why are lawsuits against opioid manufacturers failing around the country? Is the Biden Administration obligated to compensate immigrant families who were separated at the border? And, most important of all: exactly how many laws is Santa breaking every year? All that, plus Richard breaks down the economics of marriage, John reveals that he wants a Christmas gift from Vladimir Putin, and we get an after-action report on the professors’ joint trip to Italy.

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0:00.0	Knock three times if you love me.
0:07.0	Welcome back. It's episode 151 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast coming to you, as we always do, in the faculty lounge of the Epstein and U School of Law, which is decked out for the holidays.
0:23.5	Richard has even made his gingerbread Justinian Code, sticks to the ribs.
0:28.4	I'm your host, Troy Senate, former White House speechwriter, co-founder of Kighton Key Media,
0:32.7	and executive director of the North Pole Right to Work Foundation.
0:36.6	And I am joined, as always, by the Donner
0:39.2	and Blitzen of the conservative legal movement. They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten
0:44.0	Bedford Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, the Lawrence A Tisch Professor of Law at NYU,
0:49.1	and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago, and John Yu, visiting fellow at the Hoover
0:53.7	Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, and John Yu, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the
0:54.7	Emmanuel S. Heller, Professor of Law, at the University of California, Berkeley, and former
0:58.8	deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush administration. And fellas, I am curious,
1:07.1	curious about what's happened since last we spoke because when we recorded the last show,
1:12.7	we were just days away from the two of you jetting off to Milan for what was supposedly an academic conference.
1:21.8	I want to know what the Epstein & You Road Show is like.
1:26.7	More specifically, I want the audience to know because I had a source in Milan.
1:32.7	I was receiving texts about this.
1:35.2	And it sounded insane to me.
1:36.5	John, what can you disclose?
1:39.4	Well, first, I'm disappointed that you didn't ask me about my Christmas plans and about Festivus.
1:45.5	Because I'm waiting for us to engage in the airing of grievances and then the feats of strength.
1:51.6	Every episode, John, is the airing of grievances.
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