SCOTUS Wrap-up 2023

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

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🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court ended its most recent term with a bang, and that’s also how Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo are starting this review of the biggest decisions. There’s a split in the faculty lounge over the wisdom of the Court’s affirmative action ruling and we’ll let you decide who gets the better of the argument. Then we move on to the Court’s smackdown of the Biden Administration’s student loan relief plan and the latest in a long string of cases regarding how and whether free speech rights apply in an anti-discrimination context (yes, it’s Colorado … again). Finally, because we don’t want you to think Law Talk has lost its edge we tee up the most important legal question of 2023: Can a bear violate your Fourth Amendment rights?

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0:00.0	Yeah, I can still see John. This is a problem.
0:02.3	Oh, you want meteor?
0:03.5	Yeah, and put some pants on.
0:12.5	Welcome back to the Law Talk podcast from the Hoover Institution coming to you, as we always do, from the faculty lounge at the Epstein and New School of Law.
0:21.0	Now a top 20 school in the rankings.
0:23.9	Those are the cat fancy rankings, to be clear.
0:26.4	I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former White House speechwriter, co-founder of Kighton Key Media,
0:31.1	and repeated Grammy nominee in the Otto Harp category.
0:34.9	And I am joined, as always, by the Rocky and Apollo of the conservative legal movement.
0:40.3	They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:46.3	Lawrence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago,
0:51.5	and John Yu, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller, Professor of Law, at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago and John Yu, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel
0:55.1	S. Heller, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, and former deputy assistant
1:00.2	attorney general in the Bush administration. Gentlemen, good to be back with you. So much has
1:06.1	happened since we last convened that there is no way we're going to get through all of it in the time
1:10.9	that we've got allotted.
1:11.9	So with your indulgence, I'm just going to jump straight in with the rulings we've just
1:16.7	received here in the last couple of days.
1:19.1	But before we even get to the merits, can we start with this?
1:23.6	I realized this morning, as I was preparing for this, I've had this question percolating for you guys since probably as long as we've been doing this.
1:31.6	And, John, I'll direct it at least initially to you just because you've been a clerk at the Supreme Court.
1:38.3	Famously, this time of year, towards the end of June, in the closing days of the term, we tend to get these biggest,
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