Social Media, IVF, Trump, and the Politics of Disgorgement

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The faculty lounge is invaded by a guest host who pits Richard and John against one another, starting with their differences in opinion over when the government should regulate social media companies. While they predict the same Supreme Court ruling, they disagree on what constitutes government involvement in key dominated industries. Next Richard and John point to the natural consequence of Dobbs on the nation’s abortion laws, as they handle the recent Alabama IVF ruling that has the left-wing preparing fundraising and election materials for November. Finally, they turn to Mr. Trump’s legal woes, first with the Supreme Court’s possible ruling on his immunity for the January 6th case and ending with some agreement on the civil fraud penalty handed down in the Empire State.

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0:00.0	I think I'm special, so I'll keep mine.
0:12.1	Welcome back to Law Talk at the Hoover Institution.
0:15.6	I am your Law Talk guest host, Tom Church, filling in for Troy Seneca.
0:20.7	We're coming at you from the faculty lounge of the Epstein and you Law School, where the speech is free and you, the audience, get what you pay for.
0:28.9	Here on Law Talk, I'm joined by the inestimable Richard Epstein, who is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow here at the Hoover Institution.
0:42.0	He's the Lawrence A. Tish Professor of Law at NYU and is a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. And of course, I'm also joined by the incalculable John U, a visiting fellow
0:47.4	at the Hoover Institution, the Immanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California
0:52.4	at Berkeley. And he's a former deputy assistant
0:55.2	attorney general in the W. Bush administration. A gentleman, it's good to be back with you since the
1:00.7	last time I stepped in for Troy, which was a measly 10 months ago, and we were discussing,
1:05.4	if you'd like to take a guess, Donald Trump, which we're going to do again today, as he simply
1:10.3	can't keep himself out of the limelight, which, you know, unexpected, I suppose.
1:17.0	No, but I also want to go over today.
1:18.5	You got to up your game.
1:19.7	Tom, you got up your game.
1:21.1	You didn't have one of the Wiley Coyote and Roadrunner of the law.
1:25.5	So you got the whole show to think of by the end of the show.
1:28.8	Oh, boy. Put me on the spot. You and Epstein are like, yeah, the Siskel and Iber or the Abbott and Castello.
1:34.5	Notice I'm using people from Richard's generations. Not ours. Not ours, right, John. Yeah.
1:40.3	You guys are 20 years apart. Let's keep it straight. Well, listen, I also want to go over regulation of social media, Alabama, the Alabama's IVF controversy.
1:50.9	And again, I think there's just too much Trump stuff we have to get to.
1:54.6	I want to, Richard, is there an American politician who's had as much legal trouble as Donald Trump while also maintaining as much success?
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