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Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

It’s a Thanksgiving feast of legal analysis in the faculty lounge (don’t worry, the profs issue opinions on the best side dishes for your holiday meal), as Richard Epstein & John Yoo convene for their first post-election session. On the menu: Do any of President Trump’s legal challenges to the outcome of the election have a chance in court? Are attempts to get state legislatures to change their electoral votes constitutional? Would a president Joe Biden actually have the power to issue a national mask mandate? Will increasingly restrictive COVID rules at the state level withstand scrutiny by the courts? Was Justice Alito out of line to issue politically-charged remarks at the Federalist Society convention? And finally, the question of the hour: does President Trump have the power to pardon himself?

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0:00.0	What kind of bull crap is that?
0:09.9	Welcome back. It's episode 140 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, where there is no student loan forgiveness
0:21.7	or for that matter of forgiveness of any kind. I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former White House speechwriter
0:27.0	and major Indonesian social media influencer, and I am joined, as always, by the Kanye and Jay-Z
0:33.8	of the conservative legal movement. They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Lawrence A. Tish Professor of Law at NYU and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago.
0:46.1	And John You, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and former deputy assistant
0:54.7	attorney general in the Bush administration.
0:57.3	Fellas, how are you?
0:58.8	Fine?
0:59.7	Why are you an Indonesian influencer?
1:02.1	We can't discuss that in this forum, John.
1:04.6	I think you know that all too well.
1:06.1	By the way, like, there are a ton of things, obviously, for us to get to here, but John,
1:09.4	I was specifically reprimanded after our last show because there was a major of things obviously for us to get to here but john i was specifically reprimanded
1:11.4	after our last show because there was a major macribb announcement before we went on air that went
1:17.4	unacknowledged on law talk which i think caused a lot of people to lose faith in this entire endeavor
1:21.7	so in the spirit of satisfying people's john use food. One person suggested to me that a way that we
1:29.2	could make up for this would be to have John you volunteer for us the single best item of
1:36.5	Thanksgiving food. Oh, of course. And carefully. No, it's not even close. It's the cranberry
1:42.1	sauce. Okay, that's an incorrect answer. Richard? No, because it comes out of the can and it retains its can-like shape even when it's not even close. It's the cranberry sauce. Okay, that's an incorrect answer. Richard?
1:44.4	No, because it comes out of the can and it retains its can-like shape, even when it's out, and it's totally artificial, but it tastes so good and must be spread over everything.
1:53.9	That plus, of course, you all know, kimchi.
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