The Bottle Episode

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In a Law Talk first, Professors Richard Epstein & John Yoo and host Troy Senik are gathered in the same studio to kick off their tenth year of the podcast. On this episode: Can Congress rein in President Trump’s power to pursue military action against Iran? What was Nancy Pelosi trying to accomplish by withholding the articles of impeachment? Can the Justice Department compel Apple to create a backdoor on encrypted devices? And is Utah’s effort to rescind a personalized license plate a potential First Amendment violation? All that and more as the faculty lounge reopens for 2020.

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0:00.0	Welcome back.
0:08.1	It's episode 129 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast.
0:13.0	And we are not coming to you, as we usually would, from the faculty lounge, because this time we are at an actual university.
0:20.2	The three of us for, I think,
0:21.5	the first time in the history of this show in a studio together at Stanford from the mothership
0:27.3	at the Hoover Institution. And it's a very different dynamic in person. I, for instance, did not
0:33.2	know John was Asian before today. Ah, really? I didn't realize. I didn't know you had that ugly scruff you call a beard on.
0:40.3	And I did not know that John wore silky, shiny suits with stripes on them for ordinary broadcasts.
0:46.3	And I didn't know Richard couldn't sing.
0:48.3	No, I knew that from many, many occasions.
0:51.3	And I'll prove it right now if you can.
0:53.3	No, no, no, no, no, no.
0:54.8	I should introduce the participants.
0:56.5	I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former White House speechwriter, probably better known by my stage
1:00.8	named Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
1:03.3	And I am joined, as always, by the Tupac and Biggie of the conservative legal movement.
1:08.5	That one's right in your wheelhouse, Richard.
1:10.1	I don't know. They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover
1:15.4	Institution, the Lawrence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU and Senior Lecturer at the University
1:20.6	of Chicago. And John Yu, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller
1:25.9	Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley,
1:29.0	and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Bush administration.
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