“The End of Roe v. Wade”

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In a special episode of Law Talk, professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo do a deep dive into Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court case overturning Roe v. Wade — and take listener questions while they’re at it. They analyze the logic of Justice Alito’s decision, the controversial concurrence of Clarence Thomas, the uncomfortable middle ground occupied by Chief Justice Roberts, and the blistering dissent from the Court’s liberal justices. Plus, what’s next: can Congress write Roe back into law — or, conversely, impose nationwide abortion restrictions? Can states limit the ability of citizens to cross state lines in pursuit of an abortion? All that, plus a brief look at the Court’s noteworthy gun rights case out of New York and the professors’ answer to the question: what’s this year’s most important Supreme Court case that no one is talking about?

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0:00.0	We're doing our conventional form, aren't we?
0:02.3	No, it's totally different.
0:07.8	Welcome back. It's episode 155 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast. I'm Troy Cynick, here with Richard Epstein and John New.
0:16.6	And if you're listening to the podcast version of this broadcast, I should note this is a different
0:22.3	kind of episode for us, not only because Richard has failed to silence his phone, but because we are
0:27.6	recording this as part of the No Dumb Questions series at Rikoshae, where Law Talk started back in
0:34.2	2011. So we welcome everyone from Rikosysh, who's here with us watching tonight.
0:40.2	And I should note, for the audience that is listening, the reason I bring this up is it changes
0:45.4	the dynamic a little bit in two ways. One is that this will actually allow us to take some
0:50.7	questions from the Rookshay audience as we go on. We'll do that in a little bit.
1:00.8	The second is that we can see each other, which is just as disconcerting as you would think it is.
1:07.3	John is in some fancy, highfalutin hotel suite and what I assume is a less reputable part of Switzerland, probably known for illicit financial transactions.
1:13.9	Richard, describe the scene behind you. You're in where?
1:14.6	Chicago, New York?
1:15.5	No, I'm in New York.
1:16.6	The scene behind me is a bucolic picture of little white boats in a wonderful area.
1:21.9	And the reason we have it on the walls, it's nice, but it's especially appropriate now
1:25.6	because we're doing this broadcast at a very
1:28.6	odd hour so that I could tomorrow go off to the Aegean and basically go on a boat that looks
1:33.4	a little bit bigger than those.
1:34.8	These are high class problems you have.
1:36.1	Can I tell you guys what I did?
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