The future of the regulatory state

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🗓️ 12 January 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Gillian Metzger of Columbia University and David Bernstein of George Mason University explain how President Trump, Congress, and the courts may challenge the executive agencies that govern our daily lives. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast. Email us at [email protected]. Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by David Stotz and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome
0:09.8	to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:13.4	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate
0:18.9	information about the U.S. Constitution on a non-partisan basis. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. It is
0:25.4	great to be back and I'm sitting here in our We The People Studios at the
0:29.8	Constitution Center with my old friends, Jillian Metzker, who is a high school
0:37.5	classmate and David Bernstein a law school classmate, both are America's
0:42.0	leading experts on the administrative state.
0:45.2	Jillian Metzger is Stanley L.
0:47.1	Fold Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.
0:49.4	David Bernstein is the George Mason University Foundation professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School
0:56.2	at George Mason University.
0:58.0	We've just come from upstairs where we've had a superb discussion with a group of federal judges
1:02.0	who are here for a continuing
1:04.4	legal education seminar on the future of the regulatory state. We had a great
1:08.6	discussion which was a good dress rehearsal for our chat this morning. We're here to talk about the future of the
1:15.9	regulatory state under President Trump. Jillian and David, welcome it is so great to
1:20.4	have you. Thanks for having us. Great to be here.
1:22.4	Jillian let us jump right in. so great to have you. Great to be here.
1:22.9	Jillian, let us jump right in President Trump
1:26.2	at a series of press conferences and announcements
1:31.0	has talked about the need to cut down on federal regulations during his first hundred days.
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