The Girl With the Curl

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The fall semester is under way in the faculty lounge as Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo take us through the latest legal controversies. On the syllabus: The many twists and turns of the FBI’s investigation into Donald Trump — Was the raid justified? Can the president declassify documents at will? And what’s a special master anyway? Then, we turn to the Biden Administration’s plan to forgive college debt. Does the president really have the authority to make such sweeping policy unilaterally? And, if not, does anyone actually have standing to challenge the move in court? Finally, a look at some of the legal complexities of a post-Roe world. Can the White House force states to allow certain abortions that are otherwise prohibited under state law? A lawsuit in Idaho and a new policy from the VA will put that question to the test.

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0:00.0	John?
0:01.1	I think he was having an audio issue.
0:02.9	Yes, sorry.
0:03.4	Some guy is driving a very loud boat outside of my house.
0:08.7	That's a loud sound.
0:10.1	Okay, now it's going on.
0:11.0	These are real 1% problems, John.
0:20.2	Welcome back to the Law Talk podcast from the Hoover Institution coming to you, as we always do, in the faculty lounge of the Epstein New School of Law, where we are proud to report that there were no learning losses from COVID, because there were no learning gains prior to it.
0:35.9	I'm your host, Troy Senneneca, former White House speechwriter,
0:38.5	co-founder of Kite and Key Media, and now no longer the only member of this Troika to have not
0:44.0	written a book. We're on that later. And I am joined, as always, by the Anna and Elsa of the
0:50.7	conservative legal movement. Only to visit a therapist, if either of you get that reference, they are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford
0:57.7	Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Lawrence Hattish Professor of Law at NYU,
1:02.6	and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago, and John Yu, visiting fellow at the
1:07.6	Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller, professor of law at the University of
1:11.1	California, Berkeley, and former deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush administration.
1:17.3	So, fellas, we have a lot to get to. I have to start you with Donald Trump and the FBI's
1:23.8	rating Mar-a-Lago to go through the former president's papers. And let's start here,
1:28.6	because we've not talked about this since it happened. There were a lot of people, including a
1:33.7	lot of people who are generally sympathetic to Trump, who said when this happened, boy, this is
1:39.8	really upping the ante. It's now been about a month since that incident took place. So, Richard,
1:46.7	I'll start with you. At that remove, having learned some more details in the interim,
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