The Professors Strike Back: The 1st Amendment on Campus, ICC's Overreach, and Presidential Immunity

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

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🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Richard and John respond to the clearing of student protests at major universities and judge their claims to the validity of their encampments. They also discuss the likelihood that the International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and whether President Biden will continue the pressure that his predecessor did on the court. Finally, they make predictions about the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on Trump’s insistence that presidents have absolute immunity – during and after their terms.

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0:00.0	John, I can't fail looking at you.
0:14.2	Welcome back to Law Talk at the Hoover Institution.
0:17.3	I am your Law Talk guest host, Tom Church, still filling in for new father, less than new father,
0:23.4	Troy Seneca, recently, still new father. We're coming at you from the faculty lounge of the Epstein
0:28.3	and U Law School, and I'm joined by the stars of the sixth best legal podcast for non-lawyers,
0:33.9	according to some people on the internet. That is, starting with Richard Epstein.
0:37.9	Richard is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford senior fellow here at the Hoover Institution. He's the
0:42.7	Lawrence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU and is a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.
0:48.4	And of course, the other half is John U. John is a visiting fellow here at the Hoover Institution.
0:52.8	He is the Emmanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and he's a former deputy assistant attorney general in the W. Bush administration. And John, I actually want to start with the People's Republic of Berkeley because, of course, a few weeks ago, the law school dean Chemerinsky had a bit of a dust up at his
1:11.7	house when some invited law school students tried to start giving a speech and protesting and he
1:17.0	kicked them out. And it led to quite a kerfuffle. But John, I'm here to blame you a little bit
1:21.8	because you teach these students. I want to know. How do they not understand what constitutes
1:26.8	free speech and allowable protest?
1:29.3	I have to say, I don't recognize any of those students ever having taken any of my classes.
1:35.1	So they avoided your classes. That's probably not surprising. That's probably not surprising.
1:39.5	But if they had been there, I'm sure I would have said things that would cause them to go even more crazy than anything Irwin did, although I'm not Jewish.
1:48.2	And gosh, I really think if you look at the poster, although I'm Jewish adjacent, I think is the technical term.
1:57.0	Right. Having grown up in the Philly suburbs and enjoyed dining out at many Jewish delis.
2:03.1	But I really do think this is anti-Semitic if you look at the poster that was put up about
2:08.7	that showed Irwin as this kind of, you know, this terrible.
2:12.4	Yeah, bloodthirsty, yeah, it was terrible, terrible.
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