Three Supremely Unlikely Changes to the Court | Libertarian: Richard Epstein | Hoover Institution
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🗓️ 31 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Libertarian Podcast from the Hoover Institution. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm your host Tom Church and I'm joined as always by the Libertarian Professor Richard Epstein. |
| 0:18.9 | Richard is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow here at the Hoover Institution. |
| 0:23.2 | He's the Lawrence A Tish Professor of Law at NYU, |
| 0:26.3 | and he's also a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. |
| 0:29.5 | Today we're going to overhaul the Supreme Court. |
| 0:32.3 | You hear that, Richard? |
| 0:33.1 | Article 3. |
| 0:34.1 | I hear, and we're gonna get it done in 30 minutes. |
| 0:35.8 | I think so. |
| 0:36.3 | Article 3 is dead to us, some people. |
| 0:39.9 | Maybe President Biden and many Democrats |
| 0:41.8 | who had previously flirted with expanding the Supreme Court. |
| 0:45.0 | Instead, we're not hearing about that right now, or instead we've got a proposal laid out in the Washington Post by President Biden, I think motivated by three things. One, the |
| 0:54.8 | recent presidential immunity ruling ruled 63, Conservatives on one side or |
| 0:59.6 | Republican appointed recently made against Justice Thomas of improper behavior and gifts and we'll talk about that. |
| 1:14.4 | But Richard, let's take these one by one. |
| 1:16.4 | The first one is actually a constitutional amendment proposed by President Biden. |
| 1:21.0 | It's called the No One is Above the Law Amendment and would explicitly say there's no immunity for crimes a former president committed while in office. |
| 1:30.0 | You know, Richard, I'd love to know, do you think there's some validity to the complaints against the court's presidential immunity ruling? |
| 1:37.0 | And they're always complaints. I know there's complaints, but tell me, are some of them do you think valid? And you know Article five is the remedy if people don't like |
| 1:45.8 | What's going on here at constitutional amendment? What do you think? Well, I mean one of the immunity question is very easy to state but it's one of the hardest questions ever to resolve. |
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