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Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

Tips For Everyone: A Supreme Court Roundabout

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9677 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Richard Epstein and John Yoo discuss the last two weeks of Supreme Court rulings covering challenges to Second, Fourteenth, and Sixteenth Amendments. They also preview the upcoming challenge to Chevron Deference and dive into disputes among the originalist thinkers on the court. Finally, they weigh in on criticisms of recent disclosures by Justice Thomas and future plans for a future Trump Administration from groups like Project 2025.

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0:00.0

Mr. Church, take us away.

0:07.4

Welcome back to Law Talk at the Hoover Institution.

0:10.2

I'm your Law Talk guest host, Tom Church, still doing my best Troy Senate impersonation.

0:15.8

We're coming at you from the faculty lounge of the Epstein NU Law School,

0:19.6

where I'm joined by two of the legalist

0:22.4

of Eagles, starting with Richard Epstein.

0:25.0

Richard is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow here at the Hoover Institution.

0:29.3

He's the Lawrence A. Tish Professor of Law at NYU, and is a senior lecturer at the University

0:34.3

of Chicago.

0:35.4

And of course, I'm joined by John U. Across the Bay.

0:38.3

John is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. He's the Immanuel Heller, professor of law,

0:43.0

at the University of California at Berkeley, and he's a former deputy assistant attorney general

0:48.2

in the George W. Bush administration. Richard, John, how are you? You ready for a little

0:53.0

Supreme Court roundup?

0:58.9

Supremely ready. It's like a half, it's like a, what's a half roundup? A half round up.

1:03.9

A half round up? Order round up, because they're not done. All right, a Supreme Court round around.

1:09.4

Let's start with the bumpstock case so we can talk some guns. This is Garland versus Cargill.

1:12.7

The Supreme Court has ruled that bumpstocks are not machine guns. This is an interesting case, YouTube, because I think it plays with the ideological

1:18.2

expectations a little bit. This ruling went into place after a major gun shooting in Las Vegas

1:25.3

under President Trump, under then President Trump.

1:28.3

And so I find it interesting because it's the conservatives that struck this down.

1:33.3

So take me through this here for a little bit.

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