West Coast, Best Coast

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

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🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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It’s a lively session in the faculty lounge, as Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo are both coming to us from California and … let’s just say that Richard seems to be enjoying life in the sun. First up, a guided tour through Donald Trump’s legal travails: the questions about whether he’ll be allowed on the ballot, the controversy over presidential immunity, and the debate over whether a second Trump Administration will pose a unique threat to the rule of law. Then we delve into a controversy over executive power regarding Joe Biden: is the president overstepping the limits of his office with attacks on the Houthis in Yemen? Some senators think so. Finally, we stop off at the Supreme Court to examine the case that might upend the administrative state — and we also examine why former Supreme Court clerks are getting half-million dollar signing bonuses. All that, plus wisdom from Richard’s Uncle Albert, an In-N-Out update from John (would it be the California episode without it?), and a (mean-spirited and factually inaccurate) discussion of why Senik didn’t go to law school.

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0:00.0	John has been my glorious host at Berkwood.
0:02.7	This is the last time we're bringing you, Richard, if you act out like this whenever you have a good time with us.
0:07.4	Oh, yes, whenever I'm in public.
0:17.7	Welcome back to the Law Talk podcast from the Hoover Institution, coming to you, as we always do, from the faculty lounge of the Epstein-U School of Law, a campus where speech is always free and usually intemperate.
0:30.7	I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former White House speechwriter, co-founder of Kite and Key Media, and nevertheless snubbed by the Academy for my work in Barbie.
0:38.2	And I am joined, as always, by the Lenny and Carl of the conservative legal movement.
0:43.1	They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:48.6	the Lawrence Hitch Professor of Law at NYU, and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago,
0:55.3	and John You, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, and former deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush administration.
1:05.4	Fell is good to be back with you, although not back with you in the sense that you all are back with each other because
1:11.9	you are both, you're not coming to us from the same room, but you're coming to us from the same
1:16.1	general location because Richard is doing his annual trapes around Northern California.
1:23.1	And I have to tell the audience, just a little peek behind the curtain here. It's already been clear by the
1:28.4	10 minutes that preceded the start of the taping that California, Richard, is a very different
1:34.6	species from East Coast, Richard. You came in hot today. I want to know what Richard Epstein on
1:42.6	the mean, the mean streets of Berkeley looks like.
1:45.5	I mean, are you out there, are you out there busking, you know, with a joint behind your ear?
1:49.6	What is West Coast Richard?
1:51.7	John, maybe you should answer this because you've been in the presence of West Coast Richard recently.
1:56.1	Yes, John, you answer that and describe my new dynamic personality.
1:59.8	Yeah, listen to him. did you hear that just this is
2:02.6	he's irrepressible even more so than usual he's all i can say is it's hard to imagine but i think
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