What We Saw at the Revolution

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Pack a lunch because this is the longest session we’ve ever held in the faculty lounge. In the final Law Talk of the Trump Administration, we break down all the events of the last week: Congress’s attempt to stymie the tallying of the electoral vote, the role of the Vice President, whether President Trump should be removed from office, a seeming breakdown in the chain of command, and a reaction to the president’s attempt to pressure Georgia’s Secretary of State. Then it’s on to the incoming Biden Administration, as the professors react to Merrick Garland’s nomination to be Attorney General, the push for statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington D.C., and the prospect of Justice Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court. Then we cap it all off with the professors’ final judgments on the Trump Administration. All that, plus breaking news from Twitter and McDonald’s and … less-than-breaking news from the annals of Roman Law.

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0:00.0	Is that all?
0:08.0	Welcome back. It's episode 142 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast coming to you, as we always do, from the faculty lounge of the Epstein and New School of Law.
0:18.7	A facility only breached by protesters once, and that was a
0:21.9	particularly surly group that just wanted more Roman law content. I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former
0:27.1	White House speechwriter, and guy who's angling for that Kardashian time slot on the E-network,
0:31.8	and I am joined, as always, by the Han and Chewy of the conservative legal movement. They are
0:36.9	Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kierston Bedford Senior Fellow at the conservative legal movement, they are Richard Epstein,
0:38.4	the Peter and Kierston Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Lawrence A. Tish Professor
0:42.2	of Law at NYU and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago, and John Youe,
0:47.8	visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University
0:51.5	of California, Berkeley, and former Deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush administration.
0:57.9	And guys, I mean, maybe you abandon the host chat in a time like this, but, you know, we don't only inform a nation.
1:05.7	We also entertain them.
1:07.4	And when the universe gives us content, I'm not going to turn it away, which is why before we turn to the chaos that is gripping the country, I feel duty bound to turn to an important matter of international relations, directed, of course, at a resident foreign policy analyst, Mr. John Yoo.
1:22.9	John News broke over the holiday break, and you were, of course, the first person that came to mind
1:28.1	that McDonald's in China is testing at a new sandwich comprised of two spam patties topped by crushed
1:38.2	Oreos and mayonnaise. Now, the virtue of doing a program like this for as long as we've done it
1:43.5	is that you
1:44.9	really learn the contours of your colleague's personalities, which is why I know how to phrase
1:48.3	the resulting question. Do you regard this as the best McDonald's idea ever or the best
1:53.9	McDonald's idea of all time? You know, you say this to me like, I didn't already know about this.
2:02.0	Of course, I'm on top of all pork-related products, and their introduction is a McDonald's menu.
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