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The Courts Strike Back Against the Bureaucracy Jul 13, 2024

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Michael McConnell is a Stanford Law professor and today we will discuss the Chevron Doctrine. The Supreme Court has just repealed the Chevron Doctrine in one of the Supreme Court’s most important rulings of the year. This decision ends judicial deference for interpretations made by bureaucrats in the Federal agencies. For the past 40 years, the Supreme Court has allowed bureaucratic experts to interpret ambiguous statutes if their analysis was reasonable. No more. Now decision making goes back to the judiciary on how to interpret the law.

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Has Woke Peaked? Jul 05, 2024

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Eric Kaufmann is a Professor of Politics at The University of Buckingham and the author of the book entitled, The Third Awokening: a 12 Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism. Eric uses a different title in the UK for the same book, which is Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution.

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The President Won’t Seek Reelection Jun 29, 2024

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Luke Nichter is the author of the new book entitled The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968. After LBJ decided not to seek another term, the election was wide open for the candidates Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace.

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The Upcoming Naval Battle in the South China Sea Jun 22, 2024

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James Holmes is the J.C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College. Naval technology is changing rapidly, and I want to learn if the US fleet is capable of repelling a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, and what that conflict would look like.

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Abolishing the International Criminal Court Jun 15, 2024

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Eugene Kontorovich is a Professor of Law and the Executive Director of the Center for the Middle East and International Law at the George Mason Antonin Scalia Law School. He also works with the Israeli think tank The Kohelet Policy Forum.

Greg Townsend is a former prosecutor who worked for the ICC tribunals in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Kosovo and Lebanon. He is also a lecturer at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Professor of Practice at Brandeis University, based in The Hague, and advisor on the International Criminal Court’s Advisory Committee on Legal Texts.

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Arresting Netanyahu Jun 08, 2024

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Greg Townsend worked for the ICC tribunals in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Kosovo and Lebanon. I want to learn from Greg what the next steps will be in the ICC judicial process for the Israeli officials. Why they are being charged? And how this will all eventually play out. I also want to figure out whether these international institutions are in the Western democracies interest or if they have been co-opted by bad actors. I want to find out if Israel can legally defend itself if Hamas uses human shields.

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What is Wrong with Copyright? Jun 02, 2024

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David Bellos is a Professor of Literature at Princeton. David has a new book entitled Who Owns This Sentence: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs. I am interested in learning from David the rationale for Copyright. Is the term of 95 years for most copyrights too long? And should we be looking to extend copyright to such things as fashion or should we be restricting its use to derivative works?

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President Lincoln and Immigration May 26, 2024

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Harold Holzer won the Lincoln Prize for his book Lincoln and the Power of the Press. Harold has a new book entitled Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration. I want to learn from Harold why Lincoln encouraged more Europeans to move to the US. Many were Catholics from Ireland and Germany who were generally viewed as potential Democratic voters. How did Lincoln persuade the immigrants to fight and support the Republicans during the civil war?

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Enforcing Non-Competes May 19, 2024

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Michael Wexler is a partner with the law firm Seyfarth where he specializes in trade secrets, corporate espionage, and employment restrictive covenants. I met Michael 12 years ago at the Father-Son event at Camp Horseshoe in Rhinelander Wisconsin and became friends.

Josh Soven is a partner at Paul Weiss. Josh learned his trade working for the US Department of Justice’s Anti-Trust Division and at the Federal Trade Commission. I met Josh in our first class in college an English Seminar called the Malcontent in the Novel. We became college roommates and have been close friends for nearly 40 years.

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Running a Presidential Campaign from Prison May 11, 2024

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Ernie Freeberg is a Professor of American History at the University of Tennessee. Ernie wrote a book entitled Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent.

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