We lead this week’s show with a few short news announcements, including new menu items from McDonalds to excite John, and the debut of a new podcast competitor: Hadley Arkes and his merry band at the James Wilson Institute have launched “The ‘Natural Law Moment’ Podcast,” surely goaded by our constant mangling of his central arguments. WE hope to have a crossover episode with Hadley at some early opportunity, if we can ever get our difficult schedules sorted out.
This round-robin format episode features a vigorous discussion of whether Obama and the Deep Staters (sounds like a bad bar-band, no?) are vulnerable to criminal charges for their obviously bad faith behavior in creating the Russia Hoax back in 2016, whether Obama is immune from prosecution because of the ruling last year of Trump v. US, and whether these actions properly rise to the level of “treason” as is alleged by DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
Our second segment reflects on a pair of articles Steve and John wrote for a Civitas Outlook symposium last week on “Statemanship and the American Presidency.” John Yoo’s entry slobbers over the legacy of Andrew Jackson, while
Steve’s entry, “Taming the 21st Century Prince,” is a more philosophical exploration of the issue, and, contrary to the careless calumnies and reckless imprecations of John, does not contain a single reference to the Clean Air Act!
And our final segment delves into a recent bold law review article by a young lawyer friend of ours, Deion Kathawa, entitled “‘We the People’ Are the Last Word on the Meaning of Our Constitution.” His argument is bracing: Congress, because it is the political organ closest to the people, should have the power to override Supreme Court decisions. While agreeing with Kathawa’s premise about the ultimate constitutional sovereignty of the people on account of the first principles of the Declaration of Independence, we’re skeptical about his proposed remedy. What do listeners think? (We hope to have Deion on as a guest at some point soon to defend himself.)
Finally, some new AI-generated 3WHH custom poetry, and more revenge bumper music.
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Interesting discussion, as always. I thought we didn’t want Congress having the last word on constitutionality for the same reason we don’t want the House handling impeachment trials — they are a bit too wedded to the whims of the electorate. Senators, with their six-year terms, can take a longer view. The Supremes, with their lifetime appointments, can, theoretically at least, do what they honestly think is right without feeling pressure from the shifting winds of the electorate.
This non-attorney would like to know why the term sedition is avoided and, IF there is nothing new, as Prof Yoo says, why has former GOP Intel Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz claimed that the docs Gabbard released were precisely what a whistle blower tipped them off about BUT were locked up at Langley since 2017?
Kim Strassel says serious but not actionable.
VDH says it’s MUCH WORSE than Watergate.
2+2=4………..This does not add up.
Am I wrong?
“Levying war against [the United States]” – especially in the 21st Century – need not require armed combat. Barack Obama and Joe Biden were briefed by John Brennan in July of 2016 that the Hillary Clinton campaign intended to set up the Trump campaign as colluding with Russia – a known adversary of the United States. Barack Obama consequently directed and approved of the use of manufactured false intelligence to pursue the goal of disrupting both the Trump campaign and the Trump presidency. By those actions, Barack Obama was (a) attempting the overthrow of the United States government, and (b) adhering to an enemy of the United States.
–John Yoo.
So that’s what the Deep State swamp kids are calling it these days, huh? (smile/wince)
The stock market’s doing well. I realize it could crash tomorrow, but John’s complaints about tariffs aren’t panning out (so what else is new).
Seriously–how many things can he be wrong about?