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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Globull Threats to Liberty

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This special mid-week holiday edition of the 3WHH makes up for the lost ground over the weekend, when schedules prevented the bar from opening at any of the usual meet-up times. Steve, this week's host, and Lucretia grill John Yoo about his latest article, "Globalization's Challenge to American Constitutionalism," published at the sparkling new website of the Civitas Institute, where Steve also appears for the first time today on a separate subject, "The Future of Conservatism in America."

While Steve and Lucretia completely agree with John about the insidious threat of "internationalism" to our constitutional soverignty, they detect some tergiversations on John's part that seem to offer—or so they say—too many concessions to progressive jurisprudence.

From there discussion turns to the drone epidemic, with Steve offering two complementary theories about what is going on (neither of which involve foreign actors, stealth sky ships, or aliens), and Lucretia offers her drama review for Broadway's newest stage sensation, who happens to wear judicial robes in her regular job. A dilemma indeed.

And about that ABC News libel settlement with Trump, more theories to chew over. Today the Wall Street Journal reports that "Disney’s legal team was concerned that given the current makeup of the Supreme Court, appealing a negative district court ruling could have jeopardized the landmark New York Times v. Sullivan ruling that protects the media in defamation cases." This was Steve's hypothesis about the settlement.

Host:
Steve Hayward

Discussion (3)

  • Full Size Tabby@FullSizeTabby

    State regulation of commerce does not necessarily preclude a uniform national market.

    The state electorate will not (for the most part) let its state representatives prevent state residents from getting products from other states based on some unreasonable state regulation. No matter how much Arizona state politicians might want to encourage a prospective Arizona automobile manufacturer, Arizona residents will demand that they be able to buy Teslas assembled in California or in Texas, Hyundais assembled in Alabama, Fords assembled in Kansas, etc.

    And Arizonans won't tolerate some protectionist Arizona regulation that annoys other states so much that those states prevent Arizonans from selling Arizona grown produce, or Arizona raised beef, or Arizona manufactured microchips into those other states. So there's a self-limiting constraint on excessive state regulation of commerce.