The band is back together again for the 3WHH podcast this week as John Yoo ends his truancy, and we take up the fresh legal and constitutional disputes of the moment, starting with the Supreme Court's recent rulings about mail-in ballots and the Trump Administration's efforts to enlist the Postal Service on behalf of election integrity. From there we move on to the novel proposal to bring back prize courts and authorize old fashioned "privateers" to capture Iranian shipping on the high seas and profit from their cargoes—something United States hasn't done since around the time of Andrew Jackson (Trump's favorite president, perhaps not coincidentally). Then, on to the emerging controversy over Flock cameras, and whether we can trust the government not to abuse them or use them to spy on and harass us.
This week's cameo appearance is from our favorite classicist Alex Priou, who joins us to discuss his terrifically cheeky recent essay, "How to Be an Elitist." And our listener question this week is: why does the president get to select the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Shouldn't that be up to the members of the Court? The president doesn't get to appoint the Speaker of the House, after all, and the language on this matter in the Constitution is incomplete or ambiguous. Hmmm.
As usual, listen or download right here, or from Ricochet or wherever you source your podcasts (and full video and some shorts appear below):
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And then it’s on to the Ricochet podcast, where it was just James Lileks and I holding the fort as Charlie Cooke is down with some kind of summer plague. We kick around Trump’s latest trade feud with Canada, and playing his usual trump (heh) card of renaming Lake on Ontario as “Lake America.” There’s also curiously leaked info on CIA chief John Radcliffe’s mission to Moscow, investigations into the Soros-backed Tides Foundation and the district attorneys responsible for catch-and-release criminal justice, and another rich-kid commie duty-bound to lecture from the family’s waterfront property.
As above, listen or download right here, or on Ricochet:
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Here’s the YouTube full raw video of the 3WHH taping:
And a couple of notable shorts from the episode:
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