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It's eight twenty three on five ad WCCHS the Voice of Charleston. I'm
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Jeff Jenkins. It's a Thursday morning. That means Harvey Peyton and is here
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or the Peyton Law Firm in Nitro. And that means that the lines are
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open for you. Three O four three four five fifty eight fifty eight.
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Three oh four three four five fifty eight fifty eight lines are open in Harvey.
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Yes, we do have winter. We do indeed that winter, and
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it's actually exacerbated in its intensity by the phenomenon of a warming globe. I
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mean, weather is affected significantly in the sort of the unpredictable dips of the
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jet stream and the polar of varttax pretty clearly related, at least in scientific
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analysis, to a warming planet, at least in the northern hemisphere. We've
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got the effects. But you know, we've seen this before. I was
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thinking this morning. Can remember when I was a kid, Maybe it was
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in about nineteen fifty nine or sixty, and that's a long time ago,
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obviously, that where I grew up on the west side of Saint Albans,
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right across the road and down the hill was Tacket Creek backwater. It was
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a backwater of Coal River, essentially created in the mid thirties when the Windfield
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lock and dams were put in. They backed the river up and the water
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is only a couple of feet deep, you know, flooded the bottom land
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down there, and it froze solid. It was so cold without snow that
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it just the backwaters froze solid, and there were these ice feathers all over.
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You ever seen that phenomenon all over the ice where the crystallized little bit
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of moisture was there. You had cold weather drafts moisture out and it was
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great ice skating and you can walk across cold river. You walk across Canar
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River on the ice. I didn't do it because I was afraid the ice.
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But you see, but you saw the Kanar River froze over many times.
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Oh yeah, yeah, not every year, but yeah, probably,
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yeah, four or five times in my lifetime. I've seen the Canar River
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at Saint Albans are out of the ridge froze and so that people were walking
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out on the ice. And you know, as late as the nineteen seventies,
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I think the Ohio River froze at the Point Pleasant, which is a
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pretty big stretch of water. And of course there was you know, in
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Saint Albans at the time, there was the hot newest subdivision where people my
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dad referred to as car about millionaires and the guys who all started good hirely
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jobs and got promotions, moved out of Warden's Park and went out to quote
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River Lake Estates where there were two little ponds about the size of this building
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that was the river lakes. But they froze solid. So when I was
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in high school. You know, it was a big deal. You'd run
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out there and everybody would skate ice skate on the we weren't you know.
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The girls were always better than most of the boys at ice skating for whatever
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reason. On the day, I was up in Chicago once in the park
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down by the Bean, and they set up a big ice skating rink there
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in the park right off South Michigan Avenue, and there were a couple of
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guys that skated for the black Hawks that showed up. Of course, they
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were big celebrities. You talk about skate Oh yeah, sure, oh man
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fast and maneuver, and of course the crowd just spread out and watched these
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guys because they were just phenomenal. So let's put kind of a damper on
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things here. I hope it doesn't put a damper on the Hunting and Fishing
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show, which is coming out of the Civic Center. I heard Chris Chris
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launch his return to the air this weekend. Oh yeah, I heard him
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this morning and off for five weeks with this hip replacement. I talked to
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him yesterday and he's all good to go. He'll be back on the Morning
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News Monday night. That's a really great show folks who haven't been there.
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And it's more than about just tiding and fishing. It's about the outdoors.
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You know. There was a gentleman from Saint oh It's named George Lanham who
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with another group of dedicated hunters and fishermen, was sort of foundational and that
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show taking place. George's son was in my high school class and George's daughter
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was a couple of years behind me. We used to go visit George all
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the time, not because we wanted to see George, because we wanted to
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see sit. I had his sister who was clearly a box of chocolates.
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It's a great thing. It's going to be cold, but you've gotta have
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outfitters from all over Canada the Great Lakes. I think they probably have some
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African safaris, non hunting safaris, I mean photographic trips that you can look
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at and book. I of course, if you're a gun enthusiast, it's
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just the place to be. Knives, I mean, you know, all
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those things, all those things. I was there for a couple of years,
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worked to booth for UH Trout and Limited. We had information about trout
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streams in West Virginia and fly tying and things of that nage. We haven't
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done it in a while. You can't just you can't do everything right and
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the pride which reminds me. Next week and probably the week after, there's
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not gonna be anybody from Peyton Law firm available for asked the expert. I
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don't know what we're gonna do. I guess Tom's gonna work with Sean to
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see what happens. We've got to case Tom does to try it down in
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Cable County, and it's hard to try a major lawsuit. It's just one
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lawyer. I mean, two heads are better than one if one's a sheep,
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said right, and he always needs something done. So I'm going to
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be riding the hard seed or what they refer to a second chair. Does
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that start Monday? Jerry selections Tuesday? Jerry selection starts Tuesday days. I
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understand it, And given the number of witness it's probably going to take all
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next week and maybe the week after and maybe more than that. You never
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know. Once you start a trial, they take on a life of their
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end. As you well know. You know we've been sometimes they're shorter.
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Remember the blanket ship case was how long is this defense gonna last? So
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I had a hit. I had an inkling that it wasn't gonna last long
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because I got to know the lawyer that represented blanket Ship pretty well. I
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mean just in passing and the all the way down there for weeks. Yep,
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is your defense gonna take any longer than the smoke brake. He's just
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looked at me in the smiles, so you never know. I know what's
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gonna They're not gonna put him on. I mean, that's that's made sense
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under the strategy they had. So the legislature hasn't done much yet with regard
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to the legal system. You know, the important thing that's coming up this
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year is not in the legislature. It's at the ballot box in May.
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The public. They need to be aware. The voters need to be aware
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that the judges are all up for election, the magistrates. There are I
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think two seats on the Supreme Court of Appeals that are going to be filled,
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and they are filled in the primary. This is not one where there's
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a well, well I'll skip the primary and see who gets the nomination and
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decide who to vote for in November. No, the field of candidates is
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the field that people that file. That's a non partisan race, so it's
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not a Democrat Republican function. It's a little troubling to me. This morning
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I heard the in view of the fact that we've got judicial elections coming up,
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is that the Republican State Committee is going to consider on Saturday a change
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to their party rules which would close their primary to independent voters. Well,
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you know that's Is it appropriate to do that the first time in a year
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where you've got juditional elections coming up which are decided in the primary. I
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mean that discourages Let's face it, I'm a Democrat, born a Democrat,
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died Democrat. Not going to change. I'm not going to register independent.
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I mean, I don't have many candidates to vote for in the primary.
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But I can see where people like me, fairly conservative Democrats not too attuned
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to the national party line, take a look at the ballot. There are
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people are if they had a serious race on the Republican side, I would
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vote for in the primary, just to make sure. It doesn't mean it
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was get the best candidate you've got, right, So they changed independent to
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vote in the race that has the most competition. Well, if you say
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no, the only way you can vote in our primary is cheems to be
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a Republican and so well, you know I don't want to do that.
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I don't like the national So you say they would keep those people from voting,
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Well, it may well suppress those votes. So I have no reason
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for me to go. There's nobody I want to vote for on the Democrat
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side. And you know, they could still vote a in a nonpartisan election
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if they went, but they may they may not go to vote at all.
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And I think Elgim mccardial said yesterday there are a lot of independents who
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want to vote for Donald Trump in a primary. Sure, and you wouldn't
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be able to do that if they would change this, or they may want
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to vote for somebody anti Trump. You know, you never know right right
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right, But they want to vote, and it's discouraging as well. You
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know, your your pickings are limited. You can take a Democrat ballot and
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then you vote on the non partisan course of that ballotory you can just go
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inside. I just want the non partisan ballot. Well, that's a pretty
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fine distinction to make for people who are used to going to the polls and
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just taking a Republican ballot just because they don't want to identify as a Democrat,
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but they want to vote as an independent and pick and choose and then
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vote the non partisan ballot as they see fit without any regard to politics,
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which this time would be the judges in the school board. Yeah, school
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boards and judges. Right, you know you don't like to I mean,
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I'm not a conspiratist, but if you look at this and think, well,
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what it's going to do is keep more moderate independent voters, maybe more
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I wouldn't say open minded, but less. I caught a classic voters from
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the polls and limited only to perhaps participation by the most conservative winging the Republican
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Party to decide school boards and judicial races. That's not a good thing.
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I mean, as many people should vote as possible in these judicial races.
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So we'll see what happens on Saturday. It's Eligiam mccarl I don't know her.
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She's a lawyer from Wheeling, and some of the things I've heard her
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say on the in Front I didn't think for very lawyerly, but when I
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heard her yesterday on Hopey, it made perfect sense. It's a little late
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in the game, and hear what about people who think, well, I'm
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going to file for this race on a non partisan basis because I think I
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have a lot of overall appeal. And you know, there are two hundred
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and eighty thousand independents out there now that would that would be a Supreme Court
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race statewide or in my county. Like in Putnam County, there are now
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fewer Democrats than probably independence register. I went down to Brian Wood, who's
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a good friend of mine. I'll vote for Brian Wood if I was going
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to vote for a republic and I'd vote for him for Secretary of State because
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he's the most qualified person on the ballot. He's actually run some elections and
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he's not a politician. Well, I said, Brian, is it help,
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I'd like to work in the polls? Would it be a help?
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I said, maybe? Not affiliated? So well, not affiliated, it
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was pretty good because I can send you anywhere that really just stay a Democrat
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because it's hard to find many more to be poll workers. Which is I
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mean, a complete reversal. In the forty seven fifth fifty years I've been
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practicing a law, been around Putnam Cany. There were times in the seventies
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out at the precincts Atlanta that they couldn't eat. There was there was not
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a single Republican vote which included the poll workers. You know, we'll see,
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We'll see what happens. Hopping seem to indicate Harvey and Harvey Payton's with
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us Peyton Law Ferman Night Show every Thursday morning again the lines open three O
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four, three four, five fifty fifty eight three oh four, three four
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or five fifty fifty eighty questions about the law. Harvey Hoppy seeing another Harvey
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Hoppy seemed to indicate in his in his commentary this morning that there might be
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some legal problems. There could well be that would be up to the Secretary
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of State to resolve, I think in his position as chief Elections officer.
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Whether indeed at this stage after I mean, filing is going to close out
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here the end of this month, twenty seventh, Yeah, the twenty seventh
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of January, filings close. Any number of people have all ready filed.
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I think Charlie Trump did he fil for the I don't know if he has
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yet, but he's going He's going to file for the seat, I think
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because Hutchinson is not going to run, right, So that's the I don't
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know who else is going to file for that seat, but it looks like
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Charlie Trump. That is the division he's going to throw his hat in on.
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Will depending on who else might toss their head in the ring. Here's
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Charlie. He's probably has a lot of appeal to independence. He's been fairly
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moderate through his career, and he's well educated, you know, and vocal
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and accessible to the public. It's good information and is it fair to him
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and say, well, yeah, but there are two hundred and eighty thousand
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people that were going to maybe keep away from some of those away from the
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bulls. Who could help you? You got a call, Yeah, Tommy,
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Tommy, you're with us in Charleston. Tommy, you're on with Harvey.
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Go ahead, morning Tommy, Good morning, gentlemen. Thank you so
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much for raising this issue about the independent voter thing. And I look go
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forward to some clarifications and you know today we will hear more. Right,
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But let me get on another issue. I understand that there's a proposal to
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make it a crime to assault or kill a canine officer, you know,
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the police dog. Well, is this a mom and Apple pie move by
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somebody because I think it's illegal to do to assault or kill them. Now
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it is, I said, well, we have statutes with regard to cruelty
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or uh the manner of which I mean. We had a fellow down said
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always it was charged with cruelty to animals because a dog that he considered vicious
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I was in the street and he shot at once and killed it. Well,
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the ultimate determination was that wasn't a crime because it wasn't cruelty to an
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animal. That is a mom and pop issue, But at the same time,
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it's an emotional issue to the police departments. It's an emotional issue to
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the office who are involved with these animals. The animals are quite valuable.
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So at the dead minimum, it should be a criminal offense that's accompanied by
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a significant restitution to whatever entity or facility. When you're talking about well trained
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police dog ten thousand dollars or more. I mean they have security dogs at
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the airport. They are like twenty twenty five thousand dollars, So we're it
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does have that sort of a whiff of playing to the crowd. I heard
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Mike Stewart, he's you know, ran for the Senate, so he could
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run for a state wide race. Talking about the band of brothers, well,
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you know that's not exactly true. The police police are an the agency
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of the state. They're they're there to protect us and to serve the public,
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not necessarily to be a band of brothers and operates independently. But it's
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an emotional issue and I think it'll probably pass. We'll see what the level
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of punishment. I mean, you can impose all the punishment you want.
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If enhance punishment service as a turn, there'll be no more child molesters,
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right, there wouldn't be any kidnapping and first to be murder would cease to
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exist. And people who commit crimes generally are their crimes of passion or crimes
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are the spur of the moment. Or somebody who's a fugitive is in the
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woods, they're hiding, they set the dogs on them, the dogs after
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them, They pull a gun, they shoot the dog and the which would
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be generally in human terms, a voluntary manslaughter. There isn't any thought at
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the time. It's just societal retribution. It makes us feel better, right,
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It's some staff to put on the wound that the officers and the department
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and the agency feel when this happens, that's all it is. I can't
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disagree with you on that, but it's going to pass, and there are
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some valid emotional and social reasons it will pass. I think it's a law
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and order issue, which is something that's quite important. All right, Tommy,
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got it, thank you? Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna go to
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the break here. But I think I listened to that yesterday and they had
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some police officers there, and you know, they were talking about, you
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know, the training and just different things. And I think the bill,
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I think the way it ended up was it's it's like a two to ten,
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but that'd be the judge would decide to judge could get probation. I
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mean, you know what I mean. And so so Mike Stewart wanted a
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mandatory jail time, but then they defeated that proposed amendment. Well that was
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that mandatory. Of course, that one is that's political. I mean,
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he's running for office, right, and his pitch is, I'm the most
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conservative law enforcement guy here. I was appointed US Attorney by Donald Trump.
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Look at what I'm going to do in a state where we've got massive overcrowding
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and are what is what we really need is another mandatory minimum sentence for essentially
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a crime at the moment. Now, if the judge has got discretion and
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a person this wilfully that was that was a key word that was argued yesterday.
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Well, well from once to disable I went, look, yeah,
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you see, the ask these people who were in a rack in Afghanistan what
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they wanted, what the Taliban wanted to shoot. They always wanted to shoot
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the dogs they were trying to get. They would try to lure the handlers
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into situations where they could shoot them and kill them and kill the dogs because
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they're valuable, valuable parts of a combat team. I mean I wasn't there,
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so I don't know, but that's what I understand. So if it's
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someone who intends to commit a crime or crime wave and say the city of
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Saint Albans, and they've plot and conspired and willfully kill the two dogs who
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are that are there so they can traffic drugs without with impunity, then sure
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the judge may say, well, listen, this has got cyan or you've
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got planning. There's an evil state of mind. It says two to ten,
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Well how about five years, my boy, And they're not going to
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have any prole for this one, and so they're going to serve a minimum
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of two and a half years. And I think that's a better way to
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approach it. Yeah, Ryan Weld argued, and I think he's gonna be
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a talking I'm going to take the break now. But Ran Weld argued that
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if you put him in jail mandatory, then you lose any chance of retribution
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to these You could lose any chance of retribution. Institution, Yeah, restitution,
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Yeah, how they how they going to pay it if they're in jail.
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Yeah, and to the police departments or whatever. Yeah, correct,
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Yeah, okay, all right, just take a break. Harvey Payton Payton
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eighty w U chs The Voice of Charleston. Three oh four three four five
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fifty eight fifty eight. Harvey Paytons here at Peyt Law Firm in Nitro three
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oh four three four five fifty eight fifty eight. And our sock drive is
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underway, Harves. Indeed, you know I was on the way up this
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morning in the car when I heard about the sock drive. I hadn't paid
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attention, so I didn't bring I've got a couple I actually I've got a
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couple of pairs of socks at home that haven't opened. I got for Christmas.
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Thought if I had heard about this, I would have just brought them
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along. I don't need any more, so there should be new socks right
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in the past, socks in the pockage. So here it is, yeah
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thorn Her Automotivac to drop your socks, drive through donation. New socks can
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help folks. Of course Mountain Mission is helping us, or we're helping mount
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the Mission. Just drive in the parking lot right here eleven mom in Virginia
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Street East until six o'clock. They've got barrels out there and you can just
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drive and put the socks in the barrel. Right. I started to pull
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in the parking lot this morning. I mean I heard the sock drive announcement
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on the radio, but subconsciously I just thought I was pulling in the parking
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lot. Well, it's full of because you make a loop. So I
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was backing up to get in the parking space. A gentleman came out and
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it's can I help you? So I'm going to oh, you're going in
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the building. Lokay, you can park here. Uh, it's a really
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good thing. Union Mission, Union Mission, right, it's Atin Mountain Mission
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yeah, well, who can do any better? You've got a Unian mission,
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mountain mission, and people are cold. I mean you forget socks underwear.
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If you have a jacket or a heavy coat that maybe you've got a
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couple and you haven't used it or worn it in a few years. It
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doesn't make any difference to a person who's cold. If it's fashionable. Now,
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you're not taking those today. All they're taking is sauce new socks.
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You know, if you're on your way into work, lawyers, if you're
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here and drop them off, it would be really meaningful because it is cold
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and cold, cold, cold. So the United States Supreme Court I wanted
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to tell briefly. The folks may have heard. It's international news. It
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will be in the national news more later this year, when the Supreme Court
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decides, they have a case which they are considering. The point of this
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case is asking the court to overturn a precedent which has been the law as
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far as how you interpret the law. Since nineteen eighty four, it's called
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the Chevron deference doctrine, and that's too complicated to really go into, but
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it deals with what the power is of the administrative state. Congress can't write
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a law. They can't write any laws right now, which is how the
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administrative state has become much stronger to anticipate every question or every interpretation it's going
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to come up about terminology, implementation and enforcement of a statute. And back
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in the nineteen eighty one, when Reagan came into office, his had been
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an environmental protection agency, changed the regulations of that agency about how a source
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of pollution was defined. They changed it in a manner more favorable to people
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like Exxon. And so the Exxon preference is essentially or the Exxon difference is
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a Chevron or Excell it is essentially a conservative win. The Supreme Court considered
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Chevron's position they had complied with the new regulation and said, well, you
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know, this agency's qualified. They have the expertise to determine what Congress meant
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and when they ambiguously used the word source. And so if the if Congress
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doesn't make it clear and the agency is not unreasonable or arbitrary, then the
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agency interpretation of the regulation is entitled a difference, which puts a lot of
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power, as you can imagine, in the hands of UH the Executive branch,
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who appoint the people that run these agencies. But I think I think
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it's the most anomalance thing is that the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency when
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Chevron was decided was Anne Gorsich, and now her son, Neil is on
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the Supreme Court and may well vote with the majority to overturn that legal position
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that from which she and her agency benefited forty years ago. So what is
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the what would be if they do overturn it, because there's an appeal to
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what would that do? What would be the well, the position then be
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that that courts could disregard or would not be bound to give deference to the
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agency's rulings. They would look at it from what we call Denovo standard.
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They would take a look at all the you know, the matters that are
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underlie a particular regulation or the policy that led to the implement of regulation and
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decided like a court case. Are the courts qualifying and equipped to do that?
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That's the big doubt. That's what the Supreme Court said back in nineteen
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eighty four. Look, we can't policy changes, regulations change, and policy
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change. I mean, the change that Chevron dealt with was because the policy
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of Ronald Reagan was different from the policy of Jimmy Carter as related to environmental
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inforced Okay, So if you're thinking, okay, so I'm going to try
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to so if you're thinking of scales, I'm just you know, trying to
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think of an analogy here. Thinking of scales. The difference is that the
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federal agency has the expertise or they have more weight. What they say has
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more weight has difference. So if this appeal is if that, if the
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Supreme Court decides the other way, then that kind of more balance is they're
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absolutely equals and the Court's going to sort it out, right, I mean,
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and bad cases make bad law. This the issue that's before the Supreme
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Court right now is in two cases where it is a non issue. These
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fishing boats have been required for years and years when they fit for certain species,
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to have an observer on board, a federal observer to make sure they
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adhere to catch limits because this particular species is subject to overfishing. And that's
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just the agency says, you have to have a person on board to enforce
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the catch limits. Then the agency said, and this is a twenty twenty
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regulations actually came in under the Trump administration, and now you have to pay
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for them. Not only do you have to take a federal inspector on board,
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you have to pay for them seven hundred dollars a day for every day
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they are out on the ship with you. Well, this fella and I
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think he's from New Hampshire or New Jersey. One of the guys from New
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Jersey. The other one may be from New Hampshire. So we'll wait a
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minute. You know, that's not reasonable. I mean, I can understand.
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We don't mind taking these people with us. They've been with us for
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years and they watch the catch and we like them doing force these But you
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know, to pay seven hundred bucks a day, that means that one of
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these fellas can make as money much for going out with us on the ship
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as the share of a crewman. Because those people work on shares. You
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know, how many tons you catch, what you sell? You know it,
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mate gets a certain share, Chris, So they're making more than my
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crew is making for riding along watching us catch fish. They the DC Court
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of Appeals said, well, but the agency is not unreasonable, and the
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agency is in title of difference, and so you pay it. And some
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admittedly conservative think tank legal groups represent them, and they've taken the issue.
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It's clear cut to the Supreme courtl In the meantime, the agency has suspended
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that rule for payment. So but the case is already in court. It
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was argued yesterday and from what the court observers say, a think'st in the
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article in New York Times this morning, as it appears that it's going to
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be a close call. But certainly or six Thomas Alito seem to be let's
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toss this. You know, we don't know what's going to happen. Well,
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there were a solution, of course, what is a solution. Congress
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can write better laws. Congress could do some work which would be a solution
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to a whole heck of a lot of the problems we've got right now and
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to the blossoming Nobody questioned that the administrative state has balloon in America since the
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nineteen seventies. You've got the Environmental Protection Agency in the thirties, We've got
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the Securities and Exchange Commission, You've got the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
30:41
You've got issues about the qualific classifications for Medicare and Medicaid, what bounce the
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disability The code of federal regulations would occupy this entire room. And that is
30:56
really a modern phenomenon. When the country was much simpler, you didn't need
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that. The theory being politically that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights protected
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us from the government, but the administrative state came into being to protect for
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the government, to protect us from big business, industry and monopolies who had
31:22
so much economic power that they were out what they're out of control. You
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don't really have a lot of freedom and liberty now somewhere. And I think
31:32
that the administrative state needs to be rained in. And I think that the
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Chevron difference gives rise to too much arrogance in some of these agencies. You
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deal with the EPA about some things, and some of these issues about what
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constitutes the waters of the United States. And I don't blame I don't find
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fault with industry for questioning is if you think you're going to get difference and
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the only standards you have to meet is well, my interpretation is reasonable.
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What does reasonable mean? It's not just completely if you do a study or
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two and you like them, and you pick the people who do the studies,
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and so here's our regulations. We'll see what happens. But if the
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Chevron deference is overturned, and it's going to be, then we're going to
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have to find another standard to apply. That's going to say where that create
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more lawsuits, more legal challenges. Sure will, Sure will, But perhaps
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it will rein in the eagerness of some agencies to nibble around the very extreme
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edges and push the outside of the envelope on what their power is, you
32:32
know, executive orders. It's happened under every president since Carter. Carter deregulation,
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of which everybody thought was a great deal. Airlines, railroads, and
32:45
trucking companies. Well, now we've got four major airlines in the United States.
32:49
We pay more to fly than people in the rest of the world.
32:52
So has that been a good thing? In a social security social security disability
32:57
has become look at you got to look at the regulations in that regard the
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Federal Railway Administration. I used to do lots and lots of railroad work representing
33:07
railroad workers who were injured during the course of their employment. They're not covered
33:09
by workers' compensation. It's the Federal Employer's Liability Act. And you bring an
33:15
action directly against the railroad used to see I mean the Boiler Inspection Act,
33:22
which controls the safety on locomotives, and volumes and volumes of regulations about what
33:29
the railroads can and can I do, and what standards are over to the
33:32
size of rock that you put along the side of a track ballast, I
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mean and out, which is why it takes about ten years to build anything
33:44
in the United States, honestly. And Fiarello LaGuardia was forced to land in
33:51
the fog on a trip back to New York and they landed a Teeterberdo,
33:55
New Jersey. He gets out and he said, mister Mary got to take
33:59
it over to the city, said, I thought I would have landed in
34:01
an airport in New York, and so well, we don't have an airport
34:05
in New York. So what we're gonna have? And three years later the
34:07
open look wardio. Now could you do that today? Of course not.
34:13
We can't build Cordier age. So we'll see what happens. It's going to
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be. I don't think there's a lot of drama, even though my mouth
34:20
is a justice course, it's actually overturning a doctrine that his mother supported forty
34:25
years ago when she was at the Administrator of the EPA. Well, see
34:29
what has one of those interesting things. It's too almost too complex to talk
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about, but it will effect our day to day lives in a substantial way
34:37
if it does affect the ability to transact business and conduct your daily affairs here
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