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February 4, 2025

Chevron Deference Doctrine Deep Dive Part 2c: Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense Council 1984

What hath Individual Liberty to do with proper and correct, univocal definitions of terms ?

For Part 4 of this deep dive where we will go through the famous Chevron USA v. Natural Resource Defense Council (1984) Roman Numerals III through V. Recall, this decision reversed the Ginsburg opinion at the lower court.

This in turn sets us up for Part 3, where we’ll look closely at Loper Bright (2024), which in turn reversed the Republican win in 1984.

This could be called Gorsuch v. Gorsuch, like Kramer v. Kramer but son v. Mother instead of spouses.

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Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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January 31, 2025

Chevron Deference Doctrine Deep Dive Part 2b: Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense Council 1984

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Are you ready to get your Separation of Powers on ?

For Part 3 of this deep dive where we will go through the famous Chevron USA v. Natural Resource Defense Council (1984) Roman Numerals III through V. Recall, this decision reversed the Ginsburg opinion at the lower court.

This in turn sets us up for Part 3, where we’ll look closely at Loper Bright (2024), which in turn reversed the Republican win in 1984.

This could be called Gorsuch v. Gorsuch, like Kramer v. Kramer but son v. Mother instead of spouses.

Epiphany 2025

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January 23, 2025

Chevron Deference Doctrine Deep Dive Part 2a: Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense Council 1984

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Are you ready to get your Separation of Powers on ?

For Part 2 of this deep dive where we will go through the famous Chevron USA v. Natural Resource Defense Council (1984), which reversed the Ginsburg opinion at the lower court.

This in turn sets us up for Part 3, where we’ll look closely at Loper Bright (2024), which in turn reversed the Republican win in 1984.

This could be called Gorsuch v. Gorsuch, like Kramer v. Kramer but son v. Mother instead of spouses.

Epiphany 2025

Luke, for TRP

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January 20, 2025

A Gay Republican

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Longtime caller, first time listener CS Snodtgrass, or Clive Staples Snodtgrass Jr. for short (dad’s name is Fred) finally gets through to the TRP Podcast. Clive joins us to celebrate being a Gay American and a Gay Republican and enjoy the inauguration of President Trump for the second time.

We also discuss, briefly, the ant-Gay policies of the Democratic Party in California in the present day.

It’s 20 Jan 2025 , Monday, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday holiday.

January 17, 2025

FBI Violation of Fourth Amendment Civil Liberties Under the Guise of Admin Law: Snitko v. US, Part 3

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Are you ready to get your Fourth Amendment on ?

This is Part 3 of an analysis of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (US) in Pasadena on Snitko v. United States (FBI), a Fourth Amendment search and seizure “inventory” case.

The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-discerning-when-government-uses-administrative-law-to-break-Constitutional-law podcast.

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Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

December 30, 2024

Chevron Deference Doctrine Deep Dive Part 1: R. Ginsburg at the DC Circuit in 1982 v. A. Gorsuch EPA

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This is not for the faint of heart.
It’s a deep dive into Chevron deference doctrine starting with Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s DC Circuit opinion in 1982 against Anne Gorsuch, Neil Gorsuch’s mother, who was at the time appointed by Republican Ronald Reagan to run the Environmental Protection Agency.

We cover Ginsburg’s 1982 decision here in Part 1.
This sets us up for Part 2 of this deep dive where we will go through the famous Chevron USA v. Natural Resource Defense Council (1984), which reversed the Ginsburg opinion at the lower court.

This in turn sets us up for Part 3, where we’ll look closely at Loper Bright (2024), which in turn reversed the Republican win in 1984.

This could be called Gorsuch v. Gorsuch, like Kramer v. Kramer but son v. Mother instead of spouses.

Merry Christmas season to you from Trp.

Luke, for TRP

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December 26, 2024

Pride and Politics, Part 2

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Today’s return guest is a Mark O. Hatfield (R, Oregon) type of Republican, Dr. Vernon Grounds, Ph.D., former Chancellor, President, and long-time professor of Philosophy and Psychology, and founder of the Counseling Department at Denver Seminary, where TRP’s host Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. knew Dr. Grounds during Dr. Mather’s graduate student days. Dr. Grounds taught in the philosophy department as well courses on Existentialism and Christian worldview.

Our topic today on The Republican Professor Podcast is emotional problems and American Politics. Last Fall, we did a series on Anxiety and American Politics. Last Spring we did a series on Hatred and Anger in the Normative Christian Tradition. We return today with a focus on the concepts and phenomena of Pride in Biblical and Political Phenomenology in the American context. You’ve probably noticed the relevance to American Politics if you’re paying attention.

I can think of no better guest than Dr. Grounds, who is a rare bird in that he was one of the first to get the in depth Psychology training–a Ph.D. in Psychology–and applied that to Christian ministry and Apologetics. Dr. Grounds got his bachelors from Rutgers during the Great Depression, and struggled mightily with his Christian faith. He got seminary training, and later a Ph.D. in Psychology from Drew University, where he wrote a dissertation on the concept of love in the thought of Sigmund Freud.

He wrote several books, but the one we discuss and read from today is his “Emotional Problems and the Gospel” (Zondervan, 1976).

The Amazon link is here: https://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Problems-Gospel-Vernon-Grounds/dp/031025311X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=173GZ03N0T8JF&keywords=vernon+grounds+emotional&qid=1698937363&s=instant-video&sprefix=vernon+grounds+emotional%2Cinstant-video%2C124&sr=1-1-catcorr

Since Dr. Ground died before we were able to record this with him, he joins this episode through his chapter in the above book, which he titled “The Bible and Pride, Part 2.”

The Republican Professor is a pro-mental-health-in-politics, pro-ultimate-issues podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Vernon Grounds, Ph.D.

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Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

December 24, 2024

FBI Violation of Fourth Amendment Civil Liberties Under the Guise of Admin Law: Snitko v. US, Part 2

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This is Part 2 of an analysis of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (US) in Pasadena on Snitko v. United States (FBI), a 4th Amendment search and seizure “inventory” case.

The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-discerning-when-government-uses-administrative-law-to-break-Constitutional-law podcast.

Support the podcast with a gift:

https://buymeacoffee.com/lucasj.mather

or on Venmo at-sign TheRepublicanProfessor

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

December 18, 2024

The FBI Violation of Fourth Amendment Civil Liberties Under the Guise of Administrative Law: The Case of Snitko v. United States (2024)

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This is Part 1 of an analysis of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (US) in Pasadena on Snitko v. United States (FBI), a 4th Amendment search and seizure “inventory” case.

The Republican Professor is a pro-correctly-discerning-when-government-uses-administrative-law-to-break-Constitutional-law podcast.

Support the podcast with a gift:

https://buymeacoffee.com/lucasj.mather

or on Venmo at-sign TheRepublicanProfessor

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

December 11, 2024

Christianity as Ethnicity Part 2 and First Amendment Free Exercise: the Case of Jessica Tapia and Prop 3

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Christianity as Ethnicity Part 2, with special application to the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the US Constitution, and commentary on the definition of marriage according to California in the issue of Prop 3 as it was debated in the California Legislature in 2023.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.