Episodes

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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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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Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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We pick up with the Pardon Power in the Constitution and consider the term “Christian Nationalism” from a Christianity as Ethnicity perspective. NB: Ethnicity is not race or color/appearance in this usage of the term. Ethnos, the Greek word used in Matthew 28’s “Great Commission,” contemplates ethnicity as its used here, as “nation” or people bound together by kinship, heritage, tradition, no matter what they look like, for adoption is very old in the Judeo-Christian tradition (think of for example Ruth, or the language of adoption in the New Testament).

Application to American Politics and Public Law are sprinkled throughout.

This is a Christmas season series on The Republican Professor podcast.

We take a look at two provisions of “the Supreme Law of the Land,” as well as Federalist 74 written by Hamilton, and I reflect briefly on Lincoln’s Lyceum Address.

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 Phenomonenology 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).

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 1.”

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

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

To financially support this podcast with a donation, visit https://buymeacoffee.com/lucasj.mather
or on Venmo at TheRepublicanProfessor

Every cent goes a long way, so thank you.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

The Republican Professor Podcast
The Republican Professor Newsletter on Substack
https://therepublicanprofessor.substack.com/
https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/podcast/
https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/articles/
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Grandpa Mather flew F6F Hellcats during World War 2, and later married Dottie Rehnland of Michigan, and had 3 kids, one of whom was my father. He became a Christian at the big Methodist Church in Colorado Springs in 1956 at Dawson Trotman’s funeral when Billy Graham gave the eulogy.

In 1962, Grandpa founded Mr. Steak, Inc., which eventually had 286 restaurants in the United States and in Canada.

Grandpa Mather calls his grandson, TRP Producer and Host Lucas J. Mather, on 7 May 2020 during the lockdowns to encourage the boy.

Grandpa Mather is today 101 years old and resides in Ventura County, California. He attends Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newberry Park with his wife of 29 years, Linda Lopez Mather, daughter of longtime restaurant owner Sal Lopez, owner of Sal’s Mexican Inn at 1450 Oxnard Blvd for many decades in Oxnard, California.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D., also a US Navy veteran.

We discuss an article by UC Berkeley School of Law Professor John Yoo which discusses the nomination to Attorney General and the president’s goal to take care the laws be faithfully executed.

The article can be found here, and we thank John Yoo and National Review for producing the article and making it available for discussion.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/why-an-attorney-general-matt-gaetz-would-backfire-on-trump/

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