A machine whos been in and out of a lot of stories here. Bernie carrick facing questions about the efforts to capitalize on the big efforts after election day, including a kind of grift and questions of wire fraud. Jack myth also continues to probe the elector fraud scheme. Giuliani an Unindicted Coconspirator there. There are new subpoenas that came out in the last week as they bear down on that plot. Meanwhil there may be other people who tried to steal your vote who could be held to account. Some of that, as journalists a little behind where the probe could be. Next the trial. Jack smith sparring with trumps attorneys over the evidence rule, the protective order which has to do with whether donald trump would use or abuse certain information. Theres a new filing where smith and his team are seeking a case that would try this case in the media rather than the courtroom. The Special Counsel referencing media over the past weekend. You see there, what they call the full ginsberg, the p
momentous trials for american officials. for this one you have to go back over 2,000 years to 430 bce to the greek tragedy oedipus rex, which traces a story of a king who learns of his future fate and attempts to defy it, an act of hubris, and ultimately seals his fate. the greek worse interested in oracles who might predict the future, a tradition that carries on today when we think of horoscopes or tarot card readings. one of the reasons oedipus as a story endures is because people remain interested in their own future and whether it can be predicted or shaped. oedipus who would eventually cry over his own tragedy begins with a story where he consults a soothsayer and gets a terrible horoscope he tries to avoid,
and it deserves respect on that basis. precedent is kind of like our shared family history as judges. it deserves our respect because it represents our collective which is come. to come in and think that just bass and it would be an act of hubris. what if i ask you about bush versus gore? i know some people in this room have some opinions on that, i m sure, senator. but as a judge it s a precedent of theins supreme court and it deserves the same respect of or precedent of the united states supreme court when you re coming to it as a judge and it has to be analyzed under the law of precedent.
basis. precedent is kind of like our shared family history as judges. it deserves our respect because it represents our collective wisdom. and to come in and think that just because i m new or the latest thing and no better than everybody who comes before me would be an act of hubris, inappropriate to the judicial role. what if i ask you about bush versus gore? i know some people in this room have some opinions on that, i m sure, senator. but as a judge, it s a precedent of the united states supreme court. and it deserves the same respect as other precedents of the united states supreme court. when you re coming to it as a judge. and it has to be analyzed under the law of precedent. well, let s go to a kind of