Have you heard of the Rosemary Woods stretch . It is named after this woman, Rosemary Woods. The longtime secretary of richard nixon. Woods became her career with nixon in 1950, went long before his time with the white house. She was so close to the family the nixons daughters referred to her as aunt rose. In 1974, route woods was thrust into the National Spotlight during the watergate scandal when investigators discovered a Mysterious 18 and a half gap on one of the tapes handed over from the nixon white house. The tape was believed to contain a conversation between president nixon and his Chief Of Staff three days after the watergate breakin. Woods took responsibility for that gap. She tried to explain it away as an accident. As she tells, it she was simply transcribing the tape at her desk when the phone rang. As she reached for the phone, she mistakenly struck the wrong key on the recorder while her foot was on the machines pedal. The motion ended up somehow destroying the tapes co
trip in 2008. the gop billionaire, paula singer, who s a hedge fund had cases before the court at least ten times in the years following that vacation. alito did not report the trip in his financial disclosures. why? essentially supreme court justices are virtually unregulated, left to police themselves. and they re doing a bad job of it. what does alito say about this? in an interview with the wall street journal, he just doubled down, saying quote, i know it s a controversial view, i m willing to say. no provision of the constitution gives congress the authority to regulate the supreme court. period. by the, way the person who interviewed alito for that piece was david b. rifkin, a prominent conservative attorney who, i kid you not, is about to appear before him in a case at the supreme court. it is the biggest possible middle finger that he could send to congress, and to any
that s not how it works. if congress wanted to turn samalea chambers into a transgender health clinic, we would have full constitutional authority to do so. i think that deep down, he knows that, and he s scared of it. that is why he wants to go out and tell the american people the opposite. that is a vision for the supreme court s future there, martin. alito did this hours long interview, as we have mentioned with david b. rifkin. he appears before the court, he will be appearing on the federal income tax case. he is also an attorney for conservative activists leonard leo, he reportedly facilitated alito s grand alaskan adventure. i am trying to think of how wildly agree just this is. if ketanji brown jackson sat down for a new york times interview with the democrat election lawyer to talk about the l.a. galatea of republican voter laws, what would conservatives say? and let s just add an extra layer to this. david rifkin also wrote a
part because of the actions of justice is because of samuel alito. this is a man whose critics say he is indebted to, gop big donors. alito took a luxury fishing trip in 2008. the gop billionaire, paula singer, who s a hedge fund had cases before the court at least ten times in the years following that vacation. alito did not report the trip in his financial disclosures. why? essentially supreme court justices are virtually unregulated, left to police themselves. and they re doing a bad job of it. what does alito say about this? in an interview with the wall street journal, he just doubled down, saying quote, i know it s a controversial view, i m willing to say. no provision of the constitution gives congress the authority to regulate the supreme court. period. by the, way the person who interviewed alito for that piece was david b. rifkin, a prominent conservative attorney who, i kid you not, is about to appear before him in a case at the supreme court. it is the biggest possible midd
trying to say there, and maybe such an important point, most of the country s history, congress regulated the supreme court. it added or subtracted seats. taking away the power it moved certain hearings for totally partisan purposes. i m not saying that is all good, but it does show that embedded in the constitution is this idea of checks and balances among all three branches of the branches. the supreme court he seems to think sits a top the government, and also the balances to two other branches. that s not how it works. if congress wanted to turn samalea chambers into a transgender health clinic, we would have full constitutional authority to do so. i think that deep down, he knows that, and he s scared of it. that is why he wants to go out and tell the american people the opposite. that is a vision for the supreme court s future there, martin. alito did this hours long interview, as we have mentioned with david b. rifkin. he appears before the court, he will be appearing on the