senator, what is the speaker talking about? i have no idea, but it sure sounds like he s talking about a conversation with justices who are his personal friends that led him to believe that they are very concerned about the trump convictions and they are likely to step in. if that is true, that is a brutal blow to court that is already teetering from ethics scandal after ethics scandal. i listened to it a couple of times. i could not quite decide whether he means the supreme court will let the appeals process run its course in this
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heard about. the supreme court dismissing an attempted appeal from louisiana which paves the way for the state s congressional districts to be redrawn after claims that they were basically trying to dilute the actual influence of black voters in that state. the court ordering the maps to be done before 2024 s election, and it comes after this court, the supreme court, ordered alabama to redraw their maps under similar requirements. so talking about voting rights, the high court is basically kind of reassessing what chief justice roberts had once done under the holder case where he had been much more skeptical of arguments about overseeing southern states efforts to undermine black voting. at the same time, we have this ethics scandal, thomas, and alito exposed initially by factual reports in propublica taking lavish gifts and hiding them. we have discussed chief justice role in this, as far as we can
judicial reform bill out there, and i think the conduct and behavior of the supreme court justices makes the case for it every single day. they connection to any ethics scandal and dobbs is pretty clear, if you go back to the story of reverend schenck and his supreme court plan to a wine and dine selected supreme court justices. republican appointees, to get them to be bold and strong with respect to fighting abortion rights and in fact, it was an early decision called the hobby lobby case that related to contraception coverage. reverend schenck, then a republican operatives, seems to have gotten advance notice of it, either directly or indirectly. so the millions of dollars that were spent whining and dining the judges, the efforts to influence them secretly, the
place in the last set of revelations. and finally, this is not the clarence thomas ethics scandal. this is the clarence thomas ethics scandal appendage to a much larger inquiry that needs to be made into a very robust billionaire funded, very secretive effort to capture and control the supreme court, and so there s lots of investigative work that we need to pursue towards the goal, which your last segment expressed so wonderfully, thank god for honest courtrooms but we need honest courtrooms. i know this is something you ve been working toward and talking about for years. the country seems to have caught up with you. confidence in this court has plunged faster than any civic institution in public life. would you like to see john roberts, i know the answer would be yes as a partner, but i guess a better way to ask the question, can you do anything