reform on many fronts including establishing a code of ethics, imagine that. welcome. still glad to have you here, and so timely. first off for you, why is the supreme court exempt from ethical accountability in the first place? i think a lot of people kind of scratch their head because every other federal judge in the system is liable to the rules. there is no good reason for them to be exempt. there s certain idiosyncrasies of history in terms of when the lower courts code of conduct was written down that it exempted the supreme court at the time because the supreme court had their own other and related issues that they were dealing with both internally and with congress. it is really just an accident of history that they are exempt of any code. and they could adopt the code tomorrow, and i think they should be fit up and include some serious accountability and complaint measures. there is no good reason that
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but i want you to look at this video. i looked at it from a police officer standpoint. in this video, what i saw it as a group of men that have not only done this to this young man mr. nichols, but it looked like they had done this before and it was how they empowered each other and what we as police officers call at a boys after the trees. how they looked at it when they finally put him under arrest leaning against the car and talking. these people had done this before. they had empowered each other. this video shows that they sold the situation and then this egregious beating of this man and still took forever to call an ambulance at the scene and he was laid over and just said, he is high. did you see him grab for my gun? those are idiosyncrasies as a police officer and i thought, yeah, this is not the first time this has happened but just the first time they have gotten
behold, there are more documents. and it does it just seems like why not just be up front? well, okay. it s not the press s fault. go ahead, governor. the press has its little idiosyncrasies that i ve grown to not be so fond of them. and that s one of them. let me just make this up because i have no idea what went on in the white house. if i m arranging a trip between the two leaders of the biadjacent nations, do i want this to come out while this summit is going on between the canadian premier and the mexican president? in general it is better to get everything out first. but i just don t think yet we re at the level where this is much more than press indignation. now, it could be more eventually. but, you know, i ve been through this business a long time. and i know press indignation that may or may not be justified when i see it. and this just you know, we
but governor dean, besides indignation from reporters, it does prolong stories if one day, it s one thing and then, lo and behold, not only are there more documents but the folks knew that there are more documents. it just seems like, why not just be upfront? okay, maybe the reason not to be upfront the price has its little idiosyncrasies that i ve grown to be not so fond of. that is one of them. let me just make this up because i have no idea what went on in the white house, but if i am arranging a trip between the two leaders of my adjacent nations, do i want to have this come out while the summit is going on between the canadian premier and the mexican president? that could have been one of the reasons. in general, it is better to get everything out first, but i don t think yet we are at the level where this is much more then press indignation. it could be more, eventually, but i ve been in this business a long time, and i know press indignation that