Several new studies document the current court’s distinctive insistence on its dominance and the justices’ willingness to use procedural shortcuts to achieve it.
trust in the supreme court. paul: that s quite an accusation. the hearing itself though was called undue influence, operation higher court and politicking at the supreme court. what s the, what s the immediate goal? because jerry nadler talked about ethics on the court. are they does congress want to impose some kind of ethics code on the court? of course, the court has its own ethics code already. what do they want to do that the court court is not doing? again, they claim, all of these examples that they point to and, again, this so-called operation higher court which was this project that rob schenck claims he had to influence the conservative justices, there was nothing wrong with my of these interactions as far as any of these interactions as far as i can tell. and the accusations against justice thomas the, chief justice roberts, justice
years. i don t think we ve talked in a while. so let s talk about, first, this accusation by mr. rob schenck that something happened in 2014, now in 20 to 22 he comes forward and says that he was told by a woman that justice alito had leaked the supreme court decision to come. how credible is that accusation? paul, thanks for having me on. i think it s completely incredible. in fact, the two participants to that conversation justice alito and gayle wright, the wrights were having dinner with the alitos both deny it. rob schenck has told many lies over his life. in fact, a judge, a federal judge found that he d lied are repeatedly under oath. he himself in his memoirs on a blog post said that he has lied and told consequential lies, many consequential lies. so it s somebody you just can t believe, and it s so out of character. i don t believe justice alito
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, the Rev. Rob Schenck said he knew the outcome of a pivotal religious freedom decision weeks before the Supreme Court released it in 2014.