Im pleased to be speaking with judge amul thapar, who sits the u. S. Court of appeals for the sixth circuit. His new book, his first book, is titled the peoples Justice Clarence thomas and the constant fictional stories that define him. Judge departure, thanks for joining us. John thank you for having me. So lets start out with why you decided to write about justice in particular. There are several members of the court that espouse originalism and theyre jurists, prudence. Why Justice Thomas . John, i originally trying to just in originalism. So my goal was to write in excess possible interesting originalism book is in is you know as an author is someone who writes a lot you often throw out your first draft and what i discover in that in drafting i kept coming back to justice. I thought his brand of originalism called the original public, meaning originalism, was one where he consistently his entire career laid out what i was an original a purely vision of the constant tution and the l
And now it is a legal term. Ask anybody. Theyll tell you. Thank you, ari. See you later, joy. And we do continue to follow the breaking news tonight that donald trump has received indictment number three, courtesy of the d. C. Grand jury investigating his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. And let us just be clear, this is an historic moment in this country. Never has a president of the United States refused to relinquish power until trump. Never has a former president come up with a conspiracy that involves having their Vice President overturn the will of the people through the use of fake electors until trump. Never has a former president incited an insurrection with armed extremists to storm the u. S. Capitol until trump. And no u. S. President has ever been indicted before trump. And again for trump, this is indictment number three. And in many ways, it is the most historically significant one because its not just about his personal conduct. It is about us, our democracy. And n
President at the United States. The only person who could possibly have told jack smith and The Grand Jury about those phone calls is mike pence. The january Six Committee invited mike pence to testify, but he refused. The january Six Committee did not bother to issue a statement to mike pence since they knew he would ignore it, just as some other elected republicans ignored subpoenas from the committee. Mike pence could not ignore jack smiths subpoena. Mike pence went to court in what he knew was a legally hopeless attempt to block jacks mitt subpoena. Mike pence went to court to try to show trumps quarters, whose votes he wants in the president ial campaign to think that he was forced by Judicial Process to testify to jack smiths grand jury. Mike pence did not just testify to jack smiths grand jury. He became the star witness, and he will be the start witness when the case that the United States of america versus Donald J Trump is presented to a trial jersey in washington, d. C. They
Fictional stories that define him. Judge departure, thanks for joining us. John thank you for having me. So lets start out with why you decided to write about justice in particular. There are several members of the court that espouse originalism and theyre jurists, prudence. Why Justice Thomas . John, i originally trying to just in originalism. So my goal was to write in excess possible interesting originalism book is in is you know as an author is someone who writes a lot you often throw out your first draft and what i discover in that in drafting i kept coming back to justice. I thought his brand of originalism called the original public, meaning originalism, was one where he consistently his entire career laid out what i was an original a purely vision of the constant tution and the laws that govern us. And so in doing that, i thought this was an interesting way to tell the is through one justice his eyes and whatever the other i discovered is that hes not an originalist, but hes a
Im pleased to be speaking with judge amul thapar, who sits the u. S. Court of appeals for the sixth circuit. His new book, his first book, is titled the peoples Justice Clarence thomas and the constant fictional stories that define him. Judge departure, thanks for joining us. John thank you for having me. So lets start out with why you decided to write about justice in particular. There are several members of the court that espouse originalism and theyre jurists, prudence. Why Justice Thomas . John, i originally trying to just in originalism. So my goal was to write in excess possible interesting originalism book is in is you know as an author is someone who writes a lot you often throw out your first draft and what i discover in that in drafting i kept coming back to justice. I thought his brand of originalism called the original public, meaning originalism, was one where he consistently his entire career laid out what i was an original a purely vision of the constant tution and the l