like a better word. they reasoned basis for a lot of bison. can you talk a bit more about that what was happening in the 18th and 19th centuries? absolutely. as you said, opium was a common ingredient in a lot of different medications. one of the most frequent uses was called latina. this was something regularly prescribed for pain medication for pain tolerance of someone was ill or had trouble sleeping. so for example we know that two first ladies in the 19th century died while their husbands were in the white house, letitia tyler and carole harrison. we don t know what they were prescribed log and was so common at the time that s hard to imagine that was one of the things that suggested. similarly, one of my favorite colorful stories occurred in 1805, when one of the first and only impeachment proceedings of a supreme court justice took place. john randolph was in charge of the prosecution of that case. he had such bad stomach issues
carolyn harrison. we don t know what they were prescribed but ladnum was so common at the time that s hard to imagine that was one of the things that suggested. similarly, one of my favorite colorful stories occurred in 1805, when one of the first and only impeachment proceedings of a supreme court justice took place. john randolph was in charge of the prosecution of that case. he had such bad stomach issues that his doctor prescribed him opium laced wine. and he was in so much pain that he basically was taking a sip of this concoction in between every single sentence. and by the end of the trial he could barely stand and was slurring his words because he had taken so much of this, what they thought of then, as medication. so it just goes to show how much our understanding of these things have changed. we still have the impeachment proceedings but we don t have the opium laced wine. was it a big deal that he was taking opium laced wine at the time? or was it just, oh there he goes ag
i m a fan. everybody knows that i m areas fan. if i wasn t raiders fan, you saw the amount of raiders here of my house, it s akin to what harlan crow has in naz memorabilia. so, we need to start looking a things from a right and wron perspective, and not a orange-y perspective everybody should be on the sam side of this equation here because, at best, this i incredibly unethical injunctio propriety, and at worst it s a violation of the oath that justice thomas took, and h could be potentially compromised to vote in favor o the way someone telling him to vote coming our podcast this coming week, and he s been very vocal as well as other house and senate members like yo mentioned with sheldon whitehouse, calling for justic thomas to resign i m in favor of that as well if that s the course it s goin to take, because i know th legal experts i ve talked to and it s a tricky road to do impeachment. there s only one justice in ou history that s been impeache in 1805, so this is not an eas
oversight. i also could ve taken, cannot roberts made a good point. we have friends, we all do i don t have friends of the plane, if i did i would be on it no but when i worked at the white house, if i would ve taken any of the kinds of gifts if you will that justice thomas had, would ve been reprimanded an quite possibly lost my job that s exactly, right the likes of checks and balances here that is why the situation ha the supreme court cannot polic itself and so there needs to be a enforceable code of ethics tha has teeth. because we see, love to thei own devices, we are going to b faced with situations like w are faced with right now i think it s an important point, barbara a code of ethic with teeth, i think that thi important part here. you mention that only once has the supreme court, how the supreme court justices removed is impeachment that s only happened once in our history, samuel chase. 1805 i think an impeachment o thomas in this republica