A George Washington Bridge too far

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🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The Supreme Court is trying to settle the fight over the biggest traffic jam in the history of American politics once and for all. WNYC's Matt Katz, author of "American Governor: Chris Christie's Bridge to Redemption," explains. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:06.8	You might have noticed Chief Justice John Roberts is working two jobs right now. He's
1:11.8	referring the Senate trial of President Trump in addition to running the Supreme Court of the
1:16.8	United States. And back at the Supreme Court, a very famous case is being discussed and decided.
1:23.5	I used to work at WNYC New York Public Radio and basically the entire time I worked there,
1:29.3	we had a reporter named Matt Katz who basically covered just this one case. He won a pee body for it,
1:36.0	he wrote a book about it, the case is called Bridgegate.
1:40.9	Yeah, and it was a perfect story for us because we encompassed the New York City and New Jersey
1:46.6	region and at any given time there was somebody listening to WNYC stuck in traffic on the George
1:51.6	Washington Bridge and this started basically with a mysterious traffic jam.
1:59.5	There was a multi-day traffic jam on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge
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