A SCOTUS Whodunnit
What A Day
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🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
As expected, the U.S. government ran up against its legal debt limit of $31.381 trillion on Thursday. In response, the Treasury Department sent a letter to Congressional leaders stating that it has started taking “extraordinary measures” to avoid the government defaulting on its financial obligations.
The Supreme Court announced that it has been unable to identify who leaked the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade last May. Leah Litman, co-host of Crooked’s Strict Scrutiny, tells us more about the investigation and its findings.
And in headlines: New York lawmakers rejected Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul’s nominee to lead the state's highest court, 1 million people in France protested plans to raise the retirement age, and Lunar New Year will be a California state holiday this year for the first time ever.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, January 20th. I'm Trevelle Anderson. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Priyanka Eribindi and this is what a day. |
| 0:12.0 | Where every time we hear the word recession, |
| 0:14.1 | we are just going to pretend that they are talking about HBO's succession. |
| 0:17.6 | Oh yes, I personally can't wait to see what Tom's up to in the next season of recession. |
| 0:22.8 | See? Toxic positivity at its finest. |
| 0:26.3 | We love to see you. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, |
| 0:32.0 | Alec Baldwin was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the movie set shooting that left a cinematographer dead. |
| 0:38.3 | Plus, Amazon kicked off the largest round of job cuts in the company's history, |
| 0:42.5 | all with an email. |
| 0:43.6 | Of course they did. |
| 0:45.1 | But first, a quick update on the debt ceiling. |
| 0:48.2 | If you remember on Wednesday's show, |
| 0:50.0 | we mentioned that the government was going to hit its borrowing cap soon. |
| 0:53.6 | Well, yesterday it actually happened. The government ran up against its legal debt limit of 31.381 |
| 1:00.2 | trillion dollars, which is a whole lot of money. |
| 1:03.2 | Okay? |
| 1:03.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.0 | In response, the Treasury Department sent a letter to congressional leaders stating that it has started |
| 1:08.8 | taking, quote, extraordinary measures to avoid the government defaulting on its financial obligations. |
| 1:14.9 | Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in the letter, quote, |
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