Biden's SCOTUS Reforms, With Legal Expert Dahlia Lithwick.
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🗓️ 13 August 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Dahlia Lithwick, the Senior Legal Correspondent for Slate Magazine, discusses President Biden's proposed reforms to the Supreme Court. Lithwick believes that Biden's efforts this time are more meaningful and that it is important to have a conversation about potential changes to the court. She highlights the need for term limits for justices, stating that it would keep ideas fresh and depoliticize the institution. Lithwick also emphasizes the importance of a binding code of conduct for justices, as it would hold them accountable for ethical issues. She mentions that there are bills in Congress to address these issues. However, Biden did not mention increasing the number of justices, which Lithwick believes is outside of what he is willing to support. Bill and Dahlia also briefly touch on ongoing cases involving Stormy Daniels, the January 6th attack on the Capitol, and the documents case.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, it's the Bill Press pod. So good to see you again. Welcome back. You know, there's been so much |
| 0:13.7 | exciting political news lately. Joe Biden passing the torch to Kamala Harris. Kamala tapping |
| 0:19.0 | Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as our vice presidential |
| 0:22.0 | running mate, and the Democratic Party exploding in exuberance. So much news that one very |
| 0:28.8 | important development hasn't received nearly the attention it deserves. I'm talking about President |
| 0:34.9 | Biden's bold, even revolutionary proposal to shake up the Supreme Court. |
| 0:41.8 | It's no secret that thanks largely to the extreme right political appointments by Donald Trump, |
| 0:47.8 | the corruption of Clarence Thomas and Samuel Lito, and the lack of leadership by John Roberts, |
| 0:57.2 | no secret that the court has lost all credibility and is now widely considered the legal arm of the MAGA movement. That's a drain on |
| 1:04.6 | democracy, President Biden insists. We need to get the court back in good public standing, |
| 1:11.0 | and even though it's unlikely that anything could happen before he leaves office, |
| 1:16.2 | Biden has put forth a plan to reform the court or at least start a public conversation about it. |
| 1:24.1 | And veteran court watchers like our guest today, Slate Magazine's Dahlia Lithwick, say, |
| 1:30.8 | It's About Time. |
| 1:33.2 | Hey, what a pleasure to say hello again to Dahlia Lithwick. |
| 1:36.2 | Dalia, welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:38.3 | Good to connect with you. |
| 1:39.5 | It's good to talk to you. |
| 1:40.6 | It's been a minute. |
| 1:41.9 | It has been a minute, bad on us, right? |
| 1:44.6 | No, no. You know, there's been so much news lately, but what got loss in the news of |
| 1:51.3 | Kamala Harris and Tim Walls is that President Biden, at the end of July, made a very big |
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