Bringing SCOTUS Up To Code

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on a bill today that would impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court. While Democrats say the move is necessary in light of recent reports about Justice Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito's relationship with GOP mega donors, the legislation is unlikely to become law due to strong opposition from Republicans.

Private health insurance companies have denied millions of requests for care from Medicaid recipients with little to no oversight, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services. Its inspector general found high rates of denials for lower-income patients, but many states don't review – or even collect – data on such refusals.

And in headlines: Stanford University’s president will resign following an investigation into his past research, Phoenix, Arizona logged its 20th consecutive day of temperatures over 110 degrees, and the ACLU asked a federal judge to transfer juvenile prisoners out of Louisiana's notorious Angola prison amid brutal summer heat.

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, July 20th.
0:03.0	I'm Priyanka Arabindi.
0:04.3	And I'm wanting to tell everyone this is what a day,
0:06.2	with a message for anyone who's undecided on whether to see the Barbie movie
0:10.0	or Oppenheimer this weekend.
0:11.7	I said, you already know what the right answer is here.
0:14.8	You're just going to see both.
0:16.3	It's fine.
0:17.1	And stay in the AC.
0:18.8	Like, that's the whole point anyway.
0:20.4	Seriously, you're like six hours in the AC with that.
0:23.3	Perfect, win, win, win, all around.
0:30.9	On today's show, Stanford University's president will step down,
0:34.5	following a review of concerns about the integrity of his research,
0:38.4	plus, searing heat has smashed temperature records in the southwest.
0:42.4	But first, today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on a bill
0:46.2	that would impose a new code of ethics on the Supreme Court and its justices.
0:51.9	This follows, if you have been paying attention,
0:54.7	a series of bombshell reporting from ProPublica on Justice's Clarence Thomas,
0:59.8	and Samuel Alito, and the lack of definitive action afterwards
1:04.0	from Chief Justice John Roberts.
1:06.2	That reporting centered around Thomas and Alito's respective
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