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Skullduggery

Buried Treasure: Breach of decorum

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

42K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Buried Treasure, co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman look back upon Barack Obama's 2010 State of the Union Address which became memorable when Judge Alito shook his head after the President criticized the Supreme Court for their ruling on Citizens United. Flash forward to present day, President Trump takes aim at the 9th Circuit Court calling every case "an automatic loss for the administration" due to "Obama Judges." Former Newsweek Legal Affairs Editor David Kaplan joins and weighs in on the controversies both then and now.

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0:00.0

With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century

0:07.3

of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations

0:14.7

to spend without limit in our elections.

0:21.5

That was President Barack Obama giving his State-of-the-Union address in 2010, ripping

0:26.6

into the U.S. Supreme Court over one of its most controversial decisions in years, a

0:32.0

ruling in a case known as Citizens United, that gave the green light for unlimited, undisclosed

0:37.9

contributions to U.S. political campaigns.

0:41.3

As Democrats jumped to their feet and cheered the President, the black robe justices of

0:46.2

the United States Supreme Court sat silently, stone-faced, except for one of them, Samuel

0:51.7

Alito, who visibly mowed the words not true.

0:55.8

It was a memorable moment worth recalling now in light of Chief Justice John Roberts'

1:01.0

extraordinary review last week of President Trump for his attacks on the federal judiciary.

1:07.4

That's our subject on today's buried treasure.

1:10.3

There is absolutely no collusion.

1:13.0

I didn't make a phone call to Russia.

1:14.9

I have nothing to do with Russia.

1:17.0

Everybody knows it.

1:19.1

People have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop.

1:21.9

Well, I'm not a crook.

1:24.6

I told the American people I did not trade arms for justice.

1:29.5

My heart and my death's intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

1:34.9

tell me it is not.

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