CAFE Insider 5/2: Why Did Roberts Refuse To Testify?

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss Chief Justice John Roberts’s refusal to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Supreme Court’s ethics rules. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce break down: – Former Vice President Mike Pence’s reported testimony before a grand jury in DOJ’s January 6 investigation; and – Writer E. Jean Carroll’s testimony in her battery and defamation case against former President Donald Trump. Stay informed. For analysis of the most important legal and political issues of our time, become a member of CAFE Insider for one month for $1.00: www.cafe.com/insider. You’ll get access to full episodes of the podcast, and other exclusive benefits. This podcast is brought to you by CAFE Studios and Vox Media Podcast Network. Check out other CAFE podcasts: Now & Then, Up Against The Mob Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, Pete here.
0:03.2	Another busy week of politically charged legal news making the headlines.
0:06.7	Former Vice President Mike Pence made history last week when he testified before January
0:10.8	6th grand jury.
0:12.3	In other news, Chief Justice John Roberts declined an invitation to testify before the Senate
0:17.2	Judiciary Committee about the Supreme Court's ethics rules.
0:20.6	And writer E. Jean Carroll took the stand to testify in her battery and defamation case
0:25.4	against former President Donald Trump.
0:27.6	Joyce Vance and I discuss all of this and more on the Cafe Insider podcast.
0:31.9	Today we're sharing an excerpt from the episode with listeners of Stay Tuned.
0:35.9	To hear our full conversation and access all other Cafe Insider content, try the membership
0:40.9	for just $1 for one month.
0:43.2	You can do that at Cafe.com slash insider.
0:46.5	That's Cafe.com slash insider.
0:49.5	We look forward to having you as a part of the insider community.
0:53.0	So we're talking about Supreme Court ethics.
0:57.3	Let's see that.
0:58.3	So we've been talking about this for some weeks.
1:00.2	People will recall there are these issues relating to whether or not the Supreme Court should
1:04.2	have a binding ethics code, which it doesn't.
1:07.8	They have something.
1:08.8	We can talk about what that is and how effective it is.
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