Conservative Supreme Court Justices Fight Calls for Recusal
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:37.0 | Should Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas recused themselves from the cases related to Donald |
| 0:46.6 | Trump and the 2020 election. |
| 0:50.2 | That's the political campaign underway as the Supreme Court |
| 0:54.5 | nears a ruling on Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity. |
| 0:59.5 | We'll talk about the political fight that is underway over the court and its decisions. |
| 1:07.0 | Plus, the territory of Hong Kong, formerly a British colony now granted autonomy by China supposedly convicts 14 Democratic activists of violating its national security law. |
| 1:19.8 | Another reminder of how China has swallowed up that territory which it had promised would have autonomy for 50 years after 1997. |
| 1:30.0 | And we'll talk about that with two veterans of Hong Kong as am I. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm Paul Geego, editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal on this Potomac |
| 1:38.3 | watch podcast. |
| 1:39.2 | I'm here with Colin Levy and Bill McGurn, both of whom lived in Hong Kong, working for the journal at one time or another, and we all love it a great deal. But let's first talk about the recusal fight. |
| 1:53.0 | This is taking ugly turn here recently. |
| 1:56.2 | Colin as the two senators, Dick Durbin of Illinois, |
| 1:59.9 | chairman of the Judiciary Committee, |
| 2:01.8 | and the man breathing down his neck, Sheldon White House of Rhode Island, wrote a letter demanding to Chief Justice John Roberts demanding that the Chief meet with them to discuss their recusal demand of Justice Samuel Alito. |
| 2:16.3 | The chief responded not by writing back, but Samuel Alito responded with a letter stating that he was not recuse himself. |
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