Contempt & The Court (with Joan Biskupic)

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Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 32.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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On this episode of Stay Tuned, "Contempt & The Court," host Preet Bharara answers your questions about: -- Why he didn’t sign on to the statement by former federal prosecutors asserting that if Trump were not the president, he would be charged with obstruction of justice. -- What Attorney General Bill Barr would do had Special Counsel Bob Mueller recommended indicting the president -- Whether lying to the media is a crime, and -- The extent to which federal investigators share evidence with their state counterparts Joan Biskupic, Supreme Court biographer and a veteran journalist, joins Preet for a discussion of her most recent book, The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts. Currently a full-time analyst for CNN, Biskupic has covered the Court for over three decades starting as a reporter at The Washington Post in the early 1990s. Bonus clips from the interview are available for members of the CAFE Insider community Sign up to receive free references and supplemental materials for Stay Tuned episodes, a weekly newsletter, and updates from Preet. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at [email protected], or call 699-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.9	From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tune. I'm Prit Barara. My basic philosophy in writing about
1:03.3	the Supreme Court has always been, this is your Supreme Court. I want people to learn
1:10.0	about what happens. I want people to be intrigued by things. I want people to feel like they
1:14.7	know these justices a little bit more and pay more attention to the rulings that will
1:19.8	be coming soon as we head into June. That's Joan Biscupic. While reporting on the highest
1:25.4	court in the land for the past 30 years, Joan wrote four biographies of Supreme Court
1:29.7	justices, including most recently, the chief, the life and turbulent times of chief justice
1:34.8	John Roberts. We discussed that third and most mysterious branch of government, why it
1:39.5	deserves close attention and why it's important to understand the people behind the robes.
1:44.6	That's coming up. Stay tuned.
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