Durbin: Justice Alito Should Recuse Himself In Trump Cases
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
3.9 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Out front next, Justice Samuel Alito, throwing his wife under the bus, as calls grow for him to recuse himself from any cases related to Trump. |
| 0:10.0 | Those crucial opinions are expected any day. |
| 0:13.0 | And the nation's top constitutional expert, Lawrence Tribe, is out front. |
| 0:17.0 | Plus, MTG versus AOC. |
| 0:20.0 | Merger-Taylor Green now doubling down after a late-night |
| 0:22.5 | House brawl that played out on camera. The top Democrat in that hearing room is my guest. |
| 0:27.9 | And CNN's exclusive video of Sean Diddy Combs physically assaulting his former girlfriend. |
| 0:33.6 | A reporter who has long covered the mogul is out front. Is this just the tip of the iceberg? |
| 0:38.1 | Let's go out front. |
| 0:41.5 | And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett. |
| 0:43.1 | Out front tonight, my wife did it. |
| 0:45.2 | That is the excuse from Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. |
| 0:48.2 | As voices are growing louder for him to recuse himself from two crucial cases tied to Trump. |
| 0:53.7 | Cases that the nine justices are deciding right now. |
| 0:56.1 | We could find out in some of these any day. They're related to Trump's efforts to overturn the election. |
| 1:00.9 | And that is why this image is at issue. The image obtained by the New York Times was taken just days after the January 6th insurrection. |
| 1:07.6 | And as you see, that's the American flag intentionally flown upside down. |
| 1:11.7 | It is flying outside the home of Justice Samuel Alito. Now, that choosing to do that is a known |
| 1:19.3 | symbol of solidarity among Trump supporters who believe that the election was stolen. |
| 1:24.3 | Now, tonight, Alito is insisting that he had nothing to do with it, telling the New York |
| 1:28.4 | Times, quote, it was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor's use of objectionable |
| 1:33.7 | and personally insulting language on yard signs. Mrs. Alito, blaming his wife. While the |
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