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🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
0:08.8 | The Supreme Court is under attack in a way it has not been for many years, if not decades, |
0:13.8 | as Democrats in the press corps attack its ethical standards and even let's legitimacy. |
0:19.4 | This week, Senate Democrats hold a hearing that will target Justice Clarence Thomas in |
0:24.8 | particular. |
0:25.8 | The meantime, Justice Samuel Alito sat down with our James Toronto and a contributor |
0:30.4 | David Rivkin to talk about the court and the leak last year of his draft opinion in |
0:35.9 | the Dobbs abortion case. |
0:37.8 | Welcome. |
0:38.8 | I'm Paul J. Go with the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal. |
0:40.9 | I'm here with a four mentioned James Toronto, our editorial features editor and of course, |
0:46.4 | our regular Kim Strassel. |
0:48.3 | Welcome to you both James. |
0:50.6 | First, let's talk about your interview with Justice Alito, which took place last month |
0:55.2 | and of course, we published Friday, picked up everywhere, made a lot of news. |
1:00.3 | Tell us what was on the Justice's mind. |
1:02.6 | Well, the biggest news he made was the revelation that he thinks he knows who was behind the |
1:07.2 | leak. |
1:08.2 | Now what happened was the Chief Justice assigned the Marshal of the Court, who is in charge |
1:12.5 | of the Supreme Court police to investigate, but the Marshal of the Court has limited investigative |
1:17.2 | powers and she questioned a lot of people and came up with. |
1:21.4 | They put out a report in January, which was unclear as to how much they had narrowed |
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