Quick Take: Just How Ethical Is the Supreme Court?

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This is an excerpt from the full episode, "Trump Trial, Supreme Court 'Ethics' & Thanksgiving Table Conversation: With Tom Nichols, Elie Mystal and Glenn Kirschner."

Michael is joined by Tom Nichols, Elie Mystal and Glenn Kirschner for a barbershop discussion on current events and politics. They discuss why Democrats are better off without Joe Manchin, how Trump passed the line into fascism and what the Supreme Court "Code of Ethics" really means.

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Tom Nichols is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. He writes about international security, nuclear weapons, Russia, and the challenges to democracy in the United States and around the world.

Elie Mystal is The Nation’s justice correspondent and the host of its legal podcast, “Contempt of Court.” He is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution.”

Glenn Kirschner is a former federal prosecutor with 30 years of trial experience. He served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia for 24 years. He hosts “Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner."

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0:00.0	Hey Michael Steele podcast listeners, Michael Steele here with another quick take from the Michael Steele
0:13.0	podcast check out what's going on right now.
0:16.0	Welcome back everybody to Michael Steele
0:18.0	podcast. I'm so excited. I'm getting it. I'm getting a Slimden trim
0:21.5	because Thanksgiving's here.
0:23.8	I got a lot to be thankful for it.
0:25.1	I have my friends joining us this afternoon
0:29.3	here at the Michael Still Podcasts, Tom Nichols, Ellen Mistol, and Glenn Kirsner.
0:36.6	Welcome, gentlemen again, and thank you for that inspiring.
0:41.3	Send off to break.
0:42.3	It was a good one.
0:45.4	So since you raised the point,
0:48.1	um,
0:49.8	Ellie, I want to talk to you about your peace in the nation, which I thank you. I totally got where you were going with this. The headline is, goodbye Joe Manchin, we won't miss you. And tell us in your words why we won't miss
1:11.5	Joe Manchin and why Democrats in the at the end of the day are better off because Tom I'm coming to you next on your piece in the Atlantic which we touched on a little bit in the beginning of our conversation but but Ellie what what's the deal with mansion and why the Democrats frets so?
1:30.0	Democrats they just stop wedding the bed every time you know the light could there something
1:34.8	goes bump in the night and Joe Manchin retiring is a bump in the night I get that the
1:40.3	Democrats have a very difficult chance to hang on to the Senate.
1:45.2	I get that you can't, you can only lose one of West Virginia, Arizona, Montana, or Ohio. You can only lose one and Manchin not running means that that one is likely going to be West Virginia. But here's the thing. Mansion was always gonna lose West Virginia.
2:03.5	Jim Justice, the current Republican governor of West Virginia,
2:08.1	is running for that Senate seat
2:09.9	and he's been whooping mansion all up and down from Huntington to Wheeling he's been whooping
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