SCOTUS: John Roberts urges the partisans to cease intimidation strategies directed at the judiciary. Richard Epstein, Civitas Institute.
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🗓️ 4 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchew with my colleague Richard Epstein. |
| 0:03.0 | He teaches law at NYU in the University of Chicago. |
| 0:06.0 | He's a senior research fellow at the Kivitas Institute at the University of Texas. |
| 0:10.0 | And we're discussing commentary written by the Wall Street Journal editorial page |
| 0:16.0 | about a letter that the Chief Justice has written, John Roberts, |
| 0:20.0 | mentioning that there have been instances |
| 0:22.3 | in the Biden administration in which judges have been either intimidated or threatened outright, |
| 0:29.8 | as a case of Mr. Kavanaugh and a man near to his home with a weapon and intentions to do the chief, the associate justice harm. |
| 0:40.3 | But the complaint also includes the President of the United States ignoring or in some |
| 0:47.3 | fashion dismissing decisions by the judiciary, which is a completely independent part of our |
| 0:53.3 | government. |
| 0:59.0 | Richard, you've read through the document that the editorial page puts up. |
| 1:01.5 | They mentioned in three instances. |
| 1:09.4 | The Dobbs case, that's about Mr. Kavanaugh's risk from a shooter who was intercepted near his home, |
| 1:11.8 | but as I understand, even the protests near the home are prohibited under the understanding of judicial officers. |
| 1:17.3 | But we also have the president himself |
| 1:20.5 | ignoring the Supreme Court's rejection of his student loan forgiveness. |
| 1:25.0 | We have the president himself ignoring the question of moratorium on eviction. |
| 1:30.6 | In other words, they were taking advantage of private landlords with additional money being |
| 1:36.1 | passed out. In general, the complaint by the Wall Street Journal page is that Mr. Biden has |
| 1:42.2 | been very bad to his judiciary. Do you agree and does John Roberts |
| 1:46.8 | have a remedy? Well, I certainly do agree with this. As I regard, as I mentioned earlier on in the show, |
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