SCOTUS News Roundup: Ethics and Oversight
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Kate Shaw, law professor at Cardozo Law School, ABC Supreme Court contributor and cohost of the "Strict Scrutiny" podcast, and, Andrea Bernstein, journalist, host of "We Don't Talk About Leonard" podcast from ProPublica & On The Media (previous podcasts: Will be Wild and Trump, Inc) and the author of American Oligarchs: The Kushners, The Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), break down the latest Supreme Court headlines, including the passing of former Justice Sandra Day O’Conner, a case that seeks to limit administrative bodies of power, and the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subpoenas of two individuals embroiled in ethics scandals plaguing sitting justices.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Leer on Wnyc and this is WNYC, FM HD NAM New York, WENJT |
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| 0:26.6 | We are in New York and New Jersey, public radio and live streaming at WNYC.org. There's a lot of news coming out of the Supreme Court over the last week. |
| 0:36.0 | Of course on Friday morning the country learned of the passing of Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to ever sit on the bench. We'll take some time in this segment to |
| 0:45.3 | look back on her legacy a little bit, including how she defended on this show |
| 0:50.5 | what may have been her most controversial decision as a Supreme Court justice |
| 0:54.7 | some of you can probably guess what that was but something you may have missed |
| 0:58.4 | about the Supreme Court from last week is a case that seeks to limit our |
| 1:01.8 | country's administrative bodies of power. |
| 1:05.2 | And if that sounds kind of dry and wonky, imagine a future in which administrative institutions |
| 1:11.4 | in our country cannot do the things that they do at the federal government level like, oh, regulate financial markets, oh, decide what goes into our food and medicine? Oh, regulate the environment, |
| 1:23.8 | or Howard kept safe in the workplace. |
| 1:26.3 | More on that coming up. |
| 1:27.9 | Another case we'll check in on involves the Sackler family |
| 1:32.1 | and whether or not they're evading justice for their involvement in manufacturing the opioid crisis. |
| 1:38.0 | That goes to the Supreme Court today. |
| 1:40.0 | And we'll touch on how at the Senate Judiciary Committee they have subpoenaed |
| 1:46.2 | Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow two individuals as some of you know embroiled in |
| 1:51.8 | ethics scandals plaguing justices now on the court |
| 1:55.9 | especially Clarence Thomas. So joining us now for the Supreme Court roundup, Kate Shaw |
| 2:02.4 | law professor at the Cardozo Law School |
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