Sheldon Whitehouse's Plan to Police the Supreme Court

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Senate Judiciary Committee takes up a Democratic bill to impose "ethics" and recusal rules on the Justices. But would this restore or undermine public confidence, and is it constitutional? Plus, reporters question Justice Sonia Sotomayor's book tours and Venmo reimbursements for Clarence Thomas's Christmas parties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.6	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:25.5	Senate Democrats prepared to take up their Supreme Court reform bill as the parade of ethics
0:31.0	complaints continues in the press.
0:33.2	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:36.1	We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Colin Levy and columnist Alicia
0:41.8	Finley.
0:42.8	Welcome to you both this week.
0:44.2	The Senate Judiciary Committee is planning to mark up and vote on the Supreme Court
0:49.2	Reform Bill offered by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
0:53.6	It is called the Supreme Court Ethics Recusal and Transparency Act.
0:58.4	Here is a piece of a statement by White House and the Judiciary Committee's chairman, Dick
1:02.9	Durbin.
1:04.0	The belief that justices should not be held accountable or even disclose lavish gifts
1:08.6	from wealthy benefactors is in a front to the nation.
1:11.6	They were chosen to serve to hold these nine justices to the same standard as every other
1:16.2	federal judge is not a radical or partisan notion.
1:20.0	And here's a clip of Sheldon Whitehouse expanding on that argument on the floor last
1:25.2	week.
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