Should Congress Enact an Ethics Code for the Supreme Court and Can We Help Parolees onto the Right Path?
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 22 April 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this long-form weekend podcast - Glenn discusses legal reform and the legal recap of the week. First up: Glenn talks about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He's under fire after accepting luxury gifts and real estate from a billionaire GOP donor. Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin is now asking Chief Justice John Roberts to testify about ethics on May 2nd but will Roberts show up? Then he discusses the Dominion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. It has been settled for 3 quarters of a billion dollars but Smartmatic voting systems and others are also suing Fox. Will any of them make it to trial? Next he talks about Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg who has filed a lawsuit to stop Congressman Jim Jordan from talking with N.Y. Prosecutor Mark Pomerantz about his investigation of Donald Trump. A Trump appointed judge had denied Braggs request but then a federal appeals court issued an administrative stay temporarily blocking the deposition. Next Glenn speaks about reform. With recent mass shootings becoming more frequent and MAGA extremists shooting random people they feel is a threat - Glenn wonders -Is there something President Biden can do to stop the bloodshed? And lastly he discusses criminal reform. Prosecutors have not many options when they are faced with a decision on whether they should charge someone with a crime. Glenn explains there have been some success stories with diversion programs that can lessen the incarceration rate and actually help former criminals onto the right path and not back to jail.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters, with former Federal Prosecutor and MSNBC analyst, Glenn Kirschner. |
| 0:15.1 | In this long-form weekend podcast, Glenn discusses legal reform and the legal recap of the week. |
| 0:21.1 | First up, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is under fire after accepting luxury |
| 0:26.5 | gifts and real estate from a billionaire GOP donor. The Senate Judiciary Committee is now taking |
| 0:32.5 | steps towards accountability by setting a hearing to look at an ethical code of conduct for the Supreme |
| 0:37.6 | Court. Will Chief Justice Roberts appear? Here's Glenn. Welcome to the weekend edition of Justice |
| 0:44.9 | Matters. On the weekends, we try to air things out a bit, talk about the legal developments |
| 0:51.3 | of the week and then turn our attention to some topic of reform, reforming our government, |
| 0:58.4 | reforming our criminal justice system, just reforming this damn place to try to make it a little bit |
| 1:06.8 | better, a little bit more fair, a little bit more decent, more kind, more caring, more empathetic, |
| 1:15.1 | a little more just for everyone, not just the powerful, not just the influential that connected |
| 1:23.7 | the rich, wealthy, white men. Wouldn't it be nice if we could give everyone a fair shake? |
| 1:33.1 | Doesn't sound like too much to ask, does it? It sounds like a country in which I'd like to live. |
| 1:40.8 | I think we can get there. I believe we can get there. If I didn't think we could get there |
| 1:48.7 | to a better place, to a better country, I'd probably just get the hell out of Dodge, to be honest, |
| 1:55.4 | but I think the older I get, the older we get, we have to face up to reality that we're going to |
| 2:03.6 | be leaving an America for our kids, for our grandkids, for your kids, for your grandkids, |
| 2:12.8 | for our friends, our neighbors, our partners, our loved ones, for the people who |
| 2:18.0 | mean something to us. And I am really not interested in leaving everyone a dictatorship or an |
| 2:28.1 | autocracy. I'm really not interested in leaving a country where people are forever inundated with |
| 2:36.8 | the sounds of gunshots, you know, where gunshots fill the air every day, everywhere, where people |
| 2:45.1 | get shot for mistakenly ringing doorbells, mistakenly pulling into someone's driveway trying to |
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