Strictly Scrutinizing The Ethics Code
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court announced its first-ever ethics code on Monday after pressure from Congress and the public. But it’s unclear how the code – signed by all nine justices – will be enforced. We’re joined by Leah Litman, co-host of Crooked’s Strict Scrutiny podcast, to make sense of it all.
And in headlines: thousands of people fled Gaza’s largest hospital as fighting continues outside the facility, protesters and police clashed at Monday’s Cop City protests, and Chuck E. Cheese is getting rid of animatronics in nearly all of its locations around the country.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, November 14th. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Trayvon Anderson, and this is what a day, |
| 0:07.0 | the pod that you can give all your gifts to. |
| 0:10.0 | Taylor Swift recently asked fans in Argentina not to throw her gifts on stage. |
| 0:14.0 | So you know what, we'll take them. |
| 0:15.5 | We love gifts. |
| 0:16.5 | Yes, I don't care what you're celebrating. |
| 0:18.9 | Christmas, Hanukkah Kwanza, Bastille Day, I like gifts for everything. |
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| 0:27.8 | On today's show, protesters and police clash that yesterday's Cop City protests |
| 0:36.0 | plus a fire closed a major freeway in LA indefinitely. |
| 0:40.0 | But first the Supreme Court announced yesterday |
| 0:42.0 | that it adopted its first ever ethics code. |
| 0:45.0 | All nine justices signed on to the new code. |
| 0:48.0 | Now, the fact that we even got a code from these justices isn't actually that surprising. |
| 0:52.0 | It means that the pressure from Congress and the public |
| 0:54.2 | to create one worked, but what's actually in the code? We wanted to talk to someone who |
| 0:58.4 | might know a little bit more. So Trevel, I spoke with someone who helped me make a |
| 1:01.6 | bit more sense of this mess. And I think I someone who helped me make a bit more sense of this mess and I think |
| 1:04.0 | I know who it is yes it was Clarence Thomas himself oh wow just kidding it was our |
| 1:10.9 | dear friend of the pod Leah Littman from the strict scrutiny podcast. |
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