The Political Battle Over the Supreme Court
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:33.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:39.2 | The political battle over the Supreme Court shows no sign of having as Democrats escalate |
| 0:45.1 | their attacks, including demands that conservative justices recuse themselves from hearing |
| 0:51.4 | certain cases. What's the logic behind this new progressive demand? |
| 0:55.6 | And what impact would it have on the court and an independent judiciary? |
| 1:01.5 | Welcome. I'm Paul Gigo Editor of the Journal of Opinion Pages. |
| 1:05.1 | And today I'm joined by James Toronto. He's the journal editorial page features editor, |
| 1:10.3 | who's responsible for the op-eds and editing the columnists. |
| 1:14.4 | But he's also a student of constitutional law and the Supreme Court. |
| 1:18.0 | And it was one of the journal editors who recently interviewed |
| 1:21.6 | Justice Samuel Alito for four hours over two occasions. The two interviews, one in April, |
| 1:27.6 | and one in July, both on the record, both made news. And they were especially valuable. |
| 1:33.2 | In my opinion, as an insight into Justice Alito's jurisprudence. But the media and the Democrats, |
| 1:40.4 | they don't mean to be redundant. Didn't like that he spoke with us or what he said. |
| 1:46.8 | And we'll talk about how this is playing out now politically. I should add that I |
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