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🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi there everyone it's 4 o'clock in New York and an important question hung in the air |
0:12.4 | looming over hearing on Capitol Hill today regarding the ethical lapses of one of our |
0:17.8 | government's three branches. Should Supreme Court justices be held to the same standard |
0:23.6 | as any and all other public servants? The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing |
0:28.2 | on the ethical standards or lack thereof for Supreme Court justices. The topic that |
0:33.4 | has come up over and over and over again in light of new reporting on repeated failures |
0:39.1 | by justices to disclose details of lavish vacations. Travel, gifts, even real estate transactions. |
0:47.2 | Testifying on behalf of Democrats, a former federal judge and a group of legal experts, |
0:52.1 | yes invited by Republicans included a former attorney general. But even more notable than |
0:57.1 | who testified was who did not testify. Chief Justice John Roberts declined an invitation |
1:03.2 | from the committee, something Senate Judiciary Chair Dictorben brought up at the start of |
1:08.1 | today's hearing. |
1:10.4 | In his letter last week the Chief Justice also sent what he called a statement of ethics, |
1:15.3 | principles and practices. It was a document that was attached to his letter. It is an |
1:21.2 | extraordinary document, not in a good way. It makes clear that while the justices are |
1:26.7 | fine with consulting with certain authorities on how to address ethical issues, they do |
1:32.4 | not feel bound by those same authorities. Last month we learned about a justice who for |
1:37.2 | years has accepted lavish trips and real estate purchases worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. |
1:45.8 | From a billionaire with interest before the court, that justice failed to disclose these |
1:51.2 | gifts and has faced no apparent consequences under the court's ethics principles. That |
1:57.1 | justice claims that lengthy cruises aboard a luxury yacht are personal hospitality and |
2:04.5 | are exempt under current ethical standards from even being reported. The fact that a |
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