The Supreme Court’s corruption crisis

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In a hearing today, the Senate Judiciary Committee took on the Supreme Court’s lack of ethics standards. ProPublica’s Joshua Kaplan explains how his reporting on Justice Clarence Thomas’s history of accepting gifts from a conservative megadonor led to increased scrutiny of the court. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	For almost one month now, stories have been trickling out about the personal finances
0:05.3	of United States Supreme Court justices.
0:10.4	Private jets, real estate deals, conflicts of interest.
0:13.6	The kinds of things you'd want to disclose to your boss if you were an unelected government
0:16.8	employee who wielded God-like powers.
0:19.9	Except the justices weren't doing a ton of disclosing, and it's been raising lots of
0:24.6	eyebrows.
0:25.6	And today, all that eyebrow raising culminated in a Senate Judiciary hearing.
0:30.1	Highest court in the land should not have the lowest economic ethical standards.
0:34.8	We're holding our own hearing that today explained, we're going to talk to a guy who helped
0:38.0	break the original story about Clarence Thomas and his billionaire Bestie, and we're
0:42.0	going to ask why the Supreme Court is so bad at accountability, and whether its current
0:47.1	corruption crisis might change anything.
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