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US SENATE SENATOR SHELDON WHITEHOUSE Rebel HQ: Supreme Court PISSED OFF The Wrong Democrat ... Now They’re Exposed PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGIhADrDDfk Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Senator Sheldon Whitehouse seems to know a lot about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ... much of which is very unsavory. Like most Americans, I do not think a lot about the operations or activities of the Supreme Court, but now that I have started to learn more about it, I am disgusted. In the relatively short time I have been paying attention to the antics of various Supreme Court justices ... Sheldon Whitehouse keeps popping up! Peter Burgess
Supreme Court PISSED OFF The Wrong Democrat… Now They’re Exposed Rebel HQ Nov 28, 2024 1.05M subscribers ... 134,585 views ... 9.5K likes #RebelHQ #News #politics Senator Sheldon Whitehouse calls out the Supreme Court’s disturbing trend of manipulating facts to benefit Republican interests. With unchecked power, the conservative majority risks eroding trust in the judiciary and undermining constitutional balance. Leave a comment with your thoughts below! #RebelHQ #News #politics Transcript 0:00 and the problem is that with respect to the nine justices of the Supreme Court and those nine individuals alone there is no place in the law for any proper fact finding to take place these justices won't allow themselves to be subjected to honest fact finding we really need to fix the rules over there and that's why this Supreme Court ethics effort that I'm engaged in is so important they should not be on an island of their own creation where no fact finding about what the truth is ever gets done Rhode Island Senator Sheldon White House has made a career out of trying to hold the Supreme Court accountable accountable for their blatant corruption and the broken set of rules that create the conditions for their corruption to take hold we are trying to fix three really simple problems one is fact finding fact finding ought not to be an issue in dispute every member of 1:02 government in the United States who is subject to any kind of supervision or ethics requirement which is everybody has a process whereby the actual facts are found of what went wrong hell even the president of the United States had to sit for a fact-f finding interview about the documents in his garage it's only nine people in the entirety of the United States government who think that they have no obligation to do any fact finding and that's pretty dangerous fact finding is a really basic Elemental proposition of our American judicial process and it applies everywhere it makes no sense for the body ultimately responsible for policing proper judicial process in the United States to not allow itself to participate in that most Elemental and fundamental task of there being actual fact-f finding the second is a principle so old it's in Latin for Pete say 2:00 Nemo judex in suaa no one should judge their own case that's pretty easy to understand and yet we let these justices alone in the United States nobody else get to be the judges of their own ethics and obviously they have failed to measure up and the third issue is transparency disclosure we know perfectly well that the justices have failed at their disclosure obligation and they can't keep their story straight about meeting their disclosure obligations we just had justice Thomas go back into his previous disclosures to correct them and tell the world and the judicial conference which was reviewing this that his F failure to file was an accidental error it was quote inadvertent but earlier he'd said about the same gifts from the same billionaire oh those don't have to be reported 3:00 that was personal Hospitality from a dear friend well which is it so the idea that you can trust a Supreme Court Justice with no independent review no fact finding each the judge in his own cause to follow the rules has been blown to Smither by the conduct of the Supreme Court Justices themselves it can't be said enough that we need more Fighters like White House in Congress who actually want to work for the people and make our country better Supreme Court ethics reform has well become one of the most dire political issues of our time and we need elected officials like him to speak truth to power from inside the government and wield their political leverage to improve the government and in turn all of our Lives the court has done its best to prevent the American people from fighting back through the Democratic process it's made it harder for ordinary people to vote while making 4:01 it easier for billionaires and DEP pocketed special interests to impose their will on the American people with unlimited amounts of dark money how did we get here a decades long scheme led by creepy billionaires and backed by a deluge of dark money captured the court like some crooked 19th century Railroad Commission this court captur operation was not cheap the latest estimate put it at more than $580 million and that's a minimum that money flowed in from creepy billionaires laundered through right-wing front groups like The Federalist society and judicial crisis Network where the donors the real donors could hide their identities behind the front groups doing their dirty work this dark money funded full scale 5:00 campaigns to stack the Supreme Court with justices who would deliver for the billionaires this has been a long and often lonely fight in the Senate the big money right-wing apparatus has tried over and over to shut me up I think I may have a record for hostile Wall Street Journal editorials and may I tell the Wall Street Journal editorial board thank you that is a badge of honor white else has it out for the Cor up conservative justices and the dark Money Networks run by Republican party Mega donors and other wealthy conservatives wanting to secure their influence over our society that bankrolled their rise to arguably the most powerful position in government recently White House has turned his Focus to one Maga Justice in particular yes we drank beer uh my friends and I the boys and girls yes we drank beer 6:00 I liked beer still like beer we drank beer sometimes probably had too many beers and sometimes other people had too many beers what we drank beer we like beer the White House has authorized the FBI to expand its limited background investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh giving the FBI the green light to interview anyone it deems necessary as long as the review is wrapped up by the end of the week I think the FBI should interview anybody that they want want within reason but you have to say within reason they should interview but they should also be guided and I'm being Guided by what the Senators are looking for back in 2018 Donald Trump's Administration was supposed to give the FBI free reign to investigate claims of sexual misconduct against Justice BR Kavanaugh and almost exactly four years later in 2022 we wanted to make sure that the White House had all the information we have so when the hundreds of calls started coming in uh uh we 7:00 gathered those up reviewed them and provided them to the White House investigation uh we reviewed them and then provided them to you reviewed them for purposes of separating from tip line traffic but did not further investigate the ones that related to CAU correct uh correct um is it also true that in that supplemental bi the FBI took direction from the White House as to whom the FBI would question and even what questions the FBI could ask in a limited supplemental bi uh we take direction from the requesting entity uh which in this case was the white house uh as to what followup they want and that's the direction we followed that's the direction we've consistently followed throughout the decades frankly uh you asked specifically about who no and what like who who we I said Is it true it is true as to the who as to the who I'm not sure as I said here whether it's also true as to the what questions but it is true as to The Who interviewed this is 8:00 like last call at the factual correction Saloon with respect to the Cavanaugh supplemental bi White House again tried to get answers from FBI director Christopher Ray about the background investigation into Kavanaugh leaving frustrated at the lack of transparency now just weeks ago and the best that the court Packers can come up with is well there's nothing new there and oh the timing is so SU supicious well as to nothing new there what's new is the White House had total control over every aspect of the administ of the investigation the FBI had no ground rules whatsoever uh to follow regarding supplemental background investigations the tip line was a complete sham with no tip ever investigated and they were told specifically not to get corroborating evidence when the Republicans all then went and said oh but there's no Cor operation so if the Republicans knew all 9:03 that shame on them and as to the timing Trump blocked me for two years of absolute stonewalling this week's report found that the Trump White House exercised total control over the investigation including preventing the FBI from following up on numerous leads and blocking interviews with key Witnesses the Trump Administration also allegedly instructed the FBI not to use its tip line instead forward tips that were intended for law enforcement directly to the White House so this was done under the rules for a supplemental background investigation which both the White House and the Department of Justice and the FBI declined to inform the American people meant there are no rules the White House makes every decision you know it's not surprising that the Trump Administration did this but it's still very alarming and dangerous that they participated in a sham investigation in very serious 10:00 claims about or against Brett Kavanagh we're talking about sexual misconduct claims okay and so when you take advantage and you abuse your power with this investigation over something very serious regardless of political affiliation that sets a terrible precedent it means a lot of people can get away with so many terrible things that are going to eventually that have a lot of effect on other people you know so it's to me there's a bigger discussion here right about how crooked our politics are and how much money influences politics it just incentivizes the corruption that we see

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