Elliot Williams

The most fucking up cases that they wanna bring.

Okay, is that better?

No, it screws up.

It screws up cases that that they want to bring, because the person at the top of the office, courts are seeing that person as improperly in the role.

And so it's a problem, not just for partisan reasons, it's literally damaging the very work that apparently they put their folks in to do just mind blowing.

It's really interesting.

Every president is entitled to put in people that share what he thinks is his judicial vision or what he wants to put on the court.

All sorts of presidents have done it.

You really touched on something important with the Samuel Alito flags issue, which is something I've commented about publicly quite a lot when it happened.

The court's allowed to have conservatives on it.

It's allowed to have people that have those views.

The moment you fly a flag in front of your house,

expressing a political view, you have tainted your ability as a Supreme Court justice to hear cases on that issue.

And that issue came up.

So, Samuel Alito had flown a flag on his house that some January 6th folks were seen to have flown.

And many observers thought, wait a second, that's endorsement of a side.

Something I said

Jennifer, to your friend Scott Jennings on air around this issue is imagine two things.

One, I am an Eagle Scout, proudly.

If I were a judge and flew a Boy Scouts of America banner on my house,