Elliot Williams

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443 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 26 Jun

Elliot Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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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,
and the Boy Scouts had a case before me and they were being sued or suing somebody, I could not be, even if I were fair in my heart, I could not be seen as fair by the public based on the public position I'd taken on how I decorated my house.
And the Alito thing was exactly that.
So we've lost some of this veneer or notion that justices are or ought to be apolitical.
And it just seems to have gotten more extreme in the past years.
Yeah, it's interesting.
It's definitely whiplash and all of media is figuring out who they are and what their voices are in this world.
Now, on this idea of toughness versus submissiveness or whatever else, which is something fascinating that I've thought about quite a bit.
And quite frankly, stay with me for a second, in the immigration context too, so much of
what governs policy coming out of Washington right now is about the toughness and the masculinity and the aggressiveness.
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