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Dont impose your own ethics code, we will impose one on you with, and that includes recusal rules. so lets say they pass something like that. that would then, presumably, be adjudicated, if it were challenged, and until go up to the supreme court, i assume. >> yes. it would be an awkward matter to adjudicate. but the supreme court would be within its authority to adjudicate it because it is a law passed by congress, and it is the, it is -- there is a constitutional question here. and i suspect w...

Its not really defined, that seems like a pretty broad phase to -- phrase to me. and then those complaints would get vetted and go to the a panel of circuit court judges for review. it seems to me almost like an open-ended rolling impeachment process at -- paul: itd be open political season on the court anytime they issued an opinion that people didnt like. >> and similar to the recusal system. so the white house bill has a forced, congressionally-enforced recusal rules. republican witnesses wer...

Better recusal rules, more stringent rules, for justices on the supreme court. but instead, they recuse themselves and are only required to do that in a narrow subset of cases, in contrast to other parts of the court. general roberts has been a advocate himself for the -- that was the topic of his annual report to the nation at the end of last year. i believe this is going to call for increased scrutiny and increased pressure to improve those recusal rules to restore the legitimacy of the court....

Supreme court justice to vote, to block the january six committee from getting trumps papers. the fact that he did that, there is no consequences for that? >> currently, there are no consequences for. that there have been calls for better recusal rules, more stringent rules, for justices on the supreme court. but instead, they recuse themselves and are only required to do that in a narrow subset of cases, in contrast to other parts of the court. general roberts has been a advocate himself for th...

Investigated by mueller and his team. >> yeah, so setting aside the fact hes actually just flat out wrong on the facts, recusal rules and conflict rules are about the perception of fairness, about appearance here. i think anyone listening to that would have a reasonable question. >> gloria, this was the conclusion on january 15, 2017 just before obama left office for the russian community, we assess vladimir putin aimed at the usa presidential election, russias goals were to undermine public fai...

Investigations. i think his comments really do bring an appearance of bias in overseeing the investigation. both this is comments and the fact that the president, who is one of the subjects of this investigation, has picked him to oversee it i think makes it very hard under any fair department of justice recusal rules for him to oversee it. i dont think hes going to recuse himself. i think the president put him in this job because he is the person at doj who questioned it publicly so i think loo...

Circumstances. >> is that different from recusal rules at different levels? >> the difference is you can appeal a recusal in those situations. chief justice roberts hasnt exactly done well in terms of minding this line. the fact that he recently chastised the president for the state of the union and didnt mention once that justice alito had broken a long tradition of neutral by nodding no, and seems to be saying thats not true to the president, it was an outrageous act in terms of the traditions...