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Speaker 1: Well, now is time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief,

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Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news. And Today, Bloomberg Law

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Speaker 1: host Joon Grosso and Greg Sture discuss ethical questions emerging

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Speaker 1: after Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsch scheduled a speech at

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Speaker 1: the Trump International Hotel in Washington, d C. Next month,

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Speaker 1: less than two weeks before the Court is set to

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Speaker 1: hear arguments on the controversial travel band. They speak with

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Speaker 1: Ken Doyle, a senior editor for Bloomberg b NA. Is

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Speaker 1: this a case where you have a new justice that

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Speaker 1: should go out of his way to show impartiality. It

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Speaker 1: seems like the legal ethics and the legal scholars are on,

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Speaker 1: you know, of two minds on this, And I think,

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Speaker 1: of course that is now part of the court and

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Speaker 1: kind of joining in what the other justices are doing.

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Speaker 1: Whether that means that the public perceives all of the

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Speaker 1: justices as potentially, you know, not being able to be objective,

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Speaker 1: as being too political. I think that's I think that's

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Speaker 1: you know, a real question and something that may be

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Speaker 1: reflected in the fact that the public view as the

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Speaker 1: court is maybe too political and um, you know, it

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Speaker 1: has a somewhat declining credibility with the public. I think

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Speaker 1: we'll sell spell that out a little bit more ken

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Speaker 1: What what's the concern? I mean, a justice, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: believes what he or she believes. It's expressed in opinions. Um.

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Speaker 1: And they go before an audience that is likely to

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Speaker 1: be receptive to a lot of those views, and they

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Speaker 1: talk about those views. What is you know we would

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Speaker 1: see I think that would be the normal course for politicians. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: politicians are out there, um, you know, trying to raise

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Speaker 1: support among different constituencies and explaining themselves the constituencies that

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Speaker 1: some more interactive type of thing. And I guess traditionally

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Speaker 1: my view of the courts has been, you know, somewhat

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Speaker 1: more insulated from that, right, I mean, why do you

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Speaker 1: have the courts if they're just going to be acts

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Speaker 1: as another type of legislature and the judges be you know,

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Speaker 1: politician says. But but I do think that that is

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Speaker 1: maybe changing somewhat. You know, the court has become more political.

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Speaker 1: You know that, you know, you've covered all of these

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Speaker 1: confirmation battles and and and the arguments before the court,

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Speaker 1: and the Court has just perceived as a more political institution. Um.

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Speaker 1: And uh, but you know, is that, um where to

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Speaker 1: draw the line on that? I'm not really sure, as

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Speaker 1: Ken Doyle, a senior editor for Bloomberg v NA, speaking

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Speaker 1: with Bloomberg La host during Grosso and Greg Store. You

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