Washington Today (5-2-23): Partisan split at Senate committee hearing on Supreme Court ethics

Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on Supreme Court Justice ethics, after recent reports that some justices did not reports gifts and real-estate sales that could be potential conflicts of interest. Committee's Democratic Chair Dick Durbin saying the Supreme Court has "refused" to "step up and fix this themselves." Committee's ranking republican Lindsey Graham criticizing what he calls "a concentrated effort by the left to delegitimize this court and to cherry-pick examples to make a point”.

Coming up, portions of today's hearing and we will talk with Washington Post Legal Affairs Reporter Ann Marimow.

When President Biden meets with the bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate a week from now on the national debt ceiling and avoiding a default, what will they talk about, if the president says he will not negotiate adding spending cuts to a debt limit increase bill, as House republicans are insisting on? We will hear from the Senate Democratic and Republican leaders and the White House Press Secretary.

Biden Administration announces 1,500 more U.S. troops being sent to the U.S.-Mexico border as next week the Title 42 public health emergency migrant expulsion authority expires…and a surge of migrants is expected… The troops will NOT be doing law enforcement… but instead administrative work, freeing up Customs and Border Patrol Agents.

A Muslim mayor who was barred from the White House Monday night by the Secret Service says he believes it was due to racial profiling…. saying “there’s no doubt in my mind that at this point, my crime is my race, my religion and my name.”

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Title: Washington Today (5-2-23): Partisan split at Senate committee hearing on Supreme Court ethics
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