How to Get Someone to Police the Financial Schemes of the Justices

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Now and Then is a podcast from CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. We look to the American past to make sense of our current political and cultural climate. Recently, we've traced the tangled history of the New York County District Attorney's Office. And apparently, going head-to-head with Elon Musk is not half as difficult as answering questions about content moderation.

In a hearing today, the Senate Judiciary Committee took on the Supreme Court’s lack of ethics standards. ProPublica’s Joshua Kaplan explains how his reporting on Justice Clarence Thomas’s history of accepting gifts from a conservative megadonor led to increased scrutiny of the court.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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