After a nearly three-month medical absence from the Senate, Diane Feinstein returned to Washington on Tuesday night. Her return will restore a Democratic majority to the Senate Judiciary Committee where Democrats need her vote to confirm federal judges and conduct investigations into the ethics of Supreme Court justices. Both sides stuck to their original bargaining positions with Biden demanding that Congress raise the debt ceiling unconditionally and McCarthy insisting that such a move be accompanied by big spending cuts.
This episode contains detailed descriptions of sexual assault.
A jury in Manhattan has found former President Donald J. Trump legally liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll.
Ben Weiser, who covers the Manhattan federal courts for The Times, tells the story of how a nearly 30-year-old case reached this moment.
Guest: Benjamin Weiser, a correspondent for The New York Times covering the Manhattan federal courts.
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