It’s Time for the Chief Justice to Resign | The West Wing

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  • Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
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    Season 5 Episode 7: Separation of Power
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  • @elizabethmckenna5397
    @elizabethmckenna5397 День тому +92

    Matthew Perry was such a good actor. He shined in this role. May he Rest in Peace.

  • @czarspan3057
    @czarspan3057 2 дні тому +102

    An incredibly human reaction from Joe here, I remember my family being shocked that he would lie even for a moment about the Justice’s condition. But in that moment he’s not only frustrated with the prevailing political winds, but heartbroken that Toby was right.

    • @brontewcat
      @brontewcat День тому +3

      I agree. I think I would have lied at that moment too.

    • @86hj49gt
      @86hj49gt День тому

      Do you suppose he knew that the end was near enough? Never saw the show, but that message seemed to be sent and received.

  • @kyle381000
    @kyle381000 2 дні тому +125

    Toby's fictional concerns are now becoming reality.

    • @jamespurs
      @jamespurs День тому +5

      Unfortunatly they are.

    • @charliesmith4072
      @charliesmith4072 День тому +7

      Thomas and Alito were already on the Court waiting for the Three Fools.

    • @phhpr
      @phhpr День тому +1

      Sad but true

    • @GeorgeLiquor
      @GeorgeLiquor 23 години тому

      @@charliesmith4072 hyperpartisans are the dumbest people on the planet

    • @2013jpm
      @2013jpm 6 годин тому

      @@charliesmith4072 - classy, your Honor.

  • @dictatorinperpetuity
    @dictatorinperpetuity 2 дні тому +82

    Whoever is uploading for the channel is on point today!

    • @cards0486
      @cards0486 2 дні тому +4

      Thinking back to Matthew’s time on WEST WING I think of this storyline. Joe loves the Chief Justice so much, and his heart aches.
      And all these Democrats in charge have tunnel vision, only interested in what they need. Toby, especially, can forget to even think of the other person’s feelings.
      I’m glad to finally have the season and episode listed so I can follow all of Joe’s time in the Bartlett White House.

    • @baseball43v3r
      @baseball43v3r День тому

      Did a supreme court justice go into a coma today or something?

  • @charliethesupebeagle
    @charliethesupebeagle 20 годин тому +4

    This cannot possibly be a coincidence.

  • @blackspider1405
    @blackspider1405 2 дні тому +59

    1. Kudos to whoever uploaded this today of all days.
    2. Matthew was incredible in his time on The West Wing
    3. Toby was right. Painful and inhumane as it appeared to be, Toby was right.

  • @carrickrichards2457
    @carrickrichards2457 День тому +9

    You hear so often from family of the frail, dying and very elderley: 'He always bounces back' and 'he's a fighter' or 'He's in really good health'.

    • @michaelhayden725
      @michaelhayden725 День тому +1

      Imho this was a classic example of why Supreme Court and federal court justices should have age limits. In Australia about 40+ years ago we made 75 the mandatory retirement age and our legal system hasn’t fallen apart! Also ALL our High Court (the equivalent of the US Supreme Court) justices are expected to recuse themselves from any possible political decisions!

    • @JonSmith-hk1bq
      @JonSmith-hk1bq День тому

      @@michaelhayden725 Huh? Who is left if everyone's recusing themselves?

    • @michaelhayden725
      @michaelhayden725 21 годину тому

      @@JonSmith-hk1bq the 6 who were not nominated by DTrump, they at least have shown some impartiality.

    • @JonSmith-hk1bq
      @JonSmith-hk1bq 11 годин тому

      ​@@michaelhayden725 That doesn't answer the question. Which was who makes the decision of everyone is mandated to recuse?
      And just so you know, when tabulating their rulings, Trump's nominees make up 3 of the 4 members most moderate members of the court. The Democrat-nominated members comprise the 5th, 6th, and 9th most moderate. So, there's really no cause for your statement. Trump's judges are actually very serious people.

  • @MikeWood
    @MikeWood 2 дні тому +8

    There is something in the West Wing to suit anything currently going on in DC. Case in point posting this after last Thursday.

  • @FlameKoRn
    @FlameKoRn 2 дні тому +54

    This is a great call to how there should be age limits to public office.

    • @Valehass
      @Valehass 2 дні тому +8

      This and the most recent presidential debate.

    • @tcerathi
      @tcerathi 2 дні тому +3

      Funny how that only seems to apply to one side

    • @auklaxer
      @auklaxer День тому +3

      Age limits? No. Capability test? Yes.

    • @brontewcat
      @brontewcat День тому +1

      Not necessarily age limits, but cognitive and ethical tests. I am not sure which candidate would fare worse.

    • @ronaldtipton6035
      @ronaldtipton6035 День тому +6

      Capability, cognitive, and ethical tests are all subjective. You can't argue against a birth certificate. Many state and local level judges have age limits already. There's absolutely no reason not to change the supreme court justice appointments to "up to age XX." I suggest age 72, maybe age 75.
      If most of the general public retires by age 70 or 72 (if not before), then that's good enough for politicians and judges too.

  • @alexb6234
    @alexb6234 День тому +5

    I would have thrown a "he really appreciated your concern" line as I walked away.

  • @charliethesupebeagle
    @charliethesupebeagle 20 годин тому +1

    Good timing for this video.

  • @nina1608
    @nina1608 14 годин тому

    What a great show his was! So many of the political topics have returned in ridiculous form today.

  • @charliethesupebeagle
    @charliethesupebeagle 20 годин тому +1

    He has good and bad days :)
    Oh my god

  • @anenglishmaninsandiego
    @anenglishmaninsandiego День тому +1

    One of the most emotional and resonant - and increasingly relevant - storylines of the whole series.
    Great edit work by the channel mod, by the way, it's appreciated, thank you.

  • @pac401
    @pac401 9 годин тому +1

    Perry should have done more serious roles. He had some good acting chops.

  • @woohooboy
    @woohooboy 2 дні тому +44

    Again, there should be term limits. We have seen in recent years, people occupying positions of authority and power who were well past the time of retirement. Having a lifetime hold over a role is something I strongly disagree with.
    I do sympathize with Joe perspective, but ultimately, I agree with Toby's standpoint.

    • @_Hoagie
      @_Hoagie 2 дні тому +2

      I'm more of a fan of age limits instead of term limits. There's nothing inherently wrong with someone staying in politics for a long time, and the issue of people amassing wealth or power over their time there can be dealt with by other laws and regulations. There definitely is something wrong with letting someone remain in politics after their physical, or particularly mental, faculties have started to fail or wear out from old age. Just like how we make aging folks retire from the workplace in their 60s, so to should politicians be forced out at the same age. The average age of the US Congress is currently 58, so just age limits alone would help clean the legislature up and allow more opportunities for fresh faces to get in.

    • @woohooboy
      @woohooboy 2 дні тому +1

      @@_Hoagie - I'm personally for both (whichever is more relevant to the position at hand).
      Whilst I'm sure that there are exceptions to this rule, most people over the age of 70 don't have the mental and physical stamina and capabilities to hold down a full-time job - especially one where you hold significant power, authority and influence. Which is what public office is all about.

    • @MichaelWilliams-jw4sz
      @MichaelWilliams-jw4sz 2 дні тому +2

      Then get a constitutional amendment. I never liked Toby. Too self righteous. Do i want him deciding which should sit on the bench? You heard his opinion about it? There ARE term limits. Elections.

    • @ER1CwC
      @ER1CwC День тому

      @@_Hoagie Age limits are an interesting idea. Term limits, on the other hand, are a terrible one. People are against ‘insiders’ nowadays, but these political and government positions are like any other job. People develop salient skills and knowledge as they gain experience. They also can develop trust with one another, that can help them get things done and weather tough times together. Term limits are a way to ensure that amateurs are in charge. A remedy that is worse than the disease it aims to cure.

    • @weebeedesigns
      @weebeedesigns День тому +1

      @@_Hoagie We do not make aging folks retire from the work place - they choose to retire or they are let go often because they cost their employers too much in benefits and salary over a long tenure. The GOP wants to increase the year you can claim social security to 70 instead of 65. Recently I watched Dr Fauci be interviewed by Lawrence O'Donnell and he's the same age as President Biden but he comes across much younger. The presidency ages everyone. Individuals age differently. I think an upper age limit is fine for the year you would begin your administration - 70 is about right as a max. But in my opinion, age is not the big problem but how long they have to be lobbied and have millions of dollars funneled into their campaigns to buy a vote and stay in power. Citizens United (2010) was a huge turning point, not the beginning of all the pay to play but it opened the door to much bigger influence and dollars pumping into the campaigns.

  • @scottb.3905
    @scottb.3905 2 дні тому +36

    Whoever is uploading these should really proofread their titles, not sure who the Chief of Justice is lol

    • @sasjhwa
      @sasjhwa 2 дні тому +2

      People do that intentionally to get a bunch of people to comment about it. Lots of comments drives the algorithm. Cynical but true.

    • @scottb.3905
      @scottb.3905 День тому +2

      @@sasjhwa I'd like to think the official WW channel is above that, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt

    • @tpl608
      @tpl608 День тому

      Is it official or is it just the name they got to first? ​@@scottb.3905

    • @pjabrony8280
      @pjabrony8280 День тому

      I assumed it was the attorney general, or someone who worked with him. The chief of the Justice Department.

    • @badgercdlyons
      @badgercdlyons Годину тому

      @@scottb.3905 They have good days and bad days.

  • @heideleskun1163
    @heideleskun1163 5 годин тому

    I'm today old in realizing this was Matthew Perry. 🙄🤦‍♀

  • @pympton
    @pympton 2 дні тому +21

    Just a patient getting a nebulizer treatment without an RT in sight.

    • @matthewgeschke5378
      @matthewgeschke5378 День тому

      I take a nebulizer at home without a nurse?

    • @pympton
      @pympton День тому +3

      @@matthewgeschke5378 That's amazing. I'm glad you cracked the code. That wasn't my point. I was making a light hearted joke about a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE IN THE HOSPITAL GETTING A MEDICAL PROCEDURE WITHOUT A LICENSED MEDICAL PROVIDER AROUND. If I need to use smaller words let me know.

    • @Isaic02
      @Isaic02 День тому +4

      ​@@pymptonUse smaller words.

    • @pympton
      @pympton День тому +1

      FDJT. How's that?

    • @Isaic02
      @Isaic02 День тому +2

      @@pympton Clear and succinct, thank you. :)

  • @teresabenson3385
    @teresabenson3385 День тому

    Wow, a very timely clip!

  • @mattmarkasky773
    @mattmarkasky773 2 дні тому +3

    RIP Matt 😢

  • @JasondenHollander-qj5hp
    @JasondenHollander-qj5hp День тому +19

    And then RBG wouldn’t resign and handed Trump the nomination out of pure selfishness

    • @tedfroats6296
      @tedfroats6296 День тому

      She couldn’t resign. There was a Republican led Senate.
      She correctly predicted exactly what they would do if she wasn’t there.

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 День тому +2

      And who handed Trump the replacement for Scalia?

    • @dsteamer100
      @dsteamer100 33 хвилини тому

      And now Stephen Breyer???

  • @27EWS
    @27EWS День тому +3

    "I don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence, I don’t think he knows either’"

  • @flymatt1968
    @flymatt1968 7 годин тому

    Wow this is pretty relevant actually @potus

  • @situated4
    @situated4 3 години тому

    Joseph Biden, take note and abdicate.

  • @FTWProcrastination
    @FTWProcrastination 2 дні тому +4

    Timely!

  • @Dontlicktheballoons
    @Dontlicktheballoons День тому +1

    Whish this administration had a Tobey

  • @declanandrews4802
    @declanandrews4802 4 години тому +3

    who’s watching this after the trump v. united states decision?

  • @megtravers327
    @megtravers327 День тому

    How long was Mathhew on this show?

    • @onothankyou
      @onothankyou День тому +1

      Several episodes, he was very good. Almost as good as Joey and Phoebe's stints, those were real classics.

  • @jonnnyren6245
    @jonnnyren6245 День тому

    Hey Chandler. Miss you bud 😢

  • @TheStuport
    @TheStuport День тому

    If you do what is right....emotions should never be considered.

    • @MadAboutBrows
      @MadAboutBrows День тому

      You're talking about apathy, and it's dangerous. Get therapy.

    • @TheStuport
      @TheStuport День тому

      @@MadAboutBrows You First Slick! I'm good. 😉

  • @charliesmith4072
    @charliesmith4072 День тому +1

    Like all conservatives, in important moments he lied. Thomas and Alito were already on the court when this program ran.

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 День тому

      Garbage. He didn't lie because he was conservative, he lied because he loved.

  • @pauljones8057
    @pauljones8057 День тому

    It's weird because everybody talks about the supreme court being independent and yet every president who can appoints his own people, to sway it one way or another. Terms should be fixed and the chief justice should be independent of any party.

    • @demiserofd
      @demiserofd День тому

      No such thing as true independence. Everyone leans one way or the other. And ultimately, all courts are fundamentally conservative, because it's their job to read and protect the law, not change it.

  • @gu9838
    @gu9838 День тому

    sad when people are in denial. but yeah hes a good actor in this scene. funny how most of the actors in friends really were kinda so so in that show. but after they left it branched out more

  • @JohnZimmermanZIMMproductions
    @JohnZimmermanZIMMproductions День тому +1

    Subtle West Wing... subtle....

  • @quietearthMT
    @quietearthMT 2 дні тому +28

    Surreal watching this after the Biden situation

    • @stephenfgdl
      @stephenfgdl 2 дні тому +5

      the way it's supposed to be, retire when it's time!

    • @hazeleyees
      @hazeleyees 2 дні тому +5

      that debate was a disaster. But needed. America needed to see The Real Joe Biden vs Teleprompter Joe Biden.

    • @user-tj8ht2hi3x
      @user-tj8ht2hi3x 2 дні тому

      @@hazeleyees.. Jan 6th, convicted rapist, felon, narcissist buffoon, traitor etc etc etc... but okay with you?

    • @meamishere1166
      @meamishere1166 2 дні тому +23

      @@hazeleyees
      I'll keep that in mind given that literally every single word out of Trump's mouth was a complete and deliberate lie and would have been no matter who the Democrat could have been.

    • @reubenherrera9827
      @reubenherrera9827 2 дні тому +5

      ​@@hazeleyeesDisaster for both. One lied the other...

  • @madhack69
    @madhack69 2 дні тому

    😂🤣😂🤣

  • @jrpipik
    @jrpipik 2 дні тому +4

    An exercise in how to write a character all wrong. No way Toby is this aggressive when he knows a man is on his death bed. He would want the Chief Justice to resign, yes, but he wouldn't be this mean about it.

    • @cards0486
      @cards0486 2 дні тому +3

      Toby has laser vision, he’s the harshest of the group. You notice all the young staff judge ‘Democrats-good. Republicans-bad’ And I know this could have been reverse Party Administration and it could be the same. Leo has a much calmer demeanor, and kinder attitude. “Let’s just take five and talk about it.” With age comes wisdom.
      I remember Ronald Reagan said Tip O’Neill was one of his closest friends, ‘after 6 P.M.’

    • @terrygracy8345
      @terrygracy8345 2 дні тому +4

      Toby isn’t being that mean about it. Part is him wants the chief justice to resign with dignity - as we hear later in this episode or another where he talks about his admiration for this man

    • @alexturner8104
      @alexturner8104 2 дні тому

      This video is quite pertinent right now after the reports are rolling in from The White House aids about just how bad Biden ACTUALLY has been this last year

  • @pauldonnelly910
    @pauldonnelly910 День тому

    It's false to assume that Matthew Perry's character lied. Look at their eyes -- the fact is, Toby knew the Chief Justice was unconscious the whole time, cuz Joe told him in his body language. What he says is less important, even though it's the essence -- LOYALTY.
    Toby knows Joe is the Chief Justice's man. So he didn't ask for disloyalty, which is what ratting out the Chief would have been. Toby got what he really asked for -- a candor beyond words.

  • @MarklovesAngels
    @MarklovesAngels День тому

    A timely posting. TERM LIMITS! The original idea for lifetime appointments was so they wouldn't be influenced by outside sources, knowing they had a job for life. We can see how that's working out with the greedy bastards on the Court now. No amount of money is ever enough for some people. I'd even give them a limit as long as 20 years but then they have to leave and live under the same laws they helped reinforce as the rest of us.

  • @SWOBIZ
    @SWOBIZ День тому +2

    Sounds like they could have been talking about Joe Biden or Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her later terms.

  • @xeromoth9771
    @xeromoth9771 День тому +2

    A liberal icon reduced to a Quivering mass of octogenarian confusion. That’s pretty on the nose at this moment in time 😂

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 День тому

      As opposed to a congenitally lying septuagenarian one-man crime-wave?

  • @Htfsik
    @Htfsik День тому +2

    You want to get lied to? Talk to a Republican. That’s the moral of the story.

  • @dondraper3871
    @dondraper3871 День тому

    Would have been nice to send this video to Associate Justice Ginsburg

  • @EvanMurphyCapstone
    @EvanMurphyCapstone День тому +1

    I love Joe Biden.....when he was FULLY Joe Biden........this scene hits home after last nights debate .....and it hurts.....I wish so much .....he was still HIM.....my gramps had a saying ( I am sure you all know) "wish in one hand spit in the other...see which one gets fuller , faster"

    • @davidweihe6052
      @davidweihe6052 День тому

      When was he fully Joe Biden, when he cribbed a speech from Neil Kinnock, the head of British Labour Party?

  • @Mark-ke1rj
    @Mark-ke1rj День тому +3

    I gotta agree with Chandler here; Toby is way out of line.

  • @tomb7942
    @tomb7942 День тому +1

    Toby was so wrong in every possible way in everything he said its laughable.