Week in RevieW: January 16-22, 2023

Episode Format:

1. What is the Debt Ceiling and Why is Everyone Talking About it? (1:37)

2. Supreme Court Investigation Unable to Identify Source of Dobbs Leak (12:22)

3. Additional Classified Documents Found in President Biden's Home (20:23); Can a Vice President Declassify Classified Documents? (22:20)

4. Texas Executes Death Row Inmate, Robert Fratta, via Lethal Injection (27:40)

Sources below

What is the Debt Ceiling and Why is Everyone Talking About it?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/what-the-debt-ceiling-is-and-how-a-standoff-may-affect-consumers.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CaKUliZt78

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/21/1150078028/debt-ceiling-explainer

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/10/06/the-debt-ceiling-an-explainer/

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Debt-Limit-Letter-to-Congress-20230119-McCarthy.pdf

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-markets-financial-institutions-and-fiscal-service/debt-limit

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3821825-democrats-may-have-to-bend-on-negotiations-with-gop-on-debt-ceiling/

Supreme Court Investigation Unable to Identify Source of Dobbs Leak

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/19/1150051376/supreme-court-dobbs-leak-marshal

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/politics/read-scotus-report-dobbs/index.html

https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/press/pressreleases/pr_01-20-23

https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/01/justices-were-not-asked-to-swear-under-penalty-of-perjury-that-they-didnt-leak-dobbs/

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001

Additional Classified Documents Found in President Biden's Home; Can a Vice President Declassify Classified Documents?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/21/politics/white-house-documents/index.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/21/search-of-bidens-home-by-doj-finds-6-more-classified-documents.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/classified-materials-handled-analysis/story?id=96416984

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/2.2

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-classified-national-security-information

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-documents/

Texas Executes Death Row Inmate, Robert Fratta, via Lethal Injection

https://www.newsweek.com/robert-fratta-final-words-before-texas-execution-lethal-injection-1772848

https://abc13.com/lethal-injection-texas-death-penalty-robert-fratta-execution-farah-murder-case/12685590/