Whoopi Goldberg is fed up with the Supreme Court, but a recent secret recording really pushed her over the edge. This morning’s episode of The View began with the co-hosts discussing the unverified recordings from liberal documentarian Lauren Windsor, who captured damning a conversation with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
In the leaked audio, Windsor pretends to be a religious conservative while talking to the justice, who appears to say that the left or right will eventually win, and the country can’t compromise.
“One side or the other is going to win,” he says in the recording. “There can be a way of working, a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised.”
After Goldberg asked her co-hosts if Alito’s remarks compromise his ability to serve on the court, Joy Behar said she had a bit of a “problem” with the recordings, which she said could be “altered.”
Still, she noted, “The Supreme Court at the moment is so biased and so pro-theocracy, as you saw in what we just watched, that somebody has to expose them.”
She added, “They have the whole GOP on their side, and we’re losing the Supreme Court’s objectivity, and someone needs to expose them. They have no consequences whatsoever, these people. They’re there for the rest of their lives—”
Goldberg then cut in to ask, “Why can’t we sue them in a class action suit?”
Behar replied, “I’m not sure you can even do that. They’re the highest court,” but Goldberg pushed on anyway, telling her, “Yeah, but I don’t know why— listen, I don’t know why you can’t pull a class action suit that says, listen, you are no longer doing the job you’re supposed to be doing. I don’t understand why we can’t do that.”
Behar then wrapped her remarks in a way only she could, peppering in some new slang as she asked, “The question is, does [Justice John] Roberts have the ‘bazoos’ — that’s a word I learned somewhere, I don’t know, but we all know what it is — the ‘bazoos’ to tell these people to recuse themselves, especially in the cases of Trump?”
The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
