do the koch brothers have to play clarence thomas in gold bars?akes to get the justice department's reaction, if so, i'm sure we can find some gold bars or some platinum dockets that thomas has as well. but whatever it's gonna take, at some point, the doj and congress need to investigate this man and bring him to heal, because it's never gonna stop, all right? that's the thing that i think this propublica reporting has shown. it's not like thomas is slowing down on the graft. he's gonna keep going until somebody, regulatorily, stops him. >> and it's an excellent point. jesse eisinger, has there been any contact from the doj, members of congress, and the of the committees contacted propublica about your report? >> well, there have been no public and nonsense of any doj investigation. all we've really seen is that democrats responding in congress and it's been pretty anemic. and it' s been prett they asked for harlan crow to come testify. they asked for leonard leo to come and testify. both of them have declined. and they are in some kind of process

then supreme court justice clarence thomas is facing new scrutiny after propublica revealed he had secretly participated in at least two donor fundraising events organized by the right wing koch network founded by the koch brothers. >> justice thomas appearance at these events was not previously disclosed. amy: and senator robert menendez has been indicted along with his wife for allegedly accepting large bribes to benefit the egyptian government. >> special agents with the fbi executed search warrants on the residence and safety deposit box of robert menendez and amy menendez. they discovered approximately $500,000 cash stuffed in envelopes and closets. some of the cash was stuffed in the senator jacket pockets. amy: we will go to cairo and new jersey for the latest. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. new jersey governor phil murphy and a growing number of state democrats are calling on senator bob menendez to resign after he and his wife were indicted friday on bribery charges. congressmember andy kim annou

it really has been long on the wish list of charles koch, and justice clarence thomas has joined in then, d.c., base after that, clarence thomas announced to the public that he was basically no longer going to support the chevron precedent that has held renowned for nearly 40 years. but what we know from the propublica story is that he was indicating that to his billionaire benefactor's at the bohemian grove club in 2016. and more than that, we know that this relationship between koch and thomas and crow, but the koch network and thomas is significant, because he has been to at least two of these donor events of charles koch. we also know that leonard leo has been in the mix of it, holding meetings, hoping to arrange them and provide cover for thomas by suggesting that at least one of these events was a so-called federal society that even though the court draw was thomas sitting around a table at the club with koch's biggest donors. >> for people who say that this is some sort of a left-wing attack on clarence thomas, and that these justices have the ability to be entirely fair and neut

and how does all of that income to clarence thomas effect his votes on the supreme court.te, would go on to simply list that his wife had received money from her consulting business, without detailing how much or from home, or whether any of the people paying her had interests before the supreme court. joining us now is democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island. he's a member of the senate judiciary committee. he is chair of the subcommittee on federal courts. he's also host of the podcast, making of a case. senator whitehouse, so there is virginia thomas saying she knows exactly why people are nice to her, why they want to get close to her, why they want to supply her with income, presumably. and here is politico reporting more on that essentially secret income that she has. >> yeah, the first thing to consider here is that she is married to a supreme court justice, and they have obligations to make disclosures so that the people can evaluate whether there are conflicts of interests that are emerging. and instead of doing that fairly, in a way to involve the p

take the supreme court justice, yes, clarence thomas. you remember him?been the subject of a cascade of scandals recently, like when he failed to recuse himself in the 2020 election es, even though his wife ginni have been accused of pushing the 2020 coup attempt. and there was a propublica reporting this week that said that thomas failed to disclose multiple trips on billionaire benefactor -- trips on his yacht, flights on his jet and weeks at his resort. -- where he lives rent free, or where crow pit portion for thomas's nephew's school. that reporting even forced him to amend his financial disclosure for last month. today, and yet again, the justice funds himself the subject of another report of corruption for propublica this time, this time concerning the powerhouse political organization, called the coke k. propublica reports that thomas participated in nwork donor events, putting him in the extraordinary position o having served as a punishing droughfoa network that broadcasts before the supreme court, including one of the most closely watched the u

clarence thomas has replaced the welfare queen.ing, so in terms of ethics, it's absolutely easy to be ethical. it's easy because all you have to do is be transparent, and be above board. it's hard to be unethical because you have to engage in deceit, you have to lie, you have to cover up. you break the rules and break the law. the ethical code holds people accountable and is especially important with judges. the supreme court justices are paid by, their salaries are paid by us, taxpayers. it is especially important that we hold them accountable because they are taking our money. that's when the salaries are paid. of course it is important and what this supreme court -- i mean, it's stunning for me to hear a smart person like justice elena kagan say, maybe we should have some rules on ethic. it goes without saying that that should be the case. and for them to now think about maybe we should, in a way it's insulting to those of us who care about the courts, so, yes, justices need to be ethical, need to be transparent, and there needs

justice clarence thomas traveled the world in billionaire -- crow billionaire private jet. buying the home of justice's home and allowing live there rent free. he even paid for the education of relative just to thomas. none of this with included in justice thomas's financial disclosures. justice samuel alito took an all expense paid luxury fishing trip to alaska. he traveled there on the private jet of billionaire hedge fund manager, pulsing. or he stayed at a fishing lodge of conservative donna raab and berkeley. like justice thomas, justice alito did not disclose any of these receipts in explaining this justice alito said he did not believe he was required to disclose the private jet travel because he was sitting in a seat that would have otherwise been empty. justice so to my used her tax funded court stab to promote additional sales of her books and conjunction with speaking gauge. meant she failed to recuse herself with cases involving her bush publisher. if any of the senators are sitting in this room today, were advised in similar activities, they're in violation of

for a first pick, let's give a warm -- none other than supreme court justice clarence thomas.n court ethics. just a time of this big released his annual financial report disclosing three 2022 trips paid for by his friends, gop maiden, harlan crow. those trips, by the way, include use of crows private jet. in the report, he also admitted from for previous years, that he says, quote, inadvertently emitted information, including a 2014 real estate deal and which crop paid for three georgia properties that belonged to tomatoes family. we should note, he may not have ever known about any of this, had it not been for propublica reporting that highlighted multiple lavish gifts and trips thomas received from crew over the years. next up, we head to texas where disgraced republican attorney general ken paxton is set to face an impeachment trial this tuesday, following multiple accounts of corruption and bribery. the ap has obtained new records, detailing how paxton allegedly raped the benefits of being one of the states most powerful figures. these perks include unexplained caribbean a

it's got to do with, wait for, clarence thomas. now, what i am about to show you, it may not seem central to understanding our current political moment, but unfortunately, it actually. is take a look at this, this is the photo of the opening ceremony for a festival called bohemian grove and california, one country, a few years back. they are burning an effigy that is meant to represent, quote, worldly cares and concerns, and quote. the annual two-week-long festival was a place where people like erik prince and henry kissinger, who let loose, as propublica put it today. 500 bottle of wine float freely, and members could consume clam shower and chilly, and. it's also all dudes, men only. one republican described as an adult fraternity house. propublica reports today the supreme court justice clarence thomas is a regular. you remember harlan crow? just clarence thomas's body who reportedly paid for him to go on luxury vacations, but him his mom a house while letting him live in it while paying for the private school tuition for his so

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can you tell me why clarence thomas is not going to get impeached?single time i hear this guy, every single time we hear about more corruption, i'm singing, i'm backstreet boys, tell me why. why can't this guy just be impeached? why aren't we doing anything about this? >> well, he can't be impeached because there would thought be a supermajority in the senate to do so. but you are exactly right and your intuition is correct. any other justice at any other quote/unquote normal time in history who is associated with this level of questionable activity, this level of skepticism for his impartiality, there would be clarion calls for his resignation, and if no resignation was forthcoming, there would be called for his impeachment. this is not something thurgood marshall could have gotten away with. this is far more than fortis resigned for, yet here we are and there seems to be no check on that which the thomases can be associated with and continue to have justice thomas serve on the supreme court. >> you know, thomas once wrote in 1991 during his confirm

for a great low rate, go with the general. >> clarence thomas got caught. the supreme court justice didn't disclose the gifts he received from a billionaire republican megadonor. today he finally responded in detail, and on the record. this is the justices required annual disclosure form just released now after a three month delay. he had to delay to get the papers and order, in the filing, he reveals that his benefactor paid for three trips just last year, including two speaking engagements at crows old parkland state and dallas, and a weeklong vacation to crow's private resort in new york. that, of course, is the same lakeside 100 acre property were thomas has been vacationing nearly every summer for 20 years. joining crow and a gaggle of his powerful right-wing friends. crow even commission this painting, memorializing one of those visits with thomas second from the right and three conservative lawyers. now, thomas also made the unusual decision to include an additional quite defensive statement along with his disclosure form. the statement that he claim

it ain't just clarence thomas. i do not like any of them.nd taking abortion away -- i guess you have to be a woman to understand that. i am not having no more babies, but i have grandkids. then they sit on the court looking like they are hot dogs. now. they need to go. thank you. host: kim mentioned justice john roberts' wife. i will show an article in the hill. the headline says, ethics concerns raised over business ties of supreme court chief justice's wife. this is in the hill. i will scroll down a little and read a little from the article. it says, a former colleague of chief justice john roberts' wife raised ethics concerns last month about how the supreme court's business intersects with her recruiting work, according to documents obtained by the hill. she previously worked with jane roberts and alleged the chief justice may have violated recusal and financial disclosure rules for judges in a letter to the justice department and house and senate judiciary committee leaders on december 5, the new york times and political reported. here

clarence thomas is now being implicated and they play to play scandal. calls for his were crucial and for his resignation. i'll speak live with some really and then the gop is broken priorities. instead of focusing on a looming government shutdown and erosion of our democracy republicans can't stop complaining about hoodies and shorts. two of the world's most influential men are both pushing the world's oldest hatred. . >> did evening, one of the main reasons americans are so fed up with washington d.c. so distrustful of our government and angry about the state of our public life is because so many of our politicians on both sides of the political divide seem to be bought and paid for. like big corporations went by dark money groups. robert menendez was accused of being bought and paid for by the egyptian government. he was indicted by the doj on friday on corruption and bribery charges that he denies. and let's be clear corruption is a huge issue for voters. it's a cancer in our system of government. but what happens when it's not elected politician tha

it ain't just clarence thomas. i do not like any of them.nd taking abortion away -- i guess you have to be a woman to understand that. i am not having no more babies, but i have grandkids. then they sit on the court looking like they are hot dogs. now. they need to go. thank you. host: kim mentioned justice john roberts' wife. i will show an article in the hill. the headline says, ethics concerns raised over business ties of supreme court chief justice's wife. this is in the hill. i will scroll down a little and read a little from the article. it says, a former colleague of chief justice john roberts' wife raised ethics concerns last month about how the supreme court's business intersects with her recruiting work, according to documents obtained by the hill. she previously worked with jane roberts and alleged the chief justice may have violated recusal and financial disclosure rules for judges in a letter to the justice department and house and senate judiciary committee leaders on december 5, the new york times and political reported. here

the house clarence thomas partially owned. new, reportable transaction. this is not complicated stuff. just one more, this is the most amazing one of all to me. personal bank accounts at the congressional federal credit union. i still have my senate congressional union checking account. those amounts were inadvertently admitted in prior is due to a misinterpretation of the rules. file are believed that personal bank accounts were exempt from reporting disclosure. senator, what other kinds of bank accounts does a supreme court justice have? >> i don't know, when this one has won with harlan crow as his fiduciary. >> it is an astonishing thing for a supreme court justices, oh, you know, the details were too tricky for me. >> yeah, the two things that are frustrating about this, one is that there are so many excuses that have been made. and after -- to test with of those are real or not. they won't enter questions, they just have these things. they say, i'm a lawyer. and there is no way to have a factual dispute or fact check on

supreme controversy, new ethical questions about supreme court justice, clarence thomas, after a bombshell report on his ties to the powerful and ultraconservative koch brothers network are big. good morning, katie phang is off today, i'm jonathan capehart. this is a two hour edition of the saturday show. we two big moves that the united auto workers strike against the big three car giants. now entering its second week. president biden said yesterday he will head to michigan on tuesday to join the picket line and stand in solidarity with the men and women of the uaw. it will occur one day before a planned visit to the state by donald trump. biden's announcement came after uaw president, john fain, made an announcement of his own. the union walkout has expanded to include 38 parts and distribution centers operated by general motors and stellantis. famed says ford is being spared because that automaker has met some of the unions demands during negotiations over the past week. nbc news correspondent, jesse, kershaw is live from pontiac, michigan. jesse? >> hey, jonathan. good morning. what we

. >>> supreme court justice clarence thomas disclosing trips paid for by his billionaire friend. five private flights last year. what his new filing also reveals. terry moran at the supreme court. >>> horrific images overseas. dozens of men, women, and children killed in a raging inferno. a massive fire tearing through a building. >>> 24 hours after that alarming scene involving senator mitch mcconnell, again freezing in front of the cameras, what the capitol physician is saying tonight. >>> here at home, the deadly helicopter crash outside new york city. the chopper going down in a lake. >>> and america strong. tonight, the nebraska volleyball team smashing the world record for women's sports. the largest crowd ever cheering them on. >>> good evening, and it's great to have you with us on a thursday night, i'm mary bruce, in for david. and we begin with the deadly trail of destruction and the lingering disruptions after hurricane idalia plowed into florida and barrelled across several states. at this hour, the storm is now out to sea, but its e being felt up the atlantic coast,

yes i'm of course referring to clarence thomas, darling of the conservative movement. a man who according to propublica reporting from this, year accepted luxury chips from republican megadonor nfc -- harlan crow, including international travel in his private jet, and his super-yacht. not just on mr. benefited from the billionaires generosity, the justices mother currently lives rent free in a home crow bought from the family. crow also reportedly paid private boarding school tuition for thomas's grand nephew but the latest propublica bombshell piece on thomas which dropped on friday, maybe the most damning, the most shocking, the most outrageous of them all. according to the new report, while on the, bench he devoted a year-long friendship with libertarian billionaire brothers charles and the late david koch. propublica had the details on how the -- for the sprawling political organization the koch network. with -- attending at least to koch donor a vent over the years. he was brought in to speak with the hopes that's us access to a sitting justices would encourage do

he says that her husband jeffrey clarence thomas rolls on. you are from politico's i.t.nited in 2010. the ruling as you know changed american politics overnight. unleashing unlimited dark money into our political system. thomas, a deciding vote in the 5 to 4 rule. according to politico before the rule, ginni thomas hit the ground running preparing for the new reality of big money politics. in those months before the landmark decision, thomas and her allies graded organization to capture political momentum, and to reshape the federal. courts political describes this conservative movement as a quote, billion dollar force that has helped remake the judiciary and overturned long-standing legal precedents on abortion, affirmative, action and any other. issues we find legal scholars to devise theories to -- help elect state attorney generals willing to apply those theories. much lavish campaigns for conservative judicial nominees setting those theories in the rulings from the. bench we should note that thomas did not respond to politicos questions about the story. joining me n

i'm starting to feel that way about clarence thomas.re's never anything that cuts against the revelations. again, hat's off, you guys have done an unbelievable body of reporting, but there's never a denial of the substance, just an effort to recharacterize it. he never denies taking a private jet, he just said i didn't do the dialing. i didn't run the credit cards. how much more is there? >> certainly, he has a notion of who his friends are and what hospitality is, and what it means to try to sell your book at a fund raiser, right? i think it is an astounding thing for a person whose job is to read statutes and interpret them as they were intended to be understood, who then, in applying them to himself, is like oh, no, those words don't mean what they say, right? they mean something else. so i think part of why this is so destabilizing is this is the same clarence thomas. if you have a death row petitioner, and he's very happy to send them, you know, to their death for making tiny, trivial errors. then he simply says, you amended the di

>> justice clarence thomas should resign.e united states supreme court. it is not like he accepted one expensive watch. [silence] >> oh goodness, it looks like the skype connection has gone down for us. we're certainly going to try to get that back. they are more questions we would like to ask the congressman lieu, but we will see if we're able to do that. in the meantime, we have a shocking new poll out today and what it tells us about the 2024 race, plus, here is a reality check. some of the more baffling statements by donald trump in a newly released deposition. baker's coming right back, he will break it down for us. wn for us. but with prilosec otc just one pill a day blocks heartburn for a full 24 hours. for one and done heartburn relief, prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. as someone living with type 2 diabetes, i want to keep it real and talk about some risks. with type 2 diabetes you have up to 4 times greater risk of stroke, heart attack, or death. even at your a1c goal, you're still at risk ...w

and clarence thomas was at a donor event trying to help the koch network raise money.is a clear conflict of interest and he must recuse, because of it. o>> congressman dan goldman, thank you for being with us tonight. coming up, donald trump tries to trick americans into thinking he's pro union with a visit to michigan during the auto workers strike. but don't be fools, i'll explain why in this weeks gotcha. and we're watching capitol hill, as the senate takes up a last-minute spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. stay with msnbc for the latest. but first, my colleague richard lui with today's top news stories. richard? >> roughly, are. new york city is drawing out of her nearly seven inches of rain led to widespread flooding. southwest, buses have resumed. normal service. officials say a sea lion that briefly swam out of her enclosure in central park was rescued and is now back at the. suit the french government assures parisians it will solve a bit by problem in time for the summer olympics, less than a year from. now the bloodsucking and six were found on su

tonight, explosive new reporting on how clarence thomas's wife, ginni, has made the ruling work for her, when all in starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening from washington. i am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. tomorrow, the house is back in session following a lengthy summer recess. and republican speaker kevin mccarthy faces a new round of headaches, including a looming government shutdown and a renewed push for some of the most extreme numbers of its conference to impeach president joe biden for something -- they haven't quite figured that part out yet. if you want to understand just how ridiculous and cynical this impeachment attempt is, let me introduce you to republican congressman ken buck of colorado. if you've been following american politics for a long time, you might remember that name. buck first became notorious during a race for senate back in 2010, when he made these comments about his primary opponent, republican lieutenant governor jane norton. >> i don't know if anybody has any questions, i'm gonna get my speech for the fourth time today -- [laughter] good, yes? >> why

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a group that then came to be partially run by a former supreme court to clarence thomas.like you pointed out just weeks before the citizens united ruling. and, fact they sign the paperwork incorporating and putting lettered leo as a director on this in new years eve. it's hard to believe according to experts that clarence thomas was discussing about that ruling. of course, to be, fair advise widely expected the court might do this. even, so the timing of it is really auspicious. you can look at the timeline. what we have found is that when they created this, group it became public months after they did so, katie. they were forced to step away. this was a key revelation here. they had a plan b. that plan b was to use a separate dark money group. this was a group that went on to become a prolific filer of briefs before her husband. that group was used to secretly pay her. collaborating to arrange payments. we were told by representatives that they would not tell us. this was over the span of several weeks. those groups are still in existence. she started her consulting busi

. >>> also this even, the new disclosure by justice clarence thomas about private trips paid for by a gop mega-donor the security risks he says led him to use the billionaire's jet. >>> former president donald trump pleading not guilty to election interference charges in georgia and waving his arraignment next week. and what the judge has decided. will there be cameras in the court for the trial? >>> the proud boys leader sentenced today. one receiving the second-longest punishment in the january 6th attack >>> the deadly building fire that killed at least 74, including 12 children. what we're learning. >>> the urgent manhunt in pennsylvania. an extremely dangerous convicted murderer escaping from prison and on the loose >>> and what a spike in attendance. more than 90,000 fans helping the nebraska huskers volleyball team claim a new world record >> good evening, everyone, and welcome. once powerful idalia has made its exit off the north carolina coast, heading into open waters, as residents and officials across four states assess the damage it leaves in its wake splintered and twiste

a lot of the elements in clarence thomas end billionaire scandal. the vice president harris, making use over this weekend. we have this story by the end of the hour when we will actually be joint by the artist, comment, who is with harris on saturday. >>> out top stories the loss for a key trump legal defense strategy in georgia, where donald trump's former chief of staff led an effort to remove his case out of the georgia courts, and the lost. a federal judge, denying the bid to take that trial to federal court. he thought his odds were better. the loss for mr. mike meadows, now defendant, means he will face trial in georgia. it's also bad news for other trump codefendants who hoped to take this same tact, and he hopes to get into this with you right now that we bring in michael steele. here's the bottom line. a judge has rejected mike meadows claiming that he was acting as a proper federal official for activities that are legit in this regard i mean, because meadows is accused of crimes about overturning the election results in georgia, and the ju

joy-ann reid called him uncle clarence on national television. she saw the job. nothing happens when you slander a black conservative or republican. you can call whatever you want on television and, radio, and no one cares. and i think for me, it wasn't about like i'm republican because i'm not. it's a thing that i notice that was an unfair our society. if we're talking about caring about black americans and saying how we should treat people like we want to be treated or even just hyper reacting to some sort of racism that might happen, it gets a black person. but have a segment of black people that you can outwardly slander on television in public. and nothing happens to you. and it doesn't even matter if you're black or not. that is something that is is not talked about enough. adam coleman how would describe your politics? it's hard to peg me down. i would say i'm politically independent. i, in my writings, democrats and republicans, because no one's perfect. i would say socially more conservative about family, things of that nature. i'm pro-life, wholly pro-l

on thursday, justice clarence thomas filed his 202financial disclosure report. this comes after multiple pro hubblea, which uncoveredom years of undisclosed gifts received by thomas the court changed its disclosure rules in march prior to these pieces many of those gifts came from republican donor harlan crow crow's name appeared multiple times in the latest report, reportedly paying for thomas' travel on three occasions, including to a conservative conference last may. thomas, also noted that he flew on a private jet on that trip due security concerns after the leak of the dobbs decision another pro-publica record revealed that crow had bought property in georgia, originally owned by thomas and his family addressing this in the report, thomas said he did not think he was required to disclose the sale as he lost money on the transaction. a lawyer for thomas said in a statement he is confident that the justice did not willingly make any ethics transgressions justice samuel alito also filed his disclosure report along with thomas on thursday alito similarly came u

this is clarence. clarence is in north carolina, in charlotte on our oppose line. caller: good morning, pedro. i am an ex drug addict, and i just want to tell most people who don't know that marijuana is a gateway drug. i started out with marijuana. after you smoke it for a number of years, you don't get the same feeling for it. so you automatically go and try to find something else to get you higher. it is a gateway drug to get into other drugs and make people go bad experience recently a friend of mine from california, they gave me a cookie that had this drug in it. i ate the cookie and i hallucinated all night long. we don't know what is in the drugs now. it will mess up a lot of our young people's minds. it will make more young people drug addicts then we have ever seen. think we have a problem with these pills and everything. they get legal and i promise you are going to have america for loved drug addicts. it is a gateway drug to other drugs. when you start young people are taking it is all right to smoke this. they're going to find out, i need something else

justice clarence thomas officially acknowledged that harlan crowe, a gop mega donor, funded private tripsal disclosure form released on thursday. justice thomas has faced a lot of criticism for accepting gifts from crowe first revealed earlier this year. joining us now is cnn senior supreme court analyst, good morning, joan. >> good morning, audie. >> what do these forms disclose that we didn't know about before? >> you're right to talk about the context at the top, more media and congressional scrutiny on the justices these days, at a time they're known for their lack of transparency and this is the first time that justice thomas in years has even referenced some of these private jet trips taken at the expense of harlan crowe. what this form had his 2022 activities that included two -- a total of three trips that was financed on his private jet going to a dallas event and then also a very lavish excursion to harlan crow's estate, a beautiful vacation estate in upstate new york, and then going back to 2014 clarence thomas acknowledged that he should have put on prior forms the fact that h

the narrative has been relentless against clarence thomas. there is only one fact that matters if you cut through the noise. harlan crow and these friends had no business before the supreme court. full stop. >> john: is that the line that you could accept gifts from people but if they have business before the court that puts it into a whole different -- >> you have all kinds of things you have to report based on where they are coming from. that had been what justice thomas said there were things that may not have been reported but didn't think they had to be. again that's one of the things that came out of burke's statement yesterday. he never did accept a gift with anybody that had business before the court. crowe is conservative and have certain interests even if he is not the name on the case before the court. remember, there are justices on the other side of the ideological been much here who also had questionable issues have had to alter their financial disclosures, too. so pro publy ca is interested in specific justices but maybe not al

[bell dings] for a great low rate, go with the general. >>> today the supreme court justice clarencemas officially acknowledged that in the past year he took three trips by a private jet owned and paid for by this man, billionaire donor harlan crow. according to the financial disclosure report crow also funded a trip for thomas to upstate new york presumably to the same private lakeside resort captured in this now famous painting. looks like a nice place. this is the first time in years that justice thomas has reported receiving any kind of hospitality from his friend crow. this follows changed to disclosure rules this spring and pressure from a series of bob shell reports that detailed lavish trips that thomas and other justices like samuel alito failed to disclose in the past. justice thomas defended, quote, there's been no willful ethics transgression and other prior reporting errors were strictly inadvertent, end quote. this comes as the supreme court justices face increased scrutiny of their financial dealings and lack of any enforcement codes. the senate judiciary committee rec

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morgan wealth management. >> today the supreme court justice clarence thomas officially acknowledged past year he took three trips on a private jet owned and paid for by this man, billionaire republican donor harlan crow. according to justice thomas's annual financial disclosure report, crow also funded a trip for thomas to upstate new york, presumably to the same private lakeside resort in the adirondacks that was captured in this now famous painting. looks like a nice place. this is the first time in years that justice thomas has reported receiving any kind of hospitality from his friend crow. this follows changes to disclosure rules and public pressure after a series of bombshell investigative reports from propublica the detailed a lavish trips to thomas and other justices like samuel alito failed to disclose in the past. justice thomas's lawyer defended premier previous emissions, saying, quote there has been no willful ethics transgression, and any prior reporting errors were strictly inadvertent. end quote. this comes as they face supreme court justices faith -- in face of a mi

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in an unrelated matter, we received updated financial disclosures from justice clarence thomas who is successor on the supreme court. given his concurring opinions indecisions like dobbs and students for fair missions, which ended affirmative action on the basis of race, thomas's legacy may just mean one of dismantling the very liberal policies that worked to get people like justice thomas to the bench. >> and i think that's one of the tragedies. indeed, he largely is doing his job. the only reason why he even was appointed to the supreme court was because he was a blackface who would support the attack on black people. and unfortunately he has done that over the course of his supreme court career. he has been well rewarded for it over the course of his career. and unfortunately people who look like him have suffered as a result of his supreme court career. >> when this country has made progressive strides in the past, we discuss this, there's always a backlash, either crackdown on voting rights in georgia after the state flipped to democratic control in 2020. like the book bans, the

those gifts to conservative justice clarence thomas from republican mega donor harlan crow are amongosures in a newly released financial statement from the justice. his lawyers say any earlier omissions were strictly inadvertent. but this latest news has court critics enraged. >> how it is possible that we do not have a code of ethics that is binding upon the highest court in the land? >> i come from regular stock. >> reporter: this film on thomas was funded by the billionaire real estate man crow, who says he met the justice in 1996. they became friends. both love motown music and never discuss cases. yet earlier reports from propublica name crow and three other big businessmen as ultra wealthy benefactors of the justice, giving him at least 38 destination vacations, including a previously unreported voyage on a yacht around the bahamas, 26 private jet flights, plus an additional eight by helicopter, a dozen vip passes to professional and college sporting events, two stays at luxury resorts in florida and jamaica, and one standing invitation to an uber exclusive golf club. >> justic

supreme court justice, clarence thomas, releases his financial disclosures.we are learning about the truth that was paid for by his billionaire friend, highland grove. and later, the reporting says some progressives are raising the alarm, and want president biden to sharpen his 2024 pitch. but president biden has been busy this week, taking off a lot of boxes of things democrats want him to do. we are going to go through what he has been up to, and how it stacks up against republicans plants. the 11th hour getting underway on a thursday. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i go to spin classes with my coworkers. good for you, shingles doesn't care. because no matter how healthy you feel, your risk of shingles sharply increases after age 50. but shingrix protects. proven over 90% effective, shingrix is a vaccine used to prevent shingles in adults 50 years and older. shingrix does not protect everyone and is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients or to a previous dose. an increased risk of guillain-barré syndrome was observed after getting shingrix. fainting can a

also, what is going on with justice clarence thomas? he just disclosed more trips with the republican megadonor, including one just days after the dobbs decision was leaked. and later, lawmakers return to the hill, they'll hit the ground running, as a possible government shutdown calls for multiple investigations move. this is american voices. hello everyone, i'm julian castro, in for alicia menendez. we begin this hour with georgia's governor shutting down a challenge to donald trump's racketeering case, paving the way for a historic trial in atlanta. governor brian kemp refused to call a special session to remove fulton county district attorney fani willis, slamming the request from republicans as, quote, political theater. >> up to this point, i have not seen any evidence that d.a. willis's actions, or lack thereof, weren't absent by the prosecuting attorney oversight commission. in georgia, we will not be engaging in political theater that only inflames the motions of the moment. we will do what is right, we will uphold our oaths as