supreme court justice clarence thomas has. he latest ethics scandal centering around justice thomas. that is next. l centering around justice thomas. that is next “look at all those snacks, you must be a king!” “i did just pay 60% less for my ticket with the gametime app.” “it's the best place to get last-minute deals on tickets.” “i guess i'm just a better fan than you.“ "(crowd cheering) i've got to get the gametime app.” “download the gametime app to get great deals on last-minute tickets.” >>> having a billionaire benefactor comes with multiple perks. as it turns out justice clarence thomas is also quite generous himself. his newest law clerk, crystal clanton is not just his employ, she's practically his family. "the new york times" reports justice thomas and his wife ginni took her in under their own roof when she was fired from the conservative group turning point usa after reportedly sending racist text messages. the couple began calling clanton their nearly adopted daughter. clanton was so close to the thomas', she's pr

this is new territory, and i think it really shows just how enmeshed clarence thomas and ginni thomasame to the thomases as an assistant to ginni thomas after she was pushed out of turning point usa for being too racist, and then grew into not only a confidant to jenny but also a friend and nearly adopted daughter to clarence, now he's elevating her to a clerkship which positions her well for a first of $500,000 bonus if she's entering private practice and 10 years down the line a judgeship under a future republican president. so the stakes are high and because of that, justices usually go out of their way to hire based on merit, to ensure they are not just picking their friends and family. obviously clarence thomas does things different way, clinton may be the most extreme version of that but she's not the only one. >> in the immediate, it doesn't seem like a good idea to have a law clerk at the supreme court who has texted i hate black people just for what it does to the court itself which is suffering from a major pr cry six -- pr crisis at best but people who write text messages s

but as it turns out, justice clarence thomas is also quite generous himself. n, is not just his employee. she is practically his family. the new york families reports that justice thomas and his wife jenny took ms. clinton in under their own roof when she was fired from the turning point usa after reportedly sending racist text messages. the couple began calling her there nearly adopted daughter. she is so close to the thomases that she is prominently featured in some of their recent newsletters, right alongside the thomases dogs. in addition to providing her housing, clanton worked for ginni thomas herself and mrs. thomases consulting firm. they also helped ms. clanton land a clerkship in his own office. there is nothing illegal about keeping things close, but this is the supreme court, an institution that is encouraged by the nonbinding federal code of conduct to avoid unnecessary appointments, nepotism, and favoritism. it is an institution that has a 60% disapproval rating right now. it is also an institution that is currently facing a giant credibility prob

clarence thomas does indeed have a financial interest in the proceeding, because clarence thomas's wife and, clarence thomas's wife has an interest in a party to the proceeding for donald trump is a party to the proceeding. , and virginia thomas had an interest in donald trump. in an interest in donald, trump becoming president again. and he had a desperate interest, urging donald, trump and white house chief of staff, mark meadows, through text messages to commit the crime they committed to try to overturn the presidential election. the outrage that is already upon, us before the supreme court here is one word argument in this case. it is the continuing, ethical outrage that clarence thomas brings to the supreme court every day. and is now, right before the eyes of the chief justice and the rest of the members ready to violate federal law that bars him from hearing this case. joining us, now democratic senator of rod island, he's the senate judiciary committee and the subcommittee on federal courts. senator, as you are invited to top out from the outrage over the recusal issue -- i can

again become president and appoint judge cannon to the united states supreme court after making clarence thomas an offer he can't refuse, to retire for the court for plush retirement in the lap of luxury financed by billionaires. judge cannon issued an order at 6:27 p.m. about possible jury instructions and a cased charging donald trump with violations of the espionage act for his illegal possession of classified documents and other government documents owned by the united states government. in that order, george cannon reveals that she is considering a possible jury instruction that would require the jury to find donald trump not guilty because that jury instruction would say, quote, a president has sole authority under the presidential records act, to categorize records as personal or presidential during his or her presidency. an outgoing president's decision to exclude what he/she considers to be personal records from presidential records transmitted to the national archives and records administration constitutes a presidents categorization of those records is personal under

clarence thomas gets a beautiful brand-new custom-built to his specifications, motorhome. the most expensive one in the world. complete with goldplated trump style faucets. as much private travel as clarence thomas could possibly want on donald trump's private planes and other corporate private planes and massive amounts of money for republican beginners who will put clarence thomas on their boards. that offer, almost as specific as that, was floating right there in the air. in the room between donald trump and judge cannon. right there were anyone with an understanding of donald trump could see it. very much including judge cannon. so, when she wrote the two-page order a couple hours after the hearing denying his preposterous motion for dismissal, claiming that the law is too vague, she wrote her order in the most favorable possible terms to donald trump. she denied the motion without prejudice, meaning donald trump is allowed and according to judge cannon, encourage, to bring up the same issue later in the process. the judge said one of the points of the process were the

clarence thomas is not just a conservative, he's an activist. there should be no place for that in the court and he should have restrained himself and excused himself. >> same to you, what is your reaction to the farmer justices comments as our democracy hangs in the balance? >> our democracy is just as strong as our belief in our democracy. when regular voters i talked to all the time see what the court does, especially clarence thomas , and what his wife has been accused of and to mr. walsh's point of there be an activist judge folks don't like that. this used to be a solemn place. i can walk down to the supreme court. this place is beautiful. we should honor and respect that place and they should never have anything to do with politics. it should always be about justice and what they are doing is slowly trying to tear down those pillars and it's disgusting what we have seen happen to our courts over the last few years. >> please stick around, we have more coming up including former rudy giuliani associate serving up a hard truth for republica

there's a weird clarence thomas-aness to. it's not just josh holley's wife who also tried to push get rid of roe, but you also have james hoh. the alliance defending freedom, six payments from 2018 to 2022 to his wife, the judge's wife, allison. she's a powerhouse federal appellate lawyer who has argued in front of the court and has deep connections to the legal conservative movement. it's like these are the serena joys, these women who are kind of leading the fight to get rid of the right to choose for the rest of the women in america. >> i mean, ms. hawley is an experienced litigator. she's been at big important law firms. she's, you know, she's good at what she does. i think she made the best case that could be made today before the supreme court. i will say that she doesn't have an easy hand to play even before these justices. joy, part of the drama here is that the supreme court took this, even though the initial case, the federal district court case in texas that brought this, it cited, in talks about mifepristone, two

there's the supreme court justice clarence thomas right in the middle swearing in his protÉgÉ to be audge on the fifth circuit court of appeals. the judge has his hands on the bible held by his wife allison in his home of his billionaire benefactor harlan crowe. the year is 2018. he would go onto play a crucial role in trying to restrict abortion medication across the united states. not only did he agree the fda restrict access to abortion pills, he was the only judge on that court to conclude right wing doctors suffered injury because women had access to abortion medication. that case went before the supreme court yesterday where even those judges seem skeptical that the plaintiffs even had the standing to bring this case before the court, which make judge hou's decision there appear that much more unusual. and now we are learning that the judge's wife is linked to what else, the alliance defending freedom. the guardian newspaper reports from 2018 to 2022 that group made at least six payments. he said the money given to his wife was then donated to charity. wherever that money ended

was it to give clarence thomas what he wants which is absurd hearings on any manner of social issues? >> not exactly. the court has a structural problem. and the structural problem is anybody who wanted to file this case could go down to amarillo, texas, where judge matthew kazmierczak, the only judge you were going to get in amarillo was judge kazmierczak. and they knew after getting him he's do something incredibly dopey like filing a nationwide injunction, making it impossible for anyone in this country to get this drug. we have a drug shopping problem in this conthat i should note the courts are trying to address now. but for the moment the court has the problem of one rogue judge, a rogue fifth circuit that blessed huge chunks of his irrational, indefensible logic. and the court had no choice but to take this case. and so i think as long as we have kind of judges that are way, way, way to the fringes, judges who make samuel alito and clarence thomas look kind of like sentist moderates like they did today, those cases are going to rocket up to the court, and the court is going to

i do not trust clarence thomas. i think c needs to recluse himself from january 6 because of his -- i think he needs to recuse himself from january 6 because of his wife. host: one was the last time you trusted the supreme court? caller: i have not trusted them for a while. even when obama was president, mitch mcconnell would not let him, obama, bring up merrick garland, to bring someone on the court. so the court has become political for a while, not only now. i do not trust the court. i think of our becoming -- i think they are becoming too political. the last three before jackson, i think they have really been too political, and i think the courts now are very, very political. i would give them a 10%. host: that's ann in new york. a favorability ratings are any indication, the supreme court becoming more unfavorable over time, according to public polling. this is pew research with their chart, dating back to 1987. back then, the favorability ratings of the supreme court would bounce from 80% to 65%. you can see t

there is supreme court justice clarence thomas right in the middle, swearing in his protigi to be a judgeircuit court of appeals. judge james has his hand on the bible in the home of justice thomas's billionaire effector harlan crow. the year is 2018. judge james would play a crucial role in trying to restrict access to medication abortion across the united states. not only did judge james agree the fda improperly expanded access to abortion pills in 2016 and 2021, he was the only judge on that court to conclude right-wing doctors, in this case, the alliance for defending freedom suffered injury because women had access to abortion medication. that case went before the supreme court yesterday, we are even those judges seemed skeptical that the plaintiffs even had standing to bring this case before the court, which takes judge james decision appear that much more unusual. now we are learning his wife, an attorney with the federalist society is linked to, what else, the alliance defending freedom. the guardian newspaper reports from 2018 to 2022, that group made at least six payments to ali

also want to point out that he is also involved■] in bed with the thomases impact he represented clarence thomassteel before the january 6th committee and also goes on vacation so this man has quite an interesting roster and but the bigger picture here is the presence is another indication of the way in whichts impeachment inquiry is part of the larger misinformation in 2020 where in addition to pressuring and withholding aid toto ukraine, rudy giuliani and the trump organization as established landed the story in the media and now here we are four years later they are planting it back in the media using congress, using the commite d impeachment supported by donald trump saloon allies on the committee to push that as members on the committee have trafficked withe false evidence planted by a russian operative to and is now in jail for that, all of this is in the service of propping up the criminal enterpriseor which donald trump is at the top and has already been twice impeached. rudy giuliani and others have&7 been exposed as they continue to traffic the disinformation that not only pops up dona

they just wanted to attack clarence thomas? >> because he is black. >> no, because his wife. >> jessica, i agree. we need to do something about this maggot supreme court. 9-0. i heard, this is a rumor that soto meyer justice kagan were listening to toby keith twirling their red hats. this is why we need to get more justices into the supreme court, so we can balance this extreme nine. it is a bummer that it is up to the voters. elections seem so old-fashioned when you can rely on liberal traffic judges, liberal prosecutors nda to circumvent the will of the people and law fare is what democrats do instead of debating and campaigning. imagine you have the world series and instead of the team playing, the owners investigate the star players of each team, trying to get them out before the game is played. you can take this as a victory, but this is part of a bigger strategy. they are doing it already. they get love from the media. the reason these judges are doing this is because it is incentivized. you can go from security in colora

i do not trust clarence thomas. think c needs to recluse himself from january 6 because of his -- i think he needs to recuse himself from january 6 because of his wife. host: one was the last time you trusted the supreme court? caller:ile. even when obama was president, mitch mcconnell would not let obama, bring up merrick garland someone on the court. so the court has become political for a while, not only now. i do not trust the court. i think of our becoming -- i think they are becoming too political. the last three before think they have really been too ow are very, very political. i would t host: that's ann in new york. a favorability ratings are any indication, the supreme court becoming more unfavorable over time, according to public polling. this is pew research with their chart, dating back to 19 back then, the favorability ratings of the supme crt would bounce from 80% to 65%. n see those numbers tightening over time, from 2000 7, 2017, almost 50-50, just unfavorable ratings then favorable ratings that dat

but either way, they are preaching from the gospel that clarence thomas helped to write and i am sure that crystal clanton will be set along the exact same path once she graduates from this boot camp. >> this is clarence thomas' army. ladies and gentlemen. it is always great to talk with you, mark. thanks for making the time. >> thank you. >> that is our show this evening. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening and welcome back lawrence. >> thanks alex. >>> so mike is over there. right over there. in radio city music hall with the three presidents. and, he is trying to make his way here into this studio. he has an hour to get here. apparently, they are in kind of a lockdown at the moment. but he will eventually we believe get here. >> just don't put him up at the top. i thought he was going to be at the top of the show. do you need me to tap dance? it will be a minute. >> we were hoping to get him earlier. but he will get here and tell us what went on in there. >> spill the tea. i want to know. >> well, we are waiting for mike. the name of this episode

whipping up hatred against muslim immigrants, but either way they're preaching from the gospel clarence thomas helped to write. and i'm sure crystal clanton will be set along the exact same path once she graduates from this boot camp. >> this is clarence thomas' arm ay. thanks for making the time tonight. that is our show for this evening. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is coming up next. >>> it's about telling a story. people have -- people are breaking their necks putting food on the table every day or about the kid who may be sick. and am i say tell a story, i'm not talking about making a story. i'm telling how you feel because people trust you all. your neighbors trust you. >> that was part of a discussion between president biden and former presidents obama and clinton who all came together last night in new york city for a major fund-raiser. we'll have much more on that show of democratic unity in just a moment. >>> donald trump, meanwhile, also in new york city but for a very different reason. he spent part of his day ranting on social media about the daughter of the judge in his o

individuals go directly into the judiciary's, either way, they are preaching from the gospel that clarence thomas helped to write, and i'm sure that crystal clanton will be set along the same path when she graduates from this boot camp. >> this is clarence thomas's army. mark joseph stern, it's always great to talk to you. >>> that's our show for this evening, now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell, good evening and welcome back, lawrence. >> mike manley is over there, right over there, and he's got the three presidents, and he is trying to make his way here into the studio. he's got an hour to get here, apparently they are in a lockdown at the moment but he will eventually, we believe, get here. >> don't put him at the top. i was going to say, i can be your guest, if you need. if you need me to tap dance. >> we were hoping to get him earlier but he's going to get over here and tell us what went on in there. >> spilled the tea mike, i want to know. >> the name of this episode is, waiting for mike. >> a new play by lawrence o'donnell. carry on. >> thank you. >>> a presidential cam

and the late remaining justice on the court from that decision, justice clarence thomas, is married to a woman who vociferously argued for and interacted with trump's inner circle, including his chief of staff, mark meadows, to support the idea that the election was stolen, and that trump's effort to, quote/unquote, stop the steal, was an official act, and now trump's lawyers are going to come before the court and make ginni thomas' arguments in front of her husband. what the supreme court is doing is incentivizing trump to become like the strongmen he has long admired and remain president for life. the idea being he is untouchable as long as he is the president. perhaps trump will ask for some tips from hungary's authoritarian leader viktor orban when he privately visits with trump next week at mar-a-lago. we know trump's affinity for the other global dictators like vladimir putin and kim jong-un, and who is going to stop trump from staying in the white house until nature calls him. congress? don't make me laugh. there is no longer any checks and balances. that's gone. trump essential

if donald trump wins the presidency again, he would surely approach clarence thomas with an offer he couldn't refuse. leave the supreme court. so donald trump can replace him with a younger conservative like judge cannon. and judge thomas gets a beautiful brand new custom built to his specifications motor home. the most expensive one in the world surely complete with vulgar gold plated trump style faucets and as much private travel as he could possibly want on donald trump's private planes and massive amounts of money from republican billionaires who will put clarence thomas on the boards. that offer as specific as that was floating right there in the air. that was floating there in the room between donald trump and judge cannon. right there where anyone with an understanding of donald trump could see it. and so, when she wrote a two- page order, a couple of hours after the hearing, denying donald trump's preposterous motion for dismissal, claiming that the law is too vague, she wrote her order in the most favorable possible terms to donald trump. she denied the motion without prejud

that's clarence thomas from all we know in terms of his, well, his interest in vacationing with veryhis vacations. but for him to come out and directly address this court gives you insight into how. >> and a huge evolution for him. which is important to remember. and he is quite a traditionalist when it comes to the supreme court. he is very careful to the frustration of many in the democratic base and how he has talked about the court. the blue ribbon commission, which means i'm going to commission a report that will go on a shelf? >> and to echo what you said, he was kind of sick of it and that is significant on the court. >> and at any old time wn

bush is a world in which you know, i mean, he was replaced by clarence thomas. imagine a clinton appointee. hard to imagine a clinton appointee would look, you know, quite as conservative as clarence thomas. that's i mean, i do think it's worth stressing that if we're going to talk about the sort of the move toward building a multiracial democracy, we talk about the supreme court's role in dismantling. and you know what, to me as chief justice roberts, least offensive single decision on the court, shelby county versus holder, where you know, in 2013, the court takes a massive bite out of the voting rights act in ways that have been just so visibly effective and horrifyingly effective in reallocating political power in states with historical patterns of discrimination on the basis of race and voting. a world again, a world in which the court actually thought congress would be responsive. a world in which the court thought that a week after that decision, congress would introduce a new coverage formula, which the court almost expressly invited it to do. i don't th

eric, do you think clarence thomas? do you think clarence thomas, you'd have faced harsher consequences for accepting gifts from wealthy republican donors. has the integrity of the court been compromised? >> i think the integrity of the court has certainly comes into question based on the conduct that we know he engaged in there needs to be an ethics standard for an ethics conduct rule of conduct for the supreme court that is unique in that know what we know. justice alito also took trips. we know that justice former justice scalia died while he was on one of those trips. and the reality is that i think the court's legitimacy know democrat on trips, i'm just asking nothing where although there have been justices who apparently forced democratic appointed justice, who >> asked people to buy certain numbers of books before they would've read that, right? and so i think that the court itself is its legitimacy is being questioned. i think legitimately, b. on the basis of the decisions that they've made, but also the conduct

john oliver has offered clarence thomas a winnebago and a million dollars a year to -- and this is hisurt watchers, you are expert on the supreme court, will he accept this offer? >> i think this is a harlan crow counter offer opportunity. to be when you believe that his benefactor is going to have to ? what do you counter with? it's a beautiful winnebago and a million dollars. is there anything else to life? >> not if you enjoy spending time in the parking lots of walmart, as justice thomas does. >> jon: he says he does but apparently, he likes to quail hunt in a robe. i want to ask you, there is a strategy that is starting to bubble up, which is, getting americans comfortable with authoritarianism and getting us to not think critically about the differences between a free society and not a free society. and in that regard, they are starting to paint trump as navalny, that the trials that he is facing in america are similar or the same as what putin did to navalny. please explain to me why that is horse shit. >> well, we are not experts in russian criminal procedure, but i think it is

and he put 3 judges up there that actually did it with clarence thomas and illegal . and thomas has been there for this long time and, and, and, you know, finding did try to prevent that. so it's going to always be an issue. but bottom line is, trump said, just today i, b, f is important and our great republican party will always be with you in your quest for the ultimate joy in life, which is obviously having children. so i think when everybody cools down and realize this idea is not abortion, it is not showing the unborn or the innocent children that planned parenthood. it's been known to do for all these many years, or that margaret sanger was a big proponent of etc, etc. we'll come down and say, wait a minute, we remember this is actually pro life. we are using a scientifically proven method of creating children not destroying them. and if the eggs fall on the ground or are frozen or destroyed after not use that isn't murder, no one's going to jump for that. definitely when you watch these politicians makes comments like what you're saying. what does that say to y

inclined to side with the anti-abortion doctors and further restrict access to mifepristone, clarence thomas and samuel alito. what's on the line here, access to the abortion pill by mail, without multiple trips to the doctor. and up until ten weeks of pregnancy. the fda calls this safe and effective. the supreme court expected to make a decision in june. david? >> david: rachel scott at the supreme court tonight. rachel, thank you. >>> tonight here, we have new reporting after the federal raids at the homes of sean "diddy" combs in los angeles and miami. sources tonight now telling abc news this is a sex trafficking investigation involving combs, and this evening, what federal authorities have now seized in those homes. here's victor oquendo. >> reporter: tonight, abc news has confirmed that federal agents seized multiple electronic devices from sean combs' l.a. and miami mansions, and sources tell abc news that the music and entertainment mogul is the target of a federal sex trafficking investigation. combs' plane flying from california to antigua, but it's not clear if combs was on board.

amy coney barrett, clarence thomas and samuel alito are not there. clarence thomas has not been there, has not attended the state of the union since 2006. casey, remind our viewers who see the sea of white of congressional women. yes. democrats in the house and senate, why? they are all wearing white. >> it's about reproductive rights. and that, of course, has become a the central issue. frankly, the democrats want to promote for all of the discussions that we're having around this table about the president's challenges on immigration and the economy, democrats are going to plan to answer those challenges with abortion. i mean, that is going to be something that we are going to be hearing over and over and over again throughout this election. and frankly, you know, it's exploded into ivf, right? this big part of why what's going on with in vitro fertilization in alabama is so important to this election is because it really casts the dobbs decision as one that has an incredible range of unintended consequences. in many cases, you're seeing republicans

he had a fair amount of influence and clerked for clarence thomas before joining the powerful conservative law firm. even served as the dean of a law school for a time. but eastman will be forever remembered as one of the legal master minds behind donald trump's attempted coup. specifically the plan to get congress to reject electors in states joe biden won. it appears he will lose his license in the state of california. a california judge remmed eastman be disbarred. the evidence clearly proves that eastman and president trump entered into an agreement to obstruct the joint session of congress on january 6th. the judge also added quote, the scale and egregiousness far surpasses the misconduct at issue. now that is a reference to donald sagretti, a former campaign lawyer for richard nixon best known for coining a rodent themed phrase for political dirty tricks we cannot repeat on this program. his law license was suspended in california. he ultimately served prison time for his own attempts to subvert the democratic process. so that's not a great comparison for john eastman. at one level,

. >> for years, justice clarence thomas has secretly accepted luxury gifts from a gop mega donor, harlan private jet flights, luxury yacht cruises, and according to the report, the supreme court justice never reported them on annual financial disclosures. >> jon: victimless! it is a victimless crime! [bleep] it. when we come back, gary clark jr. will be joining me on the show. so don't go away. [cheers and applause] ♪ limu emu ♪ ♪ and doug ♪ hello, ghostbusters. it's doug... ... of doug and limu. we help people customize and save hundreds on car insurance with liberty mutual. anyway, we got a bit of a situation here. ♪♪ uh-huh. uh-huh. ♪♪ [ metal groans] sure, i can hold. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty liberty liberty liberty ♪ ghostbusters: frozen empire. in theaters now. ♪ when your child starts getting into everything, you may need a little help. so duracell created the only lithium coin batteries with a bitter coating to help discourage swallowing. ♪ [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome back to "the daily show." my guest tonight: a grammy award-winning musician whose new albu

that's clarence thomas from all we know in terms of his, well, his interest in vacationing with very wealthy people who pay for his vacations. but for him to come out and directly address this court gives you insight into how. >> and a huge evolution for him. which is important to remember. and he is quite a traditionalist when it comes to the supreme court. he is very careful to the frustration of many in the democratic base and how he has talked about the court. the blue ribbon commission, which means i'm going to commission a report that will go on a shelf? >> and to echo what you said, he was kind of sick of it and that is significant on the court. >> and at any old time when clarence thomas and chaired those hearings. >> our coverage of the state of the union will continue now with our colleagues. don't go anywhere. stay right here. >>> good evening and welcome to msnbc's state of the union coverage. i'mtonight president joe biden gave a rousing speech just a few feet from where we are now. noting the country is eyeing a reflection point with democracy under threat at home and a

also harlan crow, a man that's been in the news recently because of his lavish patronage with clarence thomas that includes lavish plane flights and questionable real estate purchases. to the central players in the swift affair were these men, john o'neal and they coauthored the book unfit for command. that would became the main force for the false and misleading accusations against senatormi kerry. john o'neal became the director ofbe the most conservative movement most prominent anti-islamen groups, the david horowitz freedom center which focuses on allies to destroy american values. jerome corse went onto become one ofen the leading componentsf the perther conspiracy which went to claim barack obama was not born in the united states. he later went onto become bureau chief for the foe wars. of all the conservatives in the swift vote smear there's one man credit under being its mastermind. as new york magazine puts it it was him who turned their fringe allegations into a campaign funded by millions of dollars in shadowy contributions. where is chris today? where is she? well, he's running pr

even the fact clarence thomas was part of the supreme court decision, if you care about our democracy, the integrity of the court, the legitimacy of the decision making, the conflicts abound, and he should not have been part of that decision, but they can't help it. and then you see the hand fistedness, right? it's a procureium decision, no one wants to sign their name to it, you have the concuring justices giving the one-two punch and saying to me what has been the most serious, harsh, and i think not really given enough attention, statement about what's going on with the majority on that court. and i will say nothing has shaken me as much as the language in that -- >> the suggestion that the conservative justices on the court are basically trying to shield future insurrectionists. >> i can't even say suggestions. they said the majority attempts to insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their hold ipfederal office. the intent assigns intentionality to that majority. that should frighten all of us. people say why didn't they dissent. i would like for them to d

here now to react is teresa moreno, justice clarence thomas and president of the network.rig in the spokesmaniary committee during the brett kavanaugh confirmation hearing. all right, i will start with you. does ford's timing seem a little bit suspect? >> you know, if you are lookingt infor new information about the esteemed glossy poured, it thise is not the place to look. it is an implausible story. at thest end of the book, it was uncorroborated implausible story that she brushes over some of forthe real problems, for examh isher own friend saying this is not something we did and this doesn't happen. at the end of the day, this t seems like an attempt to keep kavanauge neh in the news and to keep her own name and the news. shsle is obviously -- he talks about things like going to a sleep over at oprah's house and. meeting backstage. a lot of things interesting have happened since her and i think,e the pr team she detailstr following her through the book seems to be using her again tor try to get this back in the spotlight. itis is election year, of course, let's bring this topic up again.

interestingly, justice clarence thomas didn't attend. nice to know he's willing to recuse himself from something. then the big moment, the president's entrance. he took his sweet time getting down the aisle. as the president made his way, the crowd chanted >> four more years! >> four more years! >> four more years! >> stephen: four more years! of walking to the podium! then he finally got to the podium, where speaker of the house mike johnson got the privilege of standing next to vice president kamala harris. and because he was standing that close to a woman, his son got an alert on his phone. [laughter] the president started off by invoking history. >> in january 1941, franklin roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation. >> stephen: and he said, "hey, joe!" [laughter] joe talked about the war in ukraine, and introduced the latest member of the nato alliance. >> and today we've made nato stronger than ever. just this morning, sweden officially joined and their minister is here tonight. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: biden touted his economic

. >> for years, justice clarence thomas has secretly accepted luxury gifts from a gop mega donor, harlanfts like private jet flights, luxury yacht cruises, and according to the report, the supreme court justice never reported them on annual financial disclosures. >> jon: victimless! it is a victimless crime! [bleep] it. when we come back, gary clark jr. will be joining me on the show. so don't go away. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome back to "the daily show." my guest tonight: a grammy award-winning musician whose new album is called "jpeg raw." please welcome gary clark jr.! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> amazing! >> jon: mm! gary, i -- so you know how much i love your music and what you do. >> i have heard. >> jon: you have heard. i bother gary quite frequently, because i am such a fan of yours and because i love music, but this album, "jpeg raw," i just feel it is a masterpiece. >> thank you. >> jon: you killed it, dude. >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> jon: it is so good. >> thank you. i felt that way but it is good to hear somebody say that out loud.

it was so bad, they even lost clarence thomas. what should we infer from it. overread what your describing in terms of today's arguments. >> i think what we infer is that this is one of a deeply embarrassing cases that seem to originate in texas and come up through the fifth circuit and the courts think they are the deciders and we've seen a long pattern of these cases including sb-4, that texas immigration bill, that caused so much of a ruckus last week at the court. that there is a lot of judicial bodies out there that want to force the supreme court to move further and faster and the supreme court doesn't seem to be having it. i think the other thing we could infer and this is the scary bit, is that we had at least two justices who were kind of chomping at the bit to talk about the comstock act that is 120 some years old and if they have their drudgers, we could see a future case in the not so distant future in which that law, which was, as i said, an if anti-pornography and anti-obscenity law defunct, but it could be abortion nationwide for everyone and th

. >> it just feels like clarence thomas sends up a flare on like the crazy topic of his choice, and out in the country conservatives follow suit. i mean, do you think this is ultimately going to be if not this case a case will head to the supreme court? >> this isn't about simply stalling abortion. if you wanted to end abortion, you would actually be in favor of stalling access to contraception. it's not about abortion, not about preventing unwanted pregnancies but about controlling sexuality and in particular enforcing a set of gender roles like women who rely on abortion and birth control as means of controlling their production capacity. justice thomas is very much the intellectual genius behind this entire project. he often writes alone on the court. he did not get anyone to sign onto his concurrence in dobbs. it doesn't matter because he has an army of former law clerks sitting in places who hear these flares as they go up, listen to what he's saying, read the opinions, and then put them out in their own courts as part of the law in their circuits. that's what we're seeing in the f

to just give clarence thomas which he wants which is absurd hearings on any manner of issues quite >> not exactly. the court has a structural problem and the structural problem is that anybody who wanted to file this case could go down to amarillo, texas, where judge matthew crismark is, and it's like putting your quarter in the candy bar machine be the only judge are going to get an amarillo is him. then, they knew that after getting in, he would do something incredibly dopey, like file a nationwide injunction, making it impossible for anyone in the country to get this drug. we have a form shopping, a judge shopping problem in this country that i should note the courts are trying to address, but for the moment, the court has the problem of, one rogue judge, rogue fifth circuit that last huge chunks of his irrational, indefensible logic, and the court had no choice but to take this case. as long as we have judges that are way to the fringes, judges who make samuel alito and client thomas look centrist, those cases are going to rock it up to the court and the court is going to be embar

supreme court justice clarence thomas is facing new controversy after reports he hired a law clerk whowas previously found to have sent racist text messages. crystal clanton was the field director at the conservative student group turning point usa when she set the messages, including one that said "i hate black people." justice thomas has come out in defense of clanton, who graduated from the antonin scalia law school at george mason university, which has long had ties to conservative donors and has maintained close relationships with supreme court justices. in a historic victory for college sports, the dartmouth men's basketball team has voted to unionize. the players voted 13-2 to join service employees international union local 560. this comes as dartmouth is seeking to overturn a february decision by the national labor relations board classifying the basketball players as employees of the university, which granted them the right to unionize. in other education news, the evangelical christian school liberty university has agreed to pay an unprecedented $14 million federal fine for

clarence thomas and sam alito have taken what really looked like bribes from billionaires to take them on fancy vacations. they sit on cases in which they shouldn't. his wife is an insurrectionist. he didn't feel he had to recuse. no one says these men made mistakes. i lovingly disagree with you as well. what mistake did she make? people meet on the job all the time. they date people on the job all the time. this is not an unusual thing. is it the best decision? i don't know. it doesn't seem like it worked out very well. but that has nothing to do with the rico case, sir. i'm going to give you the last word. >> my friends joy and katie, i'm going to very respectfully disagree. when d.a. willis was running, she ran against a sitting prosecutor who was embroiled in a sexual harassment lawsuit. he ultimately was successful, but d.a. willis said she would never be in a relationship with anybody who worked for her, when she broke that rule, she opened herself up. this was in a sense a self-inflicted wound. and in that way, it was a success for the defense. i don't think they ever really exp

republican judges using corpus linguistics , some of it has found its way into supreme court justice clarence thomas's opinions. university of connecticut school professor anya bernstein says "a lot of what legal corpus work and still is allow you to pick and choose your history. you pick and choose your corpus, you pick and choose what you are putting into the software, you pick and choose your results." today, senator sheldon whitehouse said this. >> dave opened up a whole new arena for fake fact-finding with the new so-called history and tradition analysis that they brought to bear on reproductive rights cases and in brewing, on gun rights cases. because you can fake your way through history and tradition very easily. you go back into history and cherry pick the fact that you like. real historians will come in and say that was ridiculous but it doesn't matter, you got what you wanted. the ability to do that fake fact-finding is going to get worse, not better. >> leading of our discussion tonight is democratic senator sheldon whitehouse, a member of the senate judiciary committee, the chair of the s

. >> the other piece of it, is there something about the rick scott, the clarence thomas, the kysten party and seem to disdain and to despise the poor? you know what i mean? who act against their interest. she was just almost gleeful about turning away the minimum wage and siding with hedge funds. is it that you fall in love with wealth, you fall in love and scorn the thing that you had faced? >> that is very interesting. you know the saying many poor people think they are temporary for the disadvantaged or set upon millionaires. one day they will have it and this is not a permanent position for them and therefore they don't permanently identify with the poverty itself. i was poor and i always think about the fact that i was poor. i shop off the sales rack. that is the way my brain operates. and also because i am constantly in contact with the poor people i grew up around and a visit and you see up close what poverty means. you see, you know, the struggle of it and how hard it is just to put food on the table, how much more time it takes to go out and buy something if you can afford