i calling for our guest, representative hank johnson. go ahead.ng, many johnson. you for being my representative. i am a one of your constituent, so i think you're doing a stellar job with. keep up the great work. and i just want to say that, you know, the dual standard of justice tha these maga people are spouting is really just a red herring, and it's the crocodile tears of rino tos. real republicans know that the knuckle-draggers' maga rinos, they're a bunch of pretenders, and they're living in a fantasy world. you know, that trial in new york is because of the magnitude of, you know, traitor trump's actions. and i think, you know, i hope they throw him under the jail. i think you're doing a fantastic job. i really appreciate your steadfastness and your levelheadedness and just keep up the fantastic work. >> guest: thank you so much, jim. >> host: representative, we talked a little bit about it not directly by name, but merrick garland on the contempt vote today, what do you think of the actual vote taking place, what are your plans for it? >> guest: well, of c

host: this is representative hank johnson giving as his time, member of the judiciary committee here, (202) 748-8000 for democrats and independents and (202) 748-8002. rudy is in ohio, republican line. you are on with our guest, go ahead please. caller: i'm listening to guy talk about mag alike it's a dirty word and leaves a bad taste in his mouth. this -- does this guy know it means makemerica great again? what a clown. guest: thank you for your opinion maga means a lot of things to a lot of people. for you, it may mean make america great again but to me, it means making americo white again. it means going back to a time when people who look like me did not have any rights in this country. that's what maga means to me but we are a country of many people, all of us have different views and backgrounds and we have to how to accept each other as equals, respect each other for our opinions and i respect you for yours. despite our disagreements, we need to find common ground to proceed so as to make this country the kind of country that lives up to the values and ideals that are stated i

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hank johnson has an ethics bill on the house floor.nd ask our leaders are you going to support ethics reform? no more nice letters. no more, oh, no more of that stuff. are you going to support the bills to stop these people from graft? >> amen, my brother. elie mystal, who understands what jim crow was and also what the grift looks like. because the grift is good for clarence and them. thank you very much. >>> coming up, how david hilliard, the man -- oh, sorry. >> his fascist regime headed by attorney general mitchell, has concocted a grand scheme to bring down a conspiracy upon the black panther party. >> coming up, how david hilliard the man you just saw in that video, the former chief of staff of the black panther party, wound up on a tiktok video supposedly endorsing trump. we'll speak to his grandson next. dangerous ladders. gutter muck. yuck. no wonder you hate cleaning your gutters. good thing there's leaffilter. our patented filter technology keeps leaves and debris out of your gutters forever. guaranteed. call 833- leaffilter

we are delighted to be joined by hank johnson, our colleague from georgia who chairs the subcommittee on the court there. we are going to give you your five minutes as well. i am going to kick it off with this, what is the relationships in the white house between the private corruption of the justices and the public corruption of justice? because you can imagine if we had a squeaky clean justice alito and a squeaky clean justice thomas and so on, they could still be visiting all of this damage and all of our legal doctrines. somehow to me it seems like it's not just a coincidence and a happenstance that we get the steamroller against all of the legislative output of the civil rights movement, the women's movement, at we get the astounding private corruption of the justices. just wondering your reflections on that. to prove bias in the other side would probably settle. so the pattern is very, very telling. and if you think back to where it agency capture which is court capture came from, began with folks like railroad barons put in their folks under the railroad commission so that the

my good friend from georgia a member of the caucus and strong advocate lgbtq+y, representative hank johnsonr. johnson: thank representative takano for all that you do foruman rights, civil rights for everyone in thisgardless of what your sexual when you stop and think about it that's such -- i mean we sh judginge each other based on who love. and that's why i am so happy to say happy pride month to all there because none of us are free i not free. and it hartens me, representative takano, this day time, 2024, when we see that shows that about 8% dults in this country identify lgbtq. and the reason it's not moree we have been conditioned and we are to say who they are because the oldere you have to lose by who you are. but i'll tell also heartening that in 2024, in millennial generation, our millennials identify what that tells you is that, all the older folks have made it such that young people feel more comfortable inidentifying as who they are. they are not steeped in how mucf i come out. they areve anything to lose by coming out. and it's healthier for them than been for the older people

pleasure to with you and with vice ranking member as particular shout-out also to congressman hank johnson who has the coordinate position that iche democrat on the courts subcommittee of the judici committee, and who has been across several years and many issues. t for this conversation is rooted the doctrines of regulatory captureture. these are doctrines about which literature and msome decades the evil genius of the scheme was to take the tactics of regulatory capture, agency capture, and not to administrative agencies, back to our courts particularly to our supreme and in thef that, we have seen the judicial selection process nominally s of the federalist society, you can't actually find recommendations or support for the so-called trump list. that was cooked up in a room byer funding billionairesuts them on the court, then the billio amenable justices are provided rich and famous. at the fund dark-many factories in friendly think tanks and universities and the doctrines thaare cooked up there like about major question the doctrinere then brought to the court through the tillers of in

member of the oversight committee will be given five minutes we are delighted to be joined by hank johnsonre calling from georgia for the judiciary committee that shares thewh subcommittee on the courts there but will give you your five minutes as well. i'm going to kick it off with this. what is the relationship between the private corruption of the justices and the public corruption of justice. you can imagine if we had a squeaky clean justice alito and his squeaky clean justice thomas and so on they could still be all this damage on a legal doctrine but somehow it to me it seems like it is not just a coincidence and a happenstance that we get this steam roller against legislated output of the civil rights movement and the women's movement and the labor movement at the same time we get an astounding private corruption of the justices. just wondering about your reflections on that? >> yearsrs ago when i began this effort i took a look at the fivh the conservative majority was unified but could not attract one of the other votes. relevant to republican special interest was involved. they w