in a separate opinion, justice sam alito signaled there were no second amendment concerns, emphasizing there is a simple remedy: congress can amend the law. but the ruling prompted a fierce dissent by justice sotomayor, who argued the decision would have deadly consequences. "17 states and the district of columbia currently have laws banning bump stocks, and congress, senate majority leaguer could chuck sumer said democrats are led ready to affect a federa ban with republican support. and gun-control advocates that america doesn't want a ban on bump stocks before another tragedy. >> the american people have waited long enough for real action. the president has said he will it's time to act. >> reporter: now we are waiting for a decision at another gun case that those raise far-reaching second amendment concerns. that one is whether the government can ban a person

the quickest way we could take action and keep people safe, in the most recent dissident justice sam alitoelf, he said it's within congress's power to make this right and the horrible did not change the statutory test, that event demonstrated asemi automatic rifle with a bump stock can have the same legal effect as a machine-gun a the need to amend the law does not change the ls meeting . and it justice alito went on to say there is a simple remedy for the treatment of bump stocks. congress can a twould have done so if atf had stuck with his earlier interpretation. now that the situation is clear b6■ is not a showboat . if you weoz hhere back then we were trying to move as quickly aspossible to get something done to save lives , first nistratively, i a with the court this is an in my m to do something iabout it . and i cannot imagine anyone of my colleagues standing there saying they wouldn't want to do the right thing to continue to save lives .■n( turn a blind eye to what happened in las vegas. i don't think they want to turn a blharvest festival, 60 murdered and the thousands of familie

cannot undo the corruption and the ill gains that are being secured by a supreme court that includes sam alito, sitting on cases they have no business sitting on. so i do see this extraordinary dissonance, not just with alito's whole story but with how democrats are approaching it. as though they can make up for their hands-off attitude to the supreme court by appointing people to the lower court. you know, those good people in the lower courts will be reversed every time by alito and thomas and their ilk unless democrats try to tackle this and impose real penalties on justices who break the rules that they themselves have claimed to follow. >> especially as the court is packing four or five terms worth of what buster cases into one term we're talking, right now, there are 29 pending decisions that we are waiting for from this court. i think 16 of which are major cases. the fact that we haven't heard boo about the mark. how do you read the court's silence right now? the fact that they are going to effectively jam these decisions into the last remaining weeks of june. the court is out as of jul

. >> he can put more sam alito's on the court yeah. would never say this in any other context, but because resellers is 100% right in everything that he said, there and it's shouldn't be no surprise anybody that sam alito or clarence thomas as a conservative justice or that sonia sotomayor berliner kagan, or liberal justices. a lot of what we've seen over the past few weeks and now months of this sort of non scandal, scandal is a lot of, as your, as your guest earlier said, pearl-clutching. >> okay. but if if justice alito's wife the flag that she raised, if that was raised by ruth bader ginsburg, i would submit that that would be a trending tattoo and people would plank in front of that flag. well, that he is anything that notorious one did is by definition awesome. i love this. this is job. >> i don't know about that because one of the things, we shouldn't have supreme court justices driving around with bumper stickers on their car talking about who they support in an election or what political causes they believe in. and so, so what

cannot undo the corruption and the ill gains that are being secured by a supreme court including sam alitousiness sitting on. i do see this extraordinary disinnocence with how democrats are approaching this as they can make up for their hands off attitude to the supreme court by appointing good people to the lower court. they will be reversed every time by alito and thomas unless democrats try the tackle this and impose real penalties on justices. >> as the court is packing like four or five terms wort of block buster cases into one term. i mean we are talking there are 29 pending decisions that we are waiting for from this court. 16 of which are major cases. the fact we have not heard boo about any of those cases, how do you read the court's silence that they will effectively jam the decisions because the court is out as of july 1, right? >> yeah. the supreme court sets its own deadline. it is typically the end of june at the latest, early july. so they are going to pack in so many block busters into the next three or four weeks of news cycles in the hopes i'm certain of having them get l

the chinese flag, the united states' flag, and that flag from sam alito's wife.oves flags! for more on china's landing on the moon, we go live to cape canaveral with josh johnson. [cheers and applause] josh, this is a huge scientific achievement. china is the first country to reach the far side of the moon. what does this mean? >> i'll tell you what it means, michael. it means america's gotta get back to the moon right now. someone call neil armstrong! or lance armstrong! or lance bass! one of them! >> michael: why? why do we have to get back to the moon? >> 'cause the moon is the only thing america has left! we don't have the best cars anymore, we don't have the best democracy anymore. even the best basketball players are from, like, slovak-astan. all we have left is the moon, and now china's taking that from us, too? no, as a matter of national pride, we're going back. >> michael: so we're going to build a whole new moon program? that's going to be expensive as hell! >> oh, yeah, it's going to bankrupt us. we got to cancel medicare and education immediately. so

justice sam alito, as is allowed under filing rules, got an extension. margaret?margaret: jan crawford, very busy as always at the supreme court. well, secretary of state antony blinken will press for a cease-fire in gaza and a hostage release when he travels monday to the middle east. meanwhile, the israeli offensive against hamas continues. today, israel defended its bombing of a united nations affiliated school where palestinian civilians had taken shelter. cbs's chris livesay reports from tel aviv. >> reporter: israeli forces showed no signs of slowing their pursuit of hamas around rafah, just a day after international scrutiny over an air strike on a school where thousands of palestinians civilians had been sheltering. hiding behind them, dozens of terrorists, using civilians as human shields, says an israeli spokesman. >> they systematically operate from schools, u.n. facilities, hospitals, and mosques. >> reporter: two independent weapons experts tell cbs news it appears israel used u.s.-made bombs, the same used at a refugee camp for palestinians last mont

and in fact, i think that there are a lot of individuals that sam alito being one who had thought about this and thought this through, i mean, sam alito harry admires is one of the most consequential decisions we've ever seen in american political history, when they were swapped out on this issue of abortion. and so i'm not sure they're unintended, but what we have seen is the political way this plays out in places like kansas in places like ohio, we actually see white women, white college-educated women being galvanized and ways that we haven't seen them be galvanized around a particular issue that's going to help joe biden when you come to places like michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin here and elana georgia in georgia, but even more importantly, the secrets that most people aren't talking about as georgia is an important state, but georgia is not the state that's in the top four or five states because north carolina has replaced georgia and where democrats are focusing their dollars and resources because of a gubernatorial race but in states like north carolina, you're going to see th

in a separate opinion, justice sam alito signaled there were no second amendment concerns, emphasizingre is a simple remedy: congress can amend the law. but the ruling prompted a fierce dissent by justice sonia sotomayor, who argued the decision would have deadly consequences. 17 states and the district of columbia currently have laws banning bump stocks. in congress, senate majority leaguer could chuck schumer said democrats are led ready to enact a federal ban, but need republican support. and gun-control advocates said that america doesn't want a ban on bump stocks before another tragedy. >> the american people have waited long enough for real action. the president has said he will sign a bill. it's time to act. >> reporter: now we are waiting for a decision in another gun case that those raise far-reaching second amendment concerns. that one is whether the government can ban a person under domestic violence restraining order from having a gun. norah? >> norah: jan crawford, thank you very much. the historic rainfall across south florida this week has dropped more than 2 feet in som

is sam alito's wife telling us something about justice alito's retirement plans?hould we be that a supreme court justice's pows is talking about the american media with open contempt? tonight, we have brand new audio from that same event where justice alito himself tells us what he thinks about the fourth estate. the press. the other voice is an associate of lauren windsor's who was also at this event. >> i just wanted to ask you why do you think the supreme court is being so attacked and being targeted by the media these days? >> it is a simple reason. they don't like our decisions and they don't how we anticipate we may decide some cases coming up. that's the beginning and the end of it. and there are groups of very well funded by ideological groups that have spearheaded these attacks. that's what it is. gets a lot of money. and they have spent a fortune investigating clarence thomas for example. you know everything he has ever done his entire life. and they've done some of that with me too. but you know they look for nit little thing they can find and try to ma

my podcast and elsewhere, criticize legitimacy of the supreme court and talk about whether or not sam alito clarence thomas should recuse themselves from -- that's open debate. people who have a problem with judge merchan not recusing himself, you can have the argument the court of appeals will have the final word. attacking jurors is a bridge too far. a prosecutor would've said, and i said, we did not win every case we brought, alvin bragg would've taken in stride an acquittal in this case. the rational thing to have done , you can fight in the court of appeals, see you disagree with the jurors decisions but we created a climate -- not you and i, but trump and his supporters created a climate in which it's acceptable to talk about attacking jurors and putting their safety in jeopardy. it is an unusual thing. the white-collar case does not involve violence. keeping the jurors anonymous is a function of donald trump and his supporters. it's not a good thing. >> that's an important thing to remember. there's a reason we do not know their names. i want to ask about this propublica piece, trump

just in sam alito talking about his wife's rights to fight with her neighbor. she has the right.wants to take away the right of all women in the u.s. to make their own health care decisions with their own doctor. that is a consequence of trump. it is interesting. you made the point. as for the extremism, you have, in your adult career, always worked against republicans including the bush era. so i know that you disagree with bush about a lot of things. i want to play where him and obama were on the same page to underscore how extreme it is to have not only trump, a felon trying not to go to jail and other republicans bluntly attacking the rule of law. >> i have a lot of confidence generally in the fbi. >> i thought the jury verdict should stand. i felt the punishment was severe. >> we are not supposed to mettle in criminal investigations and that has been our practice. i think there are certain procedures that the fbi follows or the doj follows. >> even nixon would not admit to what mike johnson and trump did today. from your perspective what do you and the democrats do about tha

instead of sandra day o'conner who would vote to uphold the right to abortion, we have sam alito.servatives. it's a huge right ward shift. >> let's talk about how conservatives have historically done a better job of leveraging state courts. why is that? is that a mechanism or is that just that conservatives sort of figured this out before progressives did? >> well conservatives figured it out first sort of because they had to. so one of the things that i say about federalism, federalism is for losers because if you lose at the federal level you can keep on fighting in the states. that's what happened during the civil rights movement. there was resistance, massive resistance at the state level. and i think that experience sort of soured progressives on state authority because they associated it with the resistance to civil rights and they thought about the national government as the good guys and the source of the solution. but you know sometimes you lose the national government, even if you're a majority of the population and that's what's happened now. so our constitution has all

i never thought going into this i would be able to get something newsworthy from sam alito.n, he's not the chief justice, but as a sitting justice, i would imagine he would be the height of discretion, particularly as he's come under attack for the political flag waving in his yard. you would think his guard would be up more. i didn't go in thinking i'm going to get him. particular when i spoke with him in 2023, he gave an answer that wasn't nutworthy. i didn't publish in, but i thought during the pending year, his might be more aggrieved, and the pro publica article had not come out yet. so, i thought if i approach this from a religious and moral standpoint, and it's not biden or trump or democrats or republicans, but it's really about a religious lens, a moral lens, he would be more prone to giving me a response that would be different, by more substantive. he could have very well answered how he did in 2023. he had that capability, but he didn't. he could have answered how justice roberts answered, he didn't do that, either. so for people who say this is a nothing burger,

institutionalist like biden to bring up any ofit the nefarious extracurricular activities oaf people like sam alito and clarence thomas, but certainly the sort of partisan make-up of the bench is fair game if you're talking about what happens in the next four years. tom -- tommy, john and tommy, the economy, right? this is the most i think tricky terrain for biden. this goes back to your first answer where the fight -- what is it the work continues? >> finish the job. >> finish the job. >> it's f the patriots. >> sure. the amount of economic populism biden has put into action whether it's capping insulin prices, taking on large corporations, capping junk fees, being the first president to walk the picket line, i do wonder whether he's going to be really be able to take about any of that tonight because so much of his posture already feels like it's on the back foot, right, with trump and the inflation message resonates to an eerie degree among the american public. >> yeah, and that's why i think he can't spend a ton of time talking about what he's accomplished. he can say when i got into officehe i

or sam alito or clarence thomas is dragging out a dissent behind the scenes to run out the time for donaldvery day they don't rule is another day he doesn't have to face trial or discovery. but this case reeks of john roberts. >> let's not mess up republican chances of getting a majority. you wanted to be a republican. mark, thank you so much. >>> is this loss unique or does it say something about the progressive movement. i'll talk to an original member of the squad after the break. tk shop etsy for thoughtful pieces made by real people to bring a little something extra to the ordinary. find items that add wow to walls and make you fall in love with your family room again. when you want one-of-a-kind pieces to refresh your home... etsy has it. (vo) in two seconds, eric will realize they're gonna need more space... (man) gotta sell the house. (vo) oh...open houses. or, skip the hassles and sell directly to opendoor. (man) wow. (vo) when life's doors open, we'll handle the house. nexium 24hr prevents heartburn acid before it begins. get all-day and all-night heartburn acid prevention with j

i'm struck by the fact that sam alito excuses away his insurrectionist flags by pointing at his wifet. this is a judge in the court of law. they know how to make a sound argument in their own defense and they are not even trying to explain away millions of dollars in gifts he never accounted for. >> i think in some sense, this is the disspiritting part, it is because we have trained them with our own complacency about this. we have signaled time and time again that this seems kind of bad. but oh well. you know. they're the monarchs and we're the serfs so we tolerate it. once the court overturns roe on the most bogus premise and does so suffering years of precedent without explaining, once it does away with centuries of understanding of the second amendment to put guns in the hands of everybody, once the court says oh, you know what? we're going to do away with the epa's ability to function using an invented doctrine with no roots in the constitution or statutory interpretation. they have been doing this in tandem with these flagrant ethics violations. these flagrant statements. publi

sam alito was always going to be the man to write that opinion. but in the coming days and weeks we will get these decisions on abortion involving the abortion pill and i think alito is quite likely to stick his neck out in that decision and write about how he believes medication abortion is unlawful under existing federal law. this is a radicalized justice staking out the positions activists in the grass roots want him to take. legitimizing them and shifting the window and eventually he hopes transforming them into the law of the land. >> i mean, it is quite obvious that the dna of the christian conservative warrior class has imprinted itself upon the supreme court. when we talk about the relationship and politics on donald trump and the christian warrior class, i wonder if trumpism hasn't imprinted itself on them. donald trump is in a church. a big church. and the call and response is the word bs. and rudy giuliani is calling fani willis one of the most vulgar things you can call someone with racist undertones. >> look, the church has changed pol

supreme court justices john roberts and sam alito secretly recorded by a liberal activist posing as a for the supreme court. here a little bit of the exchange with justice alito, listen. >> i support your ruling on dobbs. i support i'm very pro-life. i don't know how we bridge that gap. you know, like how do we get people -- >> -- i wish i knew. i wish i knew. we need to do what we're supposed to do but this is a bigger problem. this is way above us. >> steve: here with reaction, former alito law clerk and utah senator mike lee, mike, good morning to you. >> good morning. so this woman, lauren windsor went to this event. this historical event that they have had for many, many years and pretended to be a religious conservative. essentially she was doing a g.o.p. sting. she was trying to get the justices to size some crazy stuff. but, ultimately, the stuff that made all the headlines was that she has discovered and alito confirmed america is polarized. i think we knew that. >> yeah. i think we knew that already. and so, look, she showed up as a wolf in sheep's clothing, trying to run ju

and talk about whether or not sam alito or justice clarence thomas should recuse themselves from certain matters. that's good and respectful debate. you can have that argument, the board of appeals will have the final word of that. but attacking jurors in our system i think it's a bridge too far. as you pointed out, a prosecutor would have said. i said on a number of occasions we win every case we brought. alvin bragg would have taken in stride an acquittal in this case. i think the good and rational thing to have done was you know you can fight in the court of appeal, you can say you disagree with the jurors decision. but we have created a climate. not we, not you and i, but trump and his supporters have created a climate of attacking jurors and putting their safety in jeopardy. it's a new thing in a white collar case that the jurors identities were kept anonymous. that is the landscape that has been created by trump. >> that's an important thing for people to remember. there's a reason we don't know their names. i want to talk about this propolitics piece that just came out. it talks a

with so many shows treated less as a scandal, what did sam alito say that was so terrible. >> i hateg into the event and secretly taping anyone saying anything you guys have been on the cocktail party circuit were people you might know, and say i watched you on this and listen to that segment and have a nice conversation to be friendly, you're not exactly bearing your soul with the person and it sounded like a clock to party conversation to me but there is no hypocrisy, it's not like you said i'm on the supreme court in the ten commandments is the only law that exist anywhere in the world and if anything the decision that came down afterwards 9 - 0 on the morning-after pill that didn't grandstanding in the christian theocracy and everything is still subject to the rule of law and i wish we would talk more about the fact that somebody tried to show up at kavanaugh's house and kill him and that there's protester showing up in contravention of federal law and state law outside of their homes chanting out all hours for presidential areas and is part and parcel of not respecting the supre

i'm struck by, the fact that sam alito excuses away his insurrectionist flags by pointing at his wifef law. they know how to make a sound argument in their own defense and they're not even trying. in the way that thomas is failing to argue the millions of dollars in gifts that he forgot to document. >> we have signaled time and time again this seems kind of bad but oh well. they're the monarchs and we're the serves and we tolerate it. once the court overturns roe on the most bogus premise right. and does so you know suffering years of precedence without explaining. once it does away with centuries of the understanding of the second amendment to put guns in the hands of everybody. once the court says, oh you know what, we're going to do away with the epas ability to function using an invented doctrine that has no roots in the constitution or statutory interpretation. they've been doing this and doing this and doing this in tandem with these flagrant ethics violations. these flagrant sort of statements, public statements right. when you're hoisting a flag that's not a t-shirt. that's no

last year, we had sam alito explaining how swamp lands work. this year we have alito telling us how emergency medicine works. now justice gorsuch is telling us how air pollution works. and now in one case, it is not going to be a bunch of cases, judges across country are going to get to substitute their judgment about science, water we drink, drugs we take, about how to land an airplane. and the court says that's the way it is going to be. >> so dahlia, let's talk about the practical implications that you explained to our viewers. it is not just the supreme court and the nine justices that will be able to interpret the administrative agency's intent, purpose and law that congress passes, because the constitution says congress passes the law, right? there is a reason why we have the branches of government. are you saying then that a trial court judge in some court in some state can use his or her interpretation of a law to be able to now decide something that impacts the litigants there? and then are we going to expect more litigation wind its w

trump's conviction, the liberal medias second favorite topic recently has been supreme court justice sam alito'sontroversy. we have some very interesting news on that front tonight out of a deep blue city right here in california. also still ahead, a tornado in missouri rips the canopy off a gas station. and a thief helps himself to a drink before ransacking. the days best viral videos are next. first a live look to buque, i walk, the hawk eye states oldest city. who knew. we are coming right back. [♪♪] higher shipping rates may be “the cost of doing business...” but at what cost? turn shipping to your advantage. with low cost ground shipping from the united states postal service. ♪ my daughter is mila. she is 19 months old. she is a little ray of sunshine. one of the happiest babies you'll probably ever meet. children with down syndrome typically have a higher risk for developing acute myeloid leukemia or just leukemia in general. and here we are. saint jude children's research hospital works day after day to find cures and save the lives of children with cancer and other life threatening disea

. >> i want to redo something that sam alito said last summer in an interview with the wall street journalis is a controversial view, but i'm willing to say it, he says. no provision in the constitution gives congress the authority to regulate the supreme court, period. what do you think of that? >> it is called legislation and the constitution does give legislation power to the congress. it gives the ability to put a code of ethics on the executive branch. yes a president can veto it, but we can override that veto. certainly there was a sense of while the constitution said little about what the court system would look like, there were massive decisions made by congress to decide how the judiciary would be structured and run. so absolutely that does not pass any sort of common sense or legal examination. >> final question and quickly. on the question of having the chief justice come before the senate. he has basically blown off an inquiry from the chair of the judiciary committee who reached out to him. samuel alito has written to say i am not recusing myself. basically they are like, you

and these abortion cases, most notably dobbs as lisa documented, sam alito was always going to be the man to write that opinion overruling roe v. wade. in the coming days and weeks, we're going to get these decisions on abortion, especially involving the abortion pill. and i think alito is quite likely to stick his neck out in that decision and write about how he believes medication abortion is unlawful under existing federal law, under the comstock act of 1873. this is a radicalized justice, very much maximizing his impact by staking out the positions that activists in the grassroots want him to take, legitimizing them and shifting the window and eventually, he hope, transforming them into the law of the land. >> yeah, i mean, it's quite obvious that the dna of the christian conservative warrior class has imprinted itself upon the supreme court, but lisa, when we talk about the relationship in politics between, for example, donald trump and his pro-maga coalition and the conservative christian warrior class, i wond every if trumpism hasn't imprinted on them. i'm thinking about those

maybe that is the reason for the delay behind-the-scenes but it is possible that justice sam alito hasn dragging out the process to run as much interference for trump as possible, run out the clock and make sure his guy doesn't have to see any meaningful progress in this case before the november election. >> i want to shift to guns. you have a number of decisions in this space sent in by this court that have said, for example, okay, y'all, just go ahead and stick this little bump stock thing on here and fire 800 rounds a minute. no human figure, i will repeat again, justice thomas, no human finger can pull the trigger that fast. then you have, you have that extremism, again, playing out with respect to the latest decision, thomas was the lone dissenter, signifying the rest of the court's mad dash away from his extremist position on the second amendment. you have justice roberts talking about our nation's firearm laws preventing individuals who threaten ms. the >> physical harm to others from misusing them. coming down to an individual who is -- >> an abuser, domestic abuse or. >> an ab

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bring up any of the nefarious questionable activities, the extracurricular activities of people like sam alito and clarence thomas. certainly, the sort of partisan makeup of the bench is fair game if you're talking about what happens in the next four years. jon and tommy, the economy. this is the most, i think tricky terrain for biden, going back to your first answer, the fight, the work continues. >> finish the job. >> it is the patriots. >> sure, super bowl lxxix. he has, i think the thing that is frustrating to democrats and progressives, the amount of economic populism biden has put into action, capping insulin prices, taking on large corporations, banning junk fees, taking on live nation, inc. the first president to walk the picket line. i do wonder whether he will be able to talk about any of that tonight because so much of his posture already feels like it is on the back foot with trump and the inflation message resonates to an eerie degree among the american public. >> yeah, that is why he can't spend a ton of time talking about what he accomplished him even though he accomplished a lo

see it in these reports where, again, clarence thomas -- in the figures we saw today, you know, sam alitonin scalia, the hero of their movement, around $200,000. clarence thomas, $4 million. >> it's wild. >> that's why tim scott exists. that's why byron donalds exists. that's why candice owens exists, because the grift is good. there's a lot of money in telling white folks what they need to hear. >> it is amazing because when i looked at the chart, it was like, i thought that clarence thomas' was the total because it was so much bigger. scalia, like you said, is six figures. he's in the two, three -- this guy, you're right, it is a thing that the right is willing to pay extra to get women and especially black people to tell them what they want to hear about women and black people. tell them that black people don't want to be able to have a fearless fund. they shouldn't be able to give -- i wanted if i had time to ask if he supported the fearless fund being not able to give grants out. i'm sure he does because that's what he's supposed to say. >> look, i looked at that chart today. i look

depot picked robert kraft, the new england patriots owner, and paul singer who also amos he took sam alitor, okay? if you look back at that bar chart, there is another super pack there that is fair shake. see that there next to george latimer. now fair shake is backed by cryptocurrency interest who want to keep crypto lightly regulated. they are running ads against bowman, too, but they're not running ads on crypt they are running ads on, wait for it, israel. this is what citizens united has wrought. enormous swarms of money from anodyne sounding groups, pounding a candidate to while concealing what their own interests are it is a bizarre perversion of genuine democratic discourse that does not serve voters. but it works great for mega- donors. ♪ i'm lowering my a1c! ♪ jardiance works twenty-four seven in your body to flush out some sugar. and for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart disease, jardiance can lower the risk of cardiovascular death, too. serious side effects may include ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration that can lead to sudden worsening of kidney function, and

it doesn't mean he lacks obligation to step in here, but even if he does, clarence thomas and sam alitot ignore him. i think it's quite possible that the chief justice told thomas and alito, you need to stop doing this, it's a bad look for the court. reel it in, accept fewer gifts or follow the disclosure rules, and it's possible that they ignored him and said, you know, you can't do anything to make us, john. it's our decision. nobody can force us to recuse. it's also possible that the chief justice shrugged and said none of this is my problem. i'm not alito or thomas. i'm going to do my job the best i can. chief justice roberts doesn't seem to be breaking the rules. maybe this is being greeted by a yawn and a decision that it's not his problem. >> the disclosure rules, you mentioned have been changed. right? any push to have them be applied retroactively now? >> yes, some senate democrats and also house democrats are pushing for a binding code of ethics that is enforceable and one provision of some of these proposals would require retroactive disclosures because it's so clear that cla

clarence thomas and sam alito at the center of the court. >> what would somebody do to the right of a clarence thomas or samuel alito look like? we had to say good-bye to marissa. we brought in vaughn hillyard who has been covering the trump campaign for us. talking about the christian conservatism movement -- i think i'm getting double -- i'm hearing my voice twice, control room, if we can fix that. and talking about the christian conservatism movement, the energy that has been reenergized, reinvigorated with donald trump's first presidency and now with donald trump running again, what can you report to us about how that movement is being embraced or is it being embraced fully by donald trump's campaign team, and what might be a second donald trump administration? >> number one, there's questions about how much they will embrace, when they do take the white house, if they do because it's the heritage foundation, america's policy institute, some of the organizations creating the template, the policies they're going to hand over to the trump administration and say, here, do what you li

but one thing i want to say in all this, the bottom line is that sam alito has blamed this situation on his wife, martha-ann. that's why we're even talking about it and he is not suggested why he himself, a justices of the supreme court, couldn't have just taken the darn flagged down yourself. so you live there too, right? he lives there too, but he is not planning to recuse himself he's sort of put out there to congress his rationale for that explain the potential impact. okay. so what he said is that no reasonable observer could think that he has a conflict of interest here. but what it means is he is now sat on two really important cases that are part of the fallout from january 6. and we're going to get those rulings by the end of the term. one involves whether former president trump should be immune from election subversion for the events of at the end of 2020 and in 2021. and the other one involves whether defendants on january 6, who stormed the capital should be criminally charged with corruptly obstructing an official proceeding. and that involves donald trump to all right.

segment because there's other stuff i want to get to, but what's fascinating about this audio of sam alito is in charlie, you know this from these confirmation hearings that make headlines up on capitol in the senate when supreme court justices go through that process there, so choreograph there, so scripted they're told what to say, what not to say, and they're very careful and answering all these questions here is just like a few minutes of audio. got probably more candor from justice alito that we got during the confirmation process. yeah. i was just shocked by how unguarded he was. yeah again, these you're right. >> you've watched these confirmation hearings and they are so scripted, they are so careful not to say anything that might impact how they would have to rule on some matter before them in this case? >> you just do that all away he thought he was just talking to a friendly audience here and was surprised by the by the recording. >> but again he's gotten himself in trouble for a number of reasons now, just because he's not careful. >> yeah. marie, i do want to ask you about this

evidence suggests that will get worse if president trump puts more guys like clarence thomas and sam alitohey are coming after. if they will come after a woman's right to choose, they will come afterny they have talked about it already. the most important thing about this election -- thing different than anything that all of you have faced in your life -the vet because one candidate for the president of the united states does not believe in the idea of america. it is a simple idea -- the idea of democracy as equals. my you don't believe in that idea, you don't really believe in america. don't really trust america. don't really believe that our greatest superpower is a strength. you think it is a weakness. my friescription for disaster. make no mistake about it. president biden has done a great b in the world. one thing that he has done that nobody else in this country has done is stood in the breach and told donald trump no. you cannot use your power to abuse people. no, you cannot uour power to seek retribution and revenge. america.have i, joe biden, i'm going to you'y words. you can that

but she told lauren windsor, quote, i'm deferring to you, talking about sam alito. >> i think a lot of the timeline also are facts that really should be looked at more closely. justice alito sent a letter to congress and, you know, said that at least one of the flags was being flown in response to a dispute with a neighbor and the neighbor has come forward and said, well, look, that flag was being flown well before there was any dispute. so this should be investigated. we should be looking into this and we should be troubled. these words from mrs. alito, she is not a supreme court justice, but she lives with one. she should really think about spending less time flying flags and more time actually heeding what she claims to be her religion. she's a catholic. well, she should learn to maybe love thy neighbor and stop spewing this kind of hate. it's just so troubling to hear someone just have this kind of hate just for seeing someone flying a flag. it really tells you kind of where the level of our public discourse is in this country. >> it also tells you about the radicalization of the h

think this argument that if you do not elect joe biden, you are going to see one maybe two more sam alitos, more clarence thomass appointed to the court. it is an argument that biden really needs to make in the most full some way and it is really i think something that as melissa said, is so deeply s salient to voters. -- but i think that the kind of connective tissue hasn't always been there and that is the challenge not just in the debate tomorrow, but going into the summer and the election season. >> it is such a good point. dr. patel, we constantly ask why the generals are. i'll show you what trump has to say about this and where your colleagues are. let me show you this first. >> i was proudly the person responsible for the ending of something that all legal scholars both sides wanted and in fact demanded be ended. roe v. wade. >> i did something nobody thought was possible. i got rid of roe v. wade. and by doing that -- by doing that, it puts pro-lifers in a strong negotiating position. for 54 years they're trying to get roe v. wade terminated and i did it and i'm proud to have done

with two supreme court justices at the moment, with clarence thomas in terms of corruption and with sam alito it's conceivable they will rule that -- that people with domestic restraining orders have a constitutional right to firearms, so there are -- there are choices with this supreme court when you say has it gone too far? >> right, that's a great point. so we've got some other things going on. of course, there is a sentencing of the former president next month. i believe that's july 11. i would love to get some historical perspective on the first time a former president is convicted on felony convictions and also ask our legal panel a little bit about what to expect there, so we'll take a quick break, and we'll be right back with that. we'll be right back with that. ♪♪ hey! i'll give you $574 if you switch. for gerald? well, okay. so, what about $574 for switching your home insurance to allstate? oh, i try not to think about home insurance. too complicated. actually, allstate can handle the switching for you. —just call 'em. —it's that easy to save? yup. and you get allstate. huh, well th

reached the incredible conclusion t act like machine guns to fire bullets at almost the sam and in which, in judge alito's own admission did not show quote, any material difference unquote, with machine guns are somehow not machine guns which have been banned for a long time since the 30's. friday's ruling is yet another warning that this maga the deep end, aligning with the most extreme elements of the hard right. they have strict down freedom of choice, environmental protections protec safety and more. the maga supreme court is now even further to the right of donald trump, very hard right himself. so this week theen to try to fix the chaos the magaushed. as soon as tomorrow democrats will seek passage ofks and i urge my republican colleagues not to block senator heinrich when he comes to the floor. he's the author of the bill banning bump stocks and leading the charg to get it passed quickly. passing a bill stocks should be the work of five minutes. most america step. poll after poll show a majority of peoplets support restrictions on ar-15 style rifles which is what bump stocks are designed to emulate