everything he can to enhance the reputation, respect for the court, won t step forward and have a code of conduct that applies to those 850 other circuit and appellate judges. i want to bring another story to your attention because it just was published just before we came on the air. it s a story about leonard leo. i don t know if we have the photo back from up in the script, the amazing painting. if there s any way to put that on the screen right now. but leonard leo is also in that painting. he s notoriously the sort of mastermind behind the entire federal society judicial network that vets judges and put some on the court. we have a society about him correcting kellyanne conway, about ten years ago, there he is on the left, right next to shorts guy. him directing kellyanne conway to give ginni thomas $25,000 in payment through a nonprofit he was not on the board of. and he emphasized the paperwork should have no mention of ginni, of course.
850 judges at the district court and the appellate court level in the federal judiciary. all of them would ve had to report every single one of those gifts, except for nine. and those nine happened to be on the united states supreme court. so, i m mystified that the chief justice, who has the custodial responsibility to do everything he can to enhance the reputation, respect for the court, won t step forward and have a code of conduct that applies to those 850 other circuit and appellate judges. i want to bring another story to your attention because it just was published just before we came on the air. it s a story about leonard leo. i don t know if we have the photo back from up in the script, the amazing painting. if there s any way to put that on the screen right now. but leonard leo is also in that painting. he s notoriously the sort of
obstruction charge is facing a federal appellate appeal for a lot of these defendants, and the future of that charge is a bill up in the air because that was a law that sort of grew out of the aftermath of the scandal that s now being applied to this obstruction of an official proceeding in terms of a congressional proceeding. it s a bit of an experimentation they have been doing here in order to hold the defendants accountable for their actions on january 6th. assaulting officers might be one of those charges that s easier to reach a conclusion on, and we know they haven t reached a conclusion on some or at least one of these charges. your thoughts that this judge is going to make the jury go back and continue deliberations and not letting them off the hook? and that s rule 31, which themselves are kind of
a company which sold the property and the guyd who bought it has never spoken to or even met gorsuch. joining me now, chris landauer, former law clerk to justices scalia and thomas and a top appellate litigator. he was also a former us ambassador to mexico in the trump administration. formchris , what s going on hero you and i , when we werewere clerking, we didn t hear this type of stuff. the scuttlebutt this wasn tis even scuttt even in the atmosph. but this seems to be picking up. why? he l i think you nailed it, laura . the supreme court is onerol in institution the left does not te control in our country today. and i think they don t see that institution coming within their control anytime soon. so instead of just taking the on the court on the merits, which the court, like any otherl institution, is certainly subject to public debate, but they don t go that routeth insteaatd, they are seizing on these kind of attacks to tryt to delegitimize the courthese
appellate lawyer. in this case, bob dudek. in my 22 or 23 years of being an appellate defense attorney, rick gagnon was one of only about two, possibly three people that i genuinely believed was innocent. that certainty would mean exactly nothing to an appeals judge. unless bob and rick could come up with new evidence. then, in 2009, a year after his verdict, rick had an encounter in prison with yet another inmate. and it was all excited about something. authorities in tennessee, the prisoner told rick, had just arrested someone for a home invasion there. he told me he said they identified the killer. that man s name was bruce hill. when fact tennessee authorities ran his dna through the database, they had a match to the mystery blood found at the