towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo of those times you could never publicly kerrigan and i have a history professor who s goin to join us at the end of the show who revealed all of tha to me today. i am just so shocked, that those cowboy movies were, in some ways, inaccurat apparently it is a good reminder to al the originalist who wants to basically, rewind time back to the 1718 hundreds, that they may not have liked the gun laws. and nobody was questioning, nobody was saying that s un-american, that unconstitutional, everybod just went along with what it was. irony deep irony, lawrence those were the days thank you alex, - thanks lawrence a federal courts of appeals has agreed to hear attorne alvin bragg s appeal a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary comm
zero public consequences until today, when he was asked about it publicly. representative scotty campbell handed in his resignatio today. that does it for us, we ll see you again tomorrow now it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell, goo evening, lawrence. good evening, alex, i learn something today about what w call the wild west the old wil west that there was way more contro in the wild west, in those towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo a federal courts o appeals has agreed to hear attorney alvin bragg s appeal. a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary committee in accordance with a subpoena issued by the chairman republican, jim jordan we report on that case her last night, the appeals cour has given alvin bragg unti tomorrow to file his appeals briefing
adopt the code of conduct as it s definitive source o ethical guidance clarence thomas has now give the court every reason to adop the code of ethics, which th supreme court absolutely continues to refuse to adopt one of chief justice s principal reasons for why th supreme court doesn t need any ethical rules whatsoever was this line written in his 201 report the justices file the same financial disclosure report as other federal judges those reports disclose, amon other things, the justices non governmental income, investments, liabilities, gifts, and reimbursements from thir parties. yes, the justices file financial disclosure reports yes, clarence thomas files financial disclosure reports that are not true. justice thomas refuses t include information that i required, by law, to b included like the sale of real estate
laws about justices disclosing anything about their income. he told the story of the $20,000 in his detaile resignation letter in january 1966 i receive check for $20,000 under th agreement and began my association with the foundatio later in june 1966 i reached decision that the continuing role in the foundations work which agreement contemplated should be terminated there are two reasons for this decision my work for the court was much heavier than i had anticipated i had also learned, shortl before informing the foundatio of my decision to terminatin remit that the scc had referred, mr. wilson s file to the department of justice fo consideration is to criminal prosecution. much more wilson, was th founder of the foundation that paid a force $20,000 so, justice fortas received th 20,000 dollar check six months
repeated ethical failures an violations of law and th supreme court s general ethica failures as the chairman of th senate committee wrote a lette of invitation to chief justice john roberts today, and bite him to testify the public area regarding the ethical rule that govern the justices of th supreme court. and potential reforms to those rules. the last time john roberts revealed any of his thinking about the subject was in writing 12 years ago chief justice roberts has been absolutely silent during a period when the ethica standards of the supreme court have been publicly questioned, more vigorously, then at any point the supreme court history. on the last day of 2011, the chief justice issued his annua year and report of the federal judiciary and included a few lines about ethical standards. which may have seemed no unreasonable at the time, bu through the lens tha investigative reporting ha given us on clarence thomas no