trip ahead for you just one lawmaker who joined protesters demanding meaningful gun legislation at the state capital kept her seat yesterday. representative gloria johnson, a white woman, slammed the expulsion of her colleagues justin jones and justin pearson, two of the state s youngest black lawmakers, saying she was the only one to be spared was quote, pretty clear. outrage over the pair s removal is being felt across the country, coupled with the concern of the dangerous precedent this is sending. and a short time ago, tennessee s black caucus whose chairman called the decision an assault on democracy that quote, smacks of overt racism spoke out. it looked like a jim crow era trial, where we saw two black men fighting for their careers, fighting for their reputations. the world is watching tennessee, and yet again, they re watching it for the wrong reasons. quite frankly, i m kpexhausted. what are we going to do now is it going to be business as usual, it happened t
president s, convicted felon s rants about sharks, electric boats, rather he would be electrocuted or eaten by a shark have everybody talking about his state of minds. at that moment, a merchant of right wing talking points and sometimes even disinformation is going into overdrive with calculated and relentless regional attacks on president joe biden. statements by donald trump on the other hand so unhinged. fox news didn t carry them or broadcast them. didn t air them after the fact. in the words of stephen king that speech was like listening to your senile uncle after he has that third drink. that performance and others like it or reviving questions about trump s stability, mental acuity, questions trump loves to talk about. watch. the next day they ll say he s crazy. the next day they ll say he s incompetent. this is one of the dumbest human beings ever. that wasn t working. i didn t like that one as much. that was bad. i said what do you think about a cognitive test
multimillionaire megadonor would have been interested in clarence tom a the commissioner of the eeoc, or a lowly staffer to john danforth of missouri they became friends at a moment in which clarence thomas was at the height of his career at the highest court in the land. even if it is entirely coincidental, the point of the ethics disclosures is not necessarily to actually identify episodes of corruption, although that s certainly part of it, it s to minimize the appearance of impropriety, and what we have here, whether or not there is actual corruption underlying it, is broadly, the appearance of impropriety. a sitting justice going for lavish trips at the expense of this multimillionaire mega donor to republican causes, causes that are repeatedly before the supreme court. so the idea that harlan crow doesn t have business before the court, that s one thing, but he funds a number of causes that
brier, ruth bader ginsburg, sonja sotomayor, elena kagan, and the key deciding justice anthony kennedy. the four discenters, antonin scalia, alito, clarence tom a, and the chief justice, john roberts. let s get reaction. eric schneiderman is joining us, the new york state attorney general, also joining us is kerry, the chief policy director of the judicial crisis network. attorney general, what s your reaction? great decision, completely consistent with lots of supreme court rulings holding that marriage is a fundamental right. it s good that they went this far. i think it makes look, for edith windsor, who is a new yorker, who was with her partner for over 40 years and has fought this through, congratulations to her. this is about equality. and this means that marriages of people in my state, new york, and all over america, between same-sex couples, will be treated equally under 1,100 provisions of federal law that use the term marriage or
benefits. that s the key question. here for the defense of marriage act. and we should know momentarily what the justices have decided. john foreman is taking a closer look at the defense of marriage act as well. tom? wolf, right now, about 300 people are inside the chambers there. we can t take you there with any live cameras, but we can virtually set the scene. they re listening to what the justices are saying about this, just at last march they listened to the justices discuss this. justice roberts had a concern about the very then john king mentioned, the obama administration. he pointed out he would not defend it in court because it s unconstitutional, but they enforced it as the law. he said, i don t see why he doesn t have the courage of his convictions. she said congress decided to reflect collective moral judgment and disapproval of