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
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
on a for this to resign from the supreme court. let me repeat that democrats and republicans. they called for abe fortas t resign from the supreme court, both parties and believed in imposing the same ethica standards of the supreme court no matter which party wa involved and one party had a tremendous amount to gain by a for this s resignation. a fordyce was appointed to the court by democrat president, lyndon johnson, and when h resigned, republican richard nixon was president of the united states. and a board his resignatio enabled richard nixon to remak the supreme court from a liberal leaning supreme court, to a conservative leanin supreme court. the democrats called on a boar is to resign from the suprem court and knew that th republican, richard nixon that would get to replace him, bu they still demanded hi resignation. this guy was the first democratic senator to demand a
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 later and decided to end the arrangement and then later h returned to the foundation the $20,000. that is it, that is the whol story and his resignatio letter justice for the said have not interceded or taken part in any lega administrative or judicial matter affecting mr. wilson or anyone associated with him and no one has ever suggeste that a before this integrity was ever compromised on an vote that he ever cast on th supreme court. that was the entire controversy, it s $20,000 which was perfectly legal to do at the time, to a foundation of someone who later found himsel in serious legal trouble and a board is immediately packed ou of the agreement, return t $20,000. that is the whole story. and while that story came out, and 1969, democrats an republicans immediately called on a for this to resign from the supreme court. let me repe