i think this is an activist court. getting rid of roe v wade was an incredible thing for pro-life. simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for questioning the legitimacy of the court. is the u.s. senate confirmation process to blame for polarizing the entire judicial branch? what you want to do is destroy this guy s life, hold this seat open and hope you win in 2020. donald trump, mitch mcconnell and their republican buddies are shoving aside the wishes of the american people in order to steal the supreme court seat. is the court now out of sync with the american public? a court that s already pretty illegitimate is going to be in full crisis mode. and now new questions of ethical standards. have the justices damaged the court s reputation further by failing to disclose financial relationships and gifts from wealthy donors? the perception of the american people is important to me. the highest court in the land should not have the lo
let me put up these headlines. these are the perception of the court is just being politicized here with a big donor. we ve got these headline clarence thomas failed to report his wife s income, clarence thomas s wife ginni tells the january 6th committee she didn t discuss the election with her husband. i don t know what married couple didn t discuss the election. apparently they re the only ones that didn t. [ laughter ] judicial activist directed fees to clarence thomas, wife mentioned. what, in theory, could chief justice roberts do to create a better ethical picture of the court? part of the problem here is, as joan said, he doesn t have a team with him and you don t need to lose much. so let s just say he were to sit down and say, look, we ve got to do something. let s do what a lot of the ethics professors say they could do in a half of a day, write a code for ourselves. if two of his members say, well, i m not going to abide by it; i don t think we ought to have