which he spoke at a press conference today. have a watch. not everything in washington d. c. has to be left versus right. not everything here has to be a controversy. there are some things that public officials do that are so out of bounds that, if we don t join together and condemn it, if we don t join together and make sure that it is seen as outside of the norm, democracy itself falls. and senator chris murphy joins me now. senator, thanks for coming on the show. you just heard ted cruz called criticism of justice clarence thomas a high tech lynching. today, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said that democrats want everyone to be outrageous because justice thomas takes vacations with his friends, or because justice roberts his wife has a career. what is your response to that? are we overreacting? i mean, this is not some childhood friend of justice thomas. this is not a college buddy. this is a relationship that is
if we don t join together and make sure that it is seen as outside of the norm, democracy itself falls. and senator chris murphy joins me now. senator, thanks for coming on the show. you just heard ted cruz called criticism of justice clarence thomas a high tech lynching. today, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said that democrats want everyone to be outrageous because justice thomas takes vacations with his friends, or because justice roberts his wife has a career. what is your response to that? are we overreacting? i mean, this is not some childhood friend of justice thomas. this is not a college buddy. this is a relationship that is rooted in his role as a decision-maker, and harlan crow he has very assiduously been courting justice thomas because harlan crow has lots of cases before the supreme court. he funds groups that appear regularly book for the court and justice and feel like a coincidence that every time
donation for his conservative dark money group that used to be the largest political contribution ever made through connections he made through the federalist society. and that kind of sounds like political activity to me. but even after hearing all of that, republicans on the senate judiciary committee still resisted any move to bring in basic ethics requirements for the justices. in the last month, some not all but some democrats and their media allies have hyped up attempted hit pieces on every republican appointed supreme court justice except for one. this attempt to delegitimized the court, this attempt to personally smear clarence thomas, is dishonest. and everyone in the media echoing it is participating in a shameful reprise of 1991 s high tech lynching. this is an unseemly effort
the justices. in the last month, some not all but some democrats and their media allies have hyped up attempted hit pieces on every republican appointed supreme court justice except for one. this attempt to delegitimized the court, this attempt to personally smear clarence thomas, is dishonest. and everyone in the media echoing it is participating in a shameful reprise of 1991 s high tech lynching. this is an unseemly effort by the democratic left to destroy the legitimacy of the roberts court. if lindsey graham is really worried about destroying the legitimacy of the roberts court, he should take it up with the roberts court, especially with the conservative justices, who are doing just that. and when you hear republicans protesting that much to something as simple as basic as obvious, as ethics guidelines, for judges, you can t help but ask the question, what else are they hiding? senator chris murphy, a democrat from connecticut, has introduced ethics reform legislat
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sparred Tuesday during a hearing over Supreme Court ethics reform proposals, with Republican members rushing to defend Justice Clarence Thomas amid concerns raised by Democrats over his undisclosed gifts and real estate sale.