ethics scandals. is this politics? it s tuesday, i m bill hemmer. good morning. dana: it s tuesday and politics. any day is politics. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. what s going on? the supreme court is facing renewed criticism over reports of justices failing to disclose what democrats say are questionable financial transactions. that includes justice clarence thomas accepting vacations from a wealthy donor and justice neil gore the democrats see the court needs more oversight. but should not have to answer to congress. dana: chief justice roberts submitted a letter saying that the court has reaffirmed a voluntary commitment to keep things above board. bill: democrats say it s not enough. republicans maintain sit a power grab designed to rein in a conservative majority on the court today. dana: if you ve been following this. the organization the news organization that first put out these reports about clarence tomorrow as. if you want to get th
presidential campaign sure was good while it lasted, and now he s getting buried a couple of months before he even announces. so trump turbo-charged by his indictment in the stormy daniels case has been rising in the polls, and desantis has been sinking. i ve argued for many weeks now against my guests that desantis needed to respond to trump s assaults rather than largely ignore him because he s busy with the florida legislature. now that s becoming the media s conventional wisdom. throw in the journalists who say ron desantis lacks charisma, and you have a whole new landscape at least for this week. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: when it comes to ron desantis taking knack over his war on disney flak over his war on disney, it comes from the left and the right. governor desantis is trying to stop bleeding on what s left of his unofficial presidential campaign. it s going to start to wilt a little bit. you just see he s got no answers, he s got no
open to an alternative in 204 with 14% saying they d support kennedy for the democratic nomination while a new harris poll finds that 63% of voters think the president would not be able to finish a second term if he was reelected and that vice president kamala harris would wind up taking over at some point. let s bring in wall street journal columnists dan henninger and kim strassel. so, dan, what do you think of joe biden s decision to run for a second term? i think that if in terms of the good of the country, it s a big mistake. for sure. in terms of joe biden s apparently boundless ambitions, if he thinks donald trump is going to be the opposition, he believes he can beat trump. paul: you think that s the main motivation for biden at this stage, beat trump? well, no. i think the main motivation is he likes to be president [laughter] paul: okay. air force one, all the rest of it. [laughter] his entire career was dedicated to this spot, and it s tough to give it up
Insurrection clause which bars officers of the United States who stage Instructional Rebellion from serving again. Democratic congressman adam schiff this week. The 14th amendment section 3 is pretty clear, if you engage in rebellion against the government, or give pain and comfort to those who do, you are disqualified from running. Doesnt require you be convicted of insurrection. It just requires you have engaged in these acts. Its a disqualification from Holding Office again and fits donald trump to a t. Paul joining me is the former Attorney General of the United States, general casey. You wrote about the 14th amendment issue arguing there are problems with the argument one of which is the president may not be an officer under the definition of that amendment. There are three steps to take under the 14th amendment under the 14th amendment. One is the step that he cant serve, he cant serve as senator in the House Of Representatives or an elector, need someone in the electoral college
conservative majority on the court today. dana: if you ve been following this. the organization the news organization that first put out these reports about clarence tomorrow as. if you want to get the truth about it all there is excellent reporting by the wall street journal editorial opinion page editors james toronto on the clarence thomas piece. the wall street journal editorial today is the ethics assault on the supreme court. democrats want to gain more political control over the justices and you know how the democrats say they are so worried about the trust in our associations being undermined. the point of today s hearing is to say the justices thomas and gorsuch are undermining the trust in the court because of this. however, i would argue that they re forgetting first of all the court is an equal branch of government and the justice was correct to decline to testify today. bill: we did polling recently back in the third week of april asking the american people how