tonight justin pierson on his historic expulsion and the anti democratic republican movement in tennessee an beyond and private jet, super yachts, and the every man facade of th supreme court justices there is something normal about it i come from regular stop clarence thomas responds to explosive reporting on the secret gifts that he has bee receiving from a republica maga donor when you, somebody is flyin you around the world and takin you around on their super fanc boots, you are indebted to them. all in starts right now good evening from new york, am chris hayes we have breaking news this evening. we just received a shocking if not unexpected audacious, to m mind lawless reeling from federal judge in texas appointed by donald trump. undoing the fda s 23 year ol approval of one of the two drugs commonly used in medication abortion. this pill has been safely used by millions of people across the country for decades, i a sure that people watching this program right
you also have the broade ethical question of what is th broader code of conduct for th justices and who is regulating so all judges other than th supreme court have a code of conduct that requires them t avoid even the pure incident propriety. technically the supreme cour does not have one. because they run the federa judiciary. they run the federa judiciary they get to pleas themselves and i think that it is a route in my opinion, probably th root issue here is not the supreme court has very littl transparency and very little oversight compared to virtuall every other member of th federal government is there any evidence, an again it is hard to report o the negative, but that this is not just a one-off, that there is a lot of justices across th ideological spectrum spending lot of time with a lot o billionaires super yachts?
i think that it is wort noting that thomas didn respond to, i think what has been for many people, th largest concern about this which is a broader ethical concerns not the specifics of the disclosure law we talked to current and forme federal judges who say tha this broke long-standing norms for judges conduct, and it onc said that it is on incomprehensible that someon would do this. judges sit in a unique positio of public trust and you ar supposed to hold themselves to the highest standard i just want to say as a journalist you can never d this like that would be wildly, wildly inappropriate for like, a reporter at i mean, for me, i would neve do anything like this. also, i want to dig into cro here they keep saying he has no business in the florida court. it is true, if he gets in lawsuit with his neighbor, it not going to scotus. but he has been on the board o the american enterpris
tonight justin pierson on his historic expulsion and the anti democratic republican movement in tennessee an beyond and private jet, super yachts, and the every man facade of th supreme court justices there is something normal about it i come from regular stop clarence thomas responds to explosive reporting on the secret gifts that he has bee receiving from a republica maga donor when you, somebody is flyin you around the world and takin you around on their super fanc boots, you are indebted to them. all in starts right now good evening from new york, am chris hayes we have breaking news this evening. we just received a shocking if not unexpected audacious, to m mind lawless reeling from federal judge in texas appointed by donald trump. undoing the fda s 23 year ol
nashville s metro council. it is like their city council. a newly an active law passed i retaliation because, ready for this the council refused to host th 2024 republican national convention the new state law will cut the council in half. you wouldn t take the rnc, and this is not just happening i tennessee. state after state, republicans are combining their perfectl democratic legitimate strength in rural areas where they are very good at getting elected with the illegitimate practice of aggressive partisan gerrymandering, and extremel aggressive tactics to lock i their hold on power. they are doing it even in th face of statewide opposition i mean, look at wisconsin fo republicans rigging the wors gerrymander in the country las year this week, the liberal candidate overwhelmingly won a seat on the supreme court. the very same court that approved those new gerrymandering masks, which no might be reversed. in north carolina, republicans are now holding veto proof super majority in bot