luxury gifts from a republican megadonor. every since it was reported on his failure to disclose ak tepting tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and travel over decades, there have been renewed calls for investigating thomas and implementing stricter ethical rules for the justices who sit on the supreme court today, democratic members of the senate judiciary committee sent a letter to chief justice john roberts. writing this, quote, if the court does not resolve this issue on its own, the committee will consider legislation to resolve it which you do not need to wait for congress to act to undertake your own investigation into the reported conduct and to insure it cannot happen again. joining our conversation, amy klobuchar, a member of the senate judiciary committee thank you so much for taking
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for stricter ethics rules for supreme court justices following a report that shows justice clarence thomas accepted millions of dollars worth of luxury vacations over several decades from a republican megadonor. cbs s jan crawford reports supreme court justices are not necessarily covered by current ethics rules. reporter: the report by pro-public details luxury vacations taken by justice clarence thomas and his wife to be 23 around the world coming to indonesia, new zealand, closer to home, from california to georgia. the tag was covered by his longtime close friend, wealthy republican donor harlan crow. democrats who are pushing for investigations into ginni thomas political activities and efforts to overturn the 2020 election say thomas should have disclosed the travel as a gift. the highest court has the lowest standards. indeed, only the standards which each justice in his or her own,
what do you think is happening here? is there a message from democrats that is turning these voters away, again to adrienne spite other democrats not doing a great job with messaging. or is there a republican message that is resonating across the board? so one thing i think i want to point out alex is that among those earning 52,000 or less, there was 50%, 52% of those folks who voted for democrats. while there is a conversation among the different demographics and the working class categories, there is a large majority there that are still voting democrats right? i think moving forward, those need to still be the focus of the messaging of the democratic party. the republicans are going to try to start siphoning that off. we are going to start seeing a lot of that now, especially with many of the republican megadonor s trying one favored with ron desantis over trump because they realize that trump lost them obviously some major races and the 2022 midterms.
he figures in the evangelical moment are turning on trump as well, including one of his former campaign advisers who now says he is not ready to endorse him again. two republican megadonor s have already made it clear they will not back trump s third bid for the white house, saying they want the party to move on to a fresh face. trump clearly thought his campaign announcement would offer him some protection from all of the very, very intense legal peril he is in. there s been a lot of discussion on this idea. the department of justice might be wary of prosecuting him if he were officially a presidential candidate. is announcement clearly had an effect on attorney general merrick garland. just maybe not in the way trump hoped. instead, he now has a world-renowned prosecutor coming straight from the the hague prosecuting war criminals to determine his fate. carol lam and chuck rosenberg is a former u.s. attorney who just yesterday made the case against
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