financial relationship with justice thomas. now new reporting by propublica s paul keel uncovers crow used trips like thomas s to dodge his own tax burden. tax data obtained by propublica provides a glimpse of what congressional investigators will find if crow were to open his books to them. crow s voyages with thomas, the data shows, contributed to a nice side benefit. they helped reduce crow s tax bill. senate finance committee chair ron wyden telling propublica this, quote, these new details only raise more questions about mr. crow s tax practices, which could begin to explain why he s been stonewalling the finance committee s investigation for months. now, it customs as the senate judiciary committee which has also sought to compelling information from harlan crow plans to consider legislation this week to establish a new code of ethics for supreme court justices. let s bring in the aforementioned propublica reporter paul kiehl.
please send money here. at this point we don t know if the former president will be charged with anything and it is unclear how much work the grand jury still has left, but based on all the things we re seeing if this was any other defendant we would say, wow, it appears likely that you could very well be charged. paula reid, great to see you here. while we re waiting we get you here in new york. that s a win for us. there is a side benefit. thanks, paula. turning to another trump investigation in georgia, fulton county officials are probing trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. now the former president s lawyers are asking to throw out the grand jury report and all the witness testimony that was gathered over those months. this comes as we learn that the da handling the investigation is considering racketeering and conspiracy charges. sara murray has been covering the story from the very beginning. sara, what s the reasoning from the trump legal team about why the
for people seeking asylum here in the u.s. or people in the process, how would this address this massive backlog? well, it is not a bill primarily to address the backlog. it is primarily to address the rule of law. right now immigration judges are appointed by the department of justice. and their decisions, they set in a courtroom, they see the facts, they make a decision and that can be overturned administratively by someone who has not even looked at the facts. it is not really what we think of when we think of a court. so this has been an issue for many years. we had a hearing a number of years ago, i chaired the immigration subcommittee, we had a hearing just a few weeks ago and it is not it is not independent, it is not fair. it is not orderly. and we want to bring the rule of law. now, as a side benefit, this may
of it, there s a certain cleverness to what they are doing because if this becomes a referendum and a debate over voter i.d., the fact is, the majority of voters support voter i.d. people don t see that as anti-democratic, even large numbers of minority voters support voter i.d. but the other track is that this is happening specifically to advance the big lie, to continue the myth that there was something deeply wrong with the election. so, when you ask the question, why is this being done? is it being done for the specific changes and tweaks to hold down the turnout? maybe that s a side benefit. but i think it s this larger drum beat to convince people that the election, in fact, was fraudulent when, in fact, the evidence is overwhelming that it s not. this is a way of keeping that big lie alive, and you were right, you re seeing this all over the country. i was just reading a letter from
said it s a win win for everybody. clean energy is good news for anywhere in the world but here it s simply a side benefit. so energy in lebanon is not about getting cleaner but about having any energy at all. let s return to our top story, one year war in ethiopia. and we can bring in democratic congressman brad sherman, who sits on the house foreign affairs committee, and has been following events in ethiopia closely. you have been speaking out about the unfolding humanitarian crisis, how concerned are you tonight about the intensifying fighting? this concerned are you tonight about the intensifying fighting? intensifying fighting? this is the one- ear intensifying fighting? this is the one-year anniversary intensifying fighting? this is the one-year anniversary of - intensifying fighting? this is the one-year anniversary of an - intensifying fighting? this is the - one-year anniversary of an unfolding one year anniversary of an unfolding tragedy. the ap now reports that