republicans expelled to blac to democrats for protesting gu deaths as the texas governor promises to pardon the man o killing a black live protester. plus, a member of the centra part exonerated on crimina defendant donald trump and a closer look at the gop - providing three of trips t supreme court justice clarence thomas and his nazi artifact collection if you ve been watching this show since we launched over tw years ago, you know the core enterprise of this program has been to sound the alarm on the threats to american democracy. and to underscore had the gran old republican party constitutes the greatest threa of all this week, we ve got fou stories illustrate exactly that, indeed, we are sadly spoiled for choice let s start in tennessee where it man accused of molestin multiple young girls was ouste from the state legislature wait, no he wasn t back in 2019, after thos allegations came to light, the republican s the point to lead the education subcommittee this week, th
everything that s wrong with the supreme court in one story this is a story abou corruption, obviously. might not be a quid pro qu situation, i think that they probably generally agree o most ideological issues, but this is still highly corrupt it s a network of very wealthy right-wing donors that wine an dine with supreme cour justices, donate money to ge these guys confirmed in th first place. somebody, we still don t kno who, spent $27 million to ge neil worse confirmed to th supreme court. we don t know who did it because for one, the supreme court does not have to follo an ethics code like the rest o the federal judiciary does and two, dark money will influence the outcome of a supreme court nomination without any of us knowing who behind it. here we have clarence thomas off of this scandal he didn