weapons of death also tonight, michael cohen joins me to talk about what weaponization of government really looks like. as jim jordan plays make believe on the issue in an embarrassing field hearing of the once respected house judiciary committee. plus, justice clarence thomas is promising to fix his financial irregularities as a whole new set of questions come to light and we begin tonight with more young americans fighting for their lives at this country s massacre epidemic rages on following a spate otmass shootings less than three weeks since the children of nashville were buried, this is a feeling of an accelerating gun culture and the carnage and death that comes with it. the fear, the violence, they can feel unstoppable, even all consuming at times and it isn t just because of america s indifference to gun violence it feels like parts of this country are engaged in a celebration of gun violence. a veneration and devotion that has turned america into the most heav
it follows propublica s reporting about a questional real estate deal with his billionaire right wing benefactor harlen crow who revealed crow purchased his mother s house in 2014 along with two other properties owned by thomas, which thomas did not disclose he intends to amend the disclosures to disclose to deal, where his mother lives rent free it seems to be a recurring theme that simple financial disclosure forms are too difficult for thomas when he amended his forms in 2011 when he hadn t reported $690,000 in his wife s income, he claimed it was a misunderstanding of the filing instructions after propublica divulged the extent of his vacations on his
anything the thing that needs to happen right now is for thomas to hav some dignity and resign. he s basically right now sayin that he is the supreme court justice who is able to tell fo certain, what you can do wit your body and uterus, whethe thomas pulls out the wee g board, can tell whether thomas jefferson wanted you to have a ar-15. he can t fill out a form you can follow financial disclosure form. we shouldn t come to st. john and learn some actual law if h was sitting here saying he can t fill out a form. there s a deeper level o parker see here, joy the law professor reminded m of this today. last term, justice thomas rule against a death row inmate who wanted to bring up evidence of his actual innocence the defense attorney at th time did not bring it up, an thomas said that because he di not bring up the innocence a trial, that the inmate could not use it now even though there is evidenc of his actual innocence, tha man is still sentenced to deat