i would like to keep that friendship. the massive ethics scandal unfolding at the supreme court as clarence thomas copps to the luxury chips he took with his billionaire buddy. tonight, the amendments to his financial disclosures, the reporting that led to it, and the ongoing issues with justice thomas. it really is good to be me, it really is. that is his former chief of staff gets arraigned on charges of trying to steal the election. trump takes his vengeance towards dr. phil. well, revenge does take time, i will say that. and sometimes revenge can be justified, but i have to be honest, sometimes it can t. plus, new data on just where americans are getting misinformed about immigration. and another huge day for the biden jobs market. 272,000, everybody, the estimate was 185,000. and, by the way, that blows even the top of the range from economists going on. all in starts right now. it evening from new york, i am chris hayes. we are currently in the midst
Like this rock the court before. it is not totally unprecedented. would supreme court justice abe fordyce. it was a long time ago, we might not remember. he was appointed to the court by old bj in 1965 and he did not last long. today and fordyce was the first supreme court justice in american history to resign under attack. he insisted he had done nothing wrong, and there was no public evidence he had violated any law. but the criticism of his private financial dealings was so intense he sent president nixon a letter of resignation, and the president accepted it in a curt reply of just one sentence, 16 words. he admitted to a deal with the foundation set up by lewis wilson, a stock manipulator who is now in jail. the deal was to pay $25,000 a year for life, then to pay it to his wife if he died. he was friends with that jailed stock manipulator, this was the family foundation. at $20,000 a year was about