between his spouse and conservative viewpoints an telling lies to the american public tonight, former fox anchor, gretchen carlson, on what need to happen for change at he former network plus, another shady real estat deal at the supreme court, a the chief justice dismisse calls for oversight. then, riveting testimony fro the woman accusing donald trum of rape. but we learn from each - date on the witness stand. and congresswoman katie porter on the maga vote to slas funding for medicaid veteran childcare, and more. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. tonight, the supreme court o the united states is under a cloud of scandal it all started earlier thi month with republican feel tha conservative justice, clarence thomas, was acceptin undisclosed gifts from right wing billionaire thomas accepted gifts includin luxury vacations worth literally hundreds of thousand of dollars, and this really, truly special painting from man named karlyn crow
conservative viewpoints an telling lies to the american public tonight, former fox anchor, gretchen carlson, on what need to happen for change at he former network plus, another shady real estat deal at the supreme court, a the chief justice dismisse calls for oversight. then, riveting testimony fro the woman accusing donald trum of rape. but we learn from each - date on the witness stand. and congresswoman katie porter on the maga vote to slas funding for medicaid, veterans childcare, and more. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. tonight, the supreme court o the united states is under a cloud of scandal it all started earlier thi month with republican feel tha conservative justice, clarence thomas, was acceptin undisclosed gifts from right wing billionaire thomas accepted gifts includin luxury vacations worth literally hundreds of thousand of dollars, and this really, truly special painting from man named harlan crow, who has well, inter
Every other official in th federal government, all of the other judges who wear robes in the federal judge federa judiciary. nobody enjoys that kind of impunity and this is not som recent rule, even be a judge i your own case. it s so old, it s in latin [speaking non-english] this goes way back this is a core principle o justice that they are just slouching. there is also a question of the remedy and what it would mean, constitutionally, right? you have, i think, a judicia ethics bill that you ve writte that what attempt to address some of this, right? yes if i m not mistaken, yo know, when you hear that scali sound where he talks about the independence of the judiciary, there s a little preamble in chief justices letter, if recall correctly, where he sor of says the same thing, whic seems to imply a kind of constitutional hardball, which is, as a constitutional matter we are independent, and yo can t regulate our ethics.
We judge whether we violated ethics, which is, again, nic work if you can get it i m sure everyone would like that set up. but that seems insufficient on its face indefensible, i think actually, when you look at every other official in th federal government, all of the other judges who wear robes in the federal judge federa judiciary. nobody enjoys that kind of impunity and this is not som recent rule, even be a judge i your own case. it s so old, it s in latin [speaking non-english] this goes way back this is a core principle o justice that they are just slouching. there is also a question of the remedy and what it would mean, constitutionally, right? you have, i think, a judicia ethics bill that you ve writte that what attempt to address some of this, right?