the rachel maddow show starts right now. thank you very much, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i m jumping the gun because this has just been a heck of a day in the news. the united states supreme court for the first time ever has issued an ethics code for supreme court justices, first time, first time in our history. and honestly, we have had some terrible supreme court justices in our history. it s not like everyone before this was good, so we didn t need rules. no, we had a justice resign ahead of being probably impeached for alleged bribery. we had a supreme court justice revealed to have been in the kkk just a few weeks after he got confirmed to the court. we had a justice who was so anti-semitic he reportedly would not speak to one of his colleagues. he would not speak to justice brandeis for years because justice brandeis was jewish. that guy was such a thorough going jerk that when he died, not a single one of the other supreme court ju
supreme court justices. first time in urhistory. it s not like everyone before this was good so we didn t need rules. no, we had a justice resign ahead of being probably impeached for alleged bribery.ei we had a supreme court justice revealed to have been in the kkk just a few weeks after he got confirmed to the court. we had a justice who was so anti-semitic he reportedly would not speak to one of his colleagues. he would not speak to justice brandeis for years because justice brandeis was jewish. that guy was such a thorough going jerk that when he died, s not a single one of the other t supreme court justices even bothered to go to his funeral. we have had some bad ones, i tell you. but we have never before had a whole wing of the court that has produced corruption scandal after corruption scandal after r corruption scandal. and not like esoteric legalese versions of corruption that are hard to understand.de things like buy me an rv, buy my mom a house. those kinds of fina