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
The problem. i mean, fundamentally, this is one third of the america federal government one of the three branches an american people absolutely hav a right to know if nine of the most powerful judges in th country, the nine most powerfu judges in the country, not the most powerful people in th country, have financial ties in the past, ongoing, like a guy who is your mother s landlord that could cause, a the very least, the appearance of a conflict of interest. right now, the justice regulate themselves, when it comes to ethics. nice word, if you can get it even though, you know, judge being bribed is one of the like, central canonical acts o corruption that you look up fo a corrupt state. happens all throughout history all around the world, all th time, right? you don t want judges to get bribed people tried to bribe them all the time and in corrup societies, corrupt governments they do get bribe. so, there is a reason to b vigilant and it s perfectly legitimate, as an oversight undert
So, there is a reason to b vigilant and it s perfectly legitimate, as an oversight undertaking, for one of the other branche of government to make sure tha their vigilant on this that, of course, is why th senate judiciary committee wants to hear from chief justice john roberts last week, committee chair dic durbin said justice roberts letter requesting either his testimony or the testimony of fellow justice quote, there s ample precedent for sitting justices of th supreme court to testify befor congress, including regardin ethics he is right. back in 2011, then justice stephen breyer and anthony scalia, you see them there testified before the senat judiciary committee on the rol of the court in american life, including the questions of