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
Senator, perhaps i took more offense to this letter than should ve. maybe i got too worked up abou it how did you receive the letter from the chief justice replyin to your committee s invitation to testify well, two things stood out. the first was he felt oblige to attach a document to hi letter it was a five page, i would say, memorandum about judicia ethics that all nine justice and apparently had signed, a if that was going to solve the problem. and what was noticeable abou that, one, clearly they ar feeling some real pressure i they feel they have to put a addendum like that on to the letter, to tell the world, w take ethics seriously, and the unbelievably, the actual gap i their ethics is not that there is no ethics code. there is a judicial code o ethics not like there aren t statutes
Ethics that all nine justice and apparently had signed, a if that was going to solve the problem. and what was noticeable abou that, one, clearly they ar feeling some real pressure i they feel they have to put a addendum like that on to the letter, to tell the world, w take ethics seriously, and the unbelievably, the actual gap i their ethics is not that there is no ethics code. there is a judicial code o ethics not like there aren t statutes there are statutes it s the dammed no process for investigating or enforcing the code and the statutes, as to themselves they don t even mention that problem, let alone cure it i all the pages of their memorandum so, i mean, that s kind of sen the associate back legal work, coming from the chief justices of the supreme court that also seems to me there is a kind of deeper principle, to deeper principles one is a principle that is a cornerstone of the - american legal tradition, whic no man can be a judge in his own case that has been cited, if i