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You want that institution to have when you have justice thomas saying it was totally fine for me not to disclose this information. and then he writes a decision like the one on affirmative action. it is -- its so, to me, ironic that you have justice roberts complaining about people den grading the supreme court, when he cannot clean up his own house. he wont even go to congress to talk about the issue of should there be ethics rules. you know, supreme court justices should comply with ethics rul...

The high court has not launched an investigation into claims of ethics violations against Justice Thomas, lawmakers said in a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts.

Opportunity to write some ethics rules for themselves. and thats what the chief justice has said. we can do it ourselves. i see no action being taken there. but nonetheless, thats what theyve said. i give credit to senator whitehouse with the majority in the senate, he is able, in his committee, to point out what needs to be done, to have integrity. integrity on the court. its shameful how justice thomas and justice alito have been so cavalier about their violations of what would be expected of ...

I have spoken to mr. singer, i know more than a handful occasions, all of which was a small talk during the fishing trip, consisted of brief and casual comments on events attended by large groups. on no occasions have we discussed his businesses and have not talked about any case or issue before the supreme court. the reason hes trying to rebut this is, first of all, there are all sorts of ethics rules about -- or first of all, as you know, the supreme court doesnt formally abide by these, but t...

What alito didnt cite in his op-ed was any language from the disclosure law or the ethics rules. the disclosure law and the ethics rule both write about how you can take lodging, food and entertainment from people and dont have to disclose that, but its clear that that doesnt include private jet travel. ethics experts have never excluded that. thats always been something that should be disclosed. youre right, were not really disputing the facts. theres no affirmative defense of this behavior. >>...

A City Council member for the City of Lansing is accused of taking favors in exchange for his vote of support.

Americans to understand the full complexity of american democracy, and how its a crisis in this moment with fundamental freedoms being taken away. >> i want to get into more detail about expanding the court and the ethics rules that you would like to see impose their on another night when we have more time in the program to do so. this is such a worthy and important subject. alexis mcgill johnson, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> coming up, joe bidens re...

Faces a federal ethics investigation. nbcs ken dilanian has been following this for us. tell us about it. >> this is one of the biggest scandals involving a u.s. attorney, accusing rachel rollins of serious misconduct, including violating federal law by lying under oath and using her office for political purposes, the dojs inspector general said in a 155-page report that she used her position to help a candidate for district attorney by trying to plant a story that the justice department would b...

Anything like it. [laughter] >> look, they should investigate this fully, the indictment should be pursued, i am perfectly willing to believe there is underlying criminal behavior, but lets continue to have just as much and attention in the less glamorous crimes members of congress may have committed with the insider trading, all the people in congress who knew covid was coming and went and dumped stocks, bought stocks. lets not concentrate too much on this one because really kind of funny. howa...

The table while he has business before the supreme court. thomas has not responded to any of the most recent charges and after the first story came out about the vacations he issued a statement said he didnt think the trips with close personal friends were reportable. democrats are demanding a formal ing ethics code for the supreme court, which has no ethical code of conduct that governors every other federal judge in america. and most republicans are afraid of angering the base or looking like ...