tonight on the reidout last month, we learned about a justice who for years has accepted lavish trips and real estate purchases worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. from a billionaire with interests before the court. that justice failed to disclose these gifts. how low can the court go? how low indeed. the senate judiciary committee holds a hearing on the mounting scandals involving supreme court justices. committee member sheldon whitehouse joins me in a moment. also tonight, it felt like trump had 40 zillion hands. that was testimony today from jessica leads, who claims she was molested by donald trump on a flight. she joins me tonight. plus, some of your favorite tv shows are going dark as hollywood writers go on strike. tonight, a look at the important issues that led to the walkout. and we begin tonight with the united states supreme court. the nine individuals with lifetime appointments highest law giving body in the nation, who have the power to determ
than $725 billion for lawsuits and without its biggest, brightest star, tucker carlson the new york times reports that his departure is made more stun big the fact that the network did nothing after carlson pushed the envelope over and over, pedaling inflammatory information. quote, the network stuck by him after carlson claimed that immigration had made america, quote, poor and dirty. he seemed to shrug off a racist conspiracy theory known as the great replacement, along with the fact that when russia invaded ukraine, he seemed to promote russia s point of view the fallout from carlson s ouster is unclear. quote, mr. carlson s rise prefigured trump s takeover of the republican party his own conversion from bow tied libertarian to popularist remade the party. he prospered with trump s presidency he made frank nativism the primary touch stones of republican politics. if fox and its host prospered because of trump, their efforts to deny the presidential results threw the netw
tonight on the reidout last month, we learned about a justice who for years has accepted lavish trips and real estate purchases worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. from a billionaire with interests before the court. that justice failed to disclose these gifts. how low can the court go? how low indeed. the senate judiciary committee holds a hearing on the mounting scandals involving supreme court justices. committee member sheldon whitehouse joins me in a moment. also tonight, it felt like trump had 40 zillion hands. that was testimony today from jessica leads, who claims she was molested by donald trump on a flight. she joins me tonight. plus, some of your favorite tv shows are going dark as hollywood writers go on strike. tonight, a look at the important issues that led to the walkout. and we begin tonight with the united states supreme court.
there s a public interest in disclosure of political funds in a democracy? that s, i don t think, a prejudgment. that s just a values proposition, and one of the considerations that you ought to be able to answer without much hesitation. senator, what i m prepared to say is i recognize that as a matter of first amendment interests the supreme court has validated the proposition that disclosure serves important functions in a democracy. at the same time, the supreme court s office acknowledged those disclosure functions can sometimes themselves have unintended consequences. you know, there s a sense that number one, you can t believe anything they said in their hearings. i m sorry to say, because they always said things about stare decisis. what they said about roe v. wade. it s settled law. but it also seems to me that at least the conservative majority, they act like little princes.
serving in many other branches of government. it has largely left justices to make their own decisions about when and how to report outside gifts and income more and new ethical questions about another justice on the supreme court is where we begin the hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends dahlia ligt wick is legal correspondent for slate, host of the am muss podcast. also joining us brian fallen, co-founder and executive director of demand justice, a progressive judicial advocacy group. harry lippman is former deputy assistant attorney general and former republican congressman and msnbc contributor david jolly joins us harry litppman, i think we gave you a promotion. i may have promoted you there. demoted.