Court justice. Clarence thomas and samuel alito. They were each appointed 15 years apart by president s from connecticut who wanted you to believe they were from texas. The bushes were born in connecticut where the family had deep roots. The father of the first President Bush was prescott bush. Republican senator from connecticut. The bush family preferred to go to College Close to home so father and son president s both went to yale. They were called Country Club Republicans. They hated paying taxes. The first President Bush was a supporter of planned parenthood before he was selected to be Ronald Reagans running mate in 1980 whereupon he had to suddenly pretend he was opposed to any and all abortions. By the time george w. Bush was running for president , Country Club Republicans had been banished from the party and replaced by born again christians which george w. Bush claimed to be. 1988 was one of those years when president ial Campaign Polls could not have been more wrong giving Massachusetts GovernorMichael Dukakis a 17 point lead in the summer over Vice President george h. W. Bush. We are suffering with the reign of Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court because george h. W. Bush won the president ial election in 1988. Served only one term and left only one legacy. Clarence thomas. Clarence thomas who has clearly become the most publicly corrupt Supreme Court justice in history. Taking massment amounts of money. Hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a motor home. He has not paid income taxes on that money that has been handed to him by a billionaire who doesnt want Clarence Thomas to have to live on his salary as a Supreme Court justice and his wifes substantial income. Clarence thomas may be a tax criminal. We dont know yet. Because he refuses to answer questions about the Tax Treatment of all the money that has been handed directly to him. A personal financial corruption, as egregious as it is, does not leave the mark on history that Corruption Of Judicial Scholarship Leaves on the lives of everyone living under laws written, some would say invented by the Supreme Court. Which brings us to samuel alito who was the product of a president ial election that was decided by the republican majority on the Supreme Court. In the year 2000 when the Supreme Court decided to stop Counting Votes in florida, their decision, they knew, gave the election to george w. Bush over Vice President al gore. George w. Bush was the first candidate in history who did not get the most votes but won the presidency. Al gore got more votes than the person who won the electoral college. Or was awarded the electoral college. By the Supreme Court. That was the first time in my life i heard people who spent their lives respecting the Supreme Court suddenly saying that the Supreme Court had become just another partisan institution. Many people, me included, tried to think of it as a single decision that was a close call that looked partisan. But might not be. Time would tell. If the Supreme Court had become another warm of republican governments. Now, 24 years later, it is worse than anyone thought in 2000. After the bush v gore decision. Samuel alito was the first and only Supreme Court heckler during a state of the Union Address. Samuel alito disgraced himself and the Supreme Court when he decided he had something to say during the state of the union by the first black president of the United States. Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that i believe will open the flood gates for special interests including Foreign Corporations to spend without limit in our election. There was alito saying not true. When President Obama was criticizing the courts disastrous decision on campaign finance. Samuel alito was listening to a president who went to a better law school than he did and was a better law student. President obama was the president of the harvard law review. Was it a coincidence that the president was black . Would alito have pulled his punk stunt against a white democratic president . He hasnt done it again with joe biden. But then samuel alito has not shown up for a single state of the Union Address since that time in 2010 when he decided to talk back to the president of the United States. When he decided to be the first and only Supreme Court justice to ever do that. The year before he did that, Republican House member joe wilson, the first heckler of a president in an address to a joint session of congress. He famously yelled you lie at President Obama. Carson wilsons voters in South Carolina no doubt loved that. And now, heckling the president is something that Marjorie Taylor greene and her friends think they are good at during state of the Union Addresses. So think about that. First a vile clown congressman yells you lie to President Obama. And then, the next year, a Supreme Court justice says not true. To President Obama during his state of the Union Address. And now, republicans heckle the president during the state of the Union Address and samuel alito is one of them. If he was in the house, he would be in the back benches with Marjorie Taylor greene yelling at the president. He has given an explanation for why he was flying the American Flag upside down that is obviously a lie. No sane person could believe it. Unless, unless it is to be taken as an Insanity Defense by Justice Alito. When the New York Times reported that the alito home had the American Flag flying upside down after the january 6th attack on the capitol which happened right across the street from the Supreme Court, Justice Alito told this lie as his official explanation. I had no involvement whatsoever in flying the flag. It was briefly placed by mrs. Alito in response to a neighbors use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard lines. Justice alito did not have the decency to come up with a story that had minimal logic in it. Like his Supreme Court opinions, he did not care how preposterous that defense was. So a Supreme Court justice wants you to believe that his wife saw something in a neighbors yard that made her run out to the flag pole, pull down the American Flag, turn it upside down, and run the American Flag back up the flag pole upside down. As some kind of nonverbal insult payback to her neighbor. I refuse to believe that about mrs. Alito. And i refuse to believe a Supreme Court justices attempt to blame this on his wife. Two full days have passed since the second flag was found at the second alito home. The one that was carried by the attackers of the Capitol On January 6th. Just like the upside down American Flag was. This one is called an appeal to heaven flag. Justice alito has not recused himself from two cases currently pending before Supreme Court involving the attack on the Capitol On January 6th including Donald Trumps possible complicity in that attack. He has an obligation to recuse himself because recusal is based on the appearance of bias, not the actual fact of bias. Appearance is enough. The fact doesnt have to be proved, it can simply be a reasonable suspicion of bias. Justices alitos bias about the second flag amplifies this every day. George w. Bush did this. Voter whos didnt want the Supreme Court to take their rights away but decided there was no real difference between al gore and george w. Bush did this. Voters who did not show up to vote in 2000 because they didnt think anything was really at stake. Did this. We are living in the world created by the voters who through neglect or their own choice elected george w. Bush and the voters who through neglect or their own choice elected donald j. Trump. There is only one way for us to stop the control of our lives by the first President Bush and the second President Bush and donald trump and their Supreme Court justice. Justices and that is to vote for a president who will not appoint people like samuel alito to the Supreme Court. There is only one person now. One Person Standing between us and the next samuel alito. And that person is joe biden. Today, the Supreme Court issued a samuel alito decision not surprisingly rejecting a challenge to South Carolinas congressional redirecting back. A challenge brought by voters who said it was deliberately designed to reduce black participation and representation in the House Of Representatives. Justice kagan referred to alitos Coat Upside Down Application of the law. Justice alito actually used the phrase upside down twice. In her dissenting opinion. An obvious reference to Samuel Alitos upside down American Flag and his upside down legal scholarship. Leading off our discussion now is professor Lawrence Tribe who taught constitutional law all Star High School four or five decades. I have to ask you, professor tribe, i feel sometimes when we discuss these things, like im talking to a Chemistry Professor who has been teaching the Periodic Table of elements for more than half of his life. And suddenly, the Periodic Table of elements is just being ripped up. And chemistry becomes guess work. And scholarship has disappeared. I just cant imagine what it feels like to be in the field of constitutional law. And trying to teach constitutional law on such shifting ground. I have to say, it feels challenging, lawrence. To say the least. Its like turning the table of elements upside down. It wasnt just the American Flag that samuel alito flew upside down. He has turned much of the constitution as much as he can get his hands on upside down and inside out. He did that with the law of racial gerrymandering today that was a brilliant by justice kagan. The use of this or that phrase, she just showed that in every respect, samuel alito, there was a decision in which she had written the mayorty in 2017. He had written the dissent. And he basically treats that case as though the dissent was the law. So, samuel alito has not acquitted himself very well. These two flags signal sympathy with the insurrectionists. Ranging from my wife did it to utter silence in the second case. And, the excuses a lot of republicans are giving. Some of them are saying that the appeal to heaven flag was after all similar to the one used by George Washington when he was expressing the virtues of revolution against king george. But in this case, we are not talking about a revolution against a foreign king. We are talking about an insurrection against the transition of power by someone who would make himself king. It is all the difference in the world. I want to listen to something that Justice Alito said in the Supreme Court during the arguments on the question of immunity for donald trump. Lets listen to this. If an incumbent who loses the very close hotly contested election knows that a real possibility, uh, after leaving office is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement, but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy . That for me was the born yesterday comment, the likes of which i have never heard from the Supreme Court. Here is a justice who is ignoring not just judicial history, but history we know. 230 years of that never happening. Right. Its amazing. He is imagining that the real danger is that the president who knows that if he commits terrible crimes, he might be prosecuted. That, that is going to create a terrible situation as you say we havent had. As he ignores the danger of the president who says i can commit whatever crimes i want including crimes against the country to stay in power after i lose the election. And i will be home free. Ill have absolute immunity. It turns everything upside down to have that sense of what the dangers are and i think that we now know this case siting in the court for a very long time is a case in which the president of the United States might be given de facto immunity if the court just sits on it until the end of june and then sends it back down to the judge or the dc circuit for further proceedings, we will never get an answer of whether the president of the United States as he then was, was guilty of abusing his power to stay in power. And commit crimes. Because if he becomes president again, he will simply fire any Attorney General who would keep the prosecution going. So, that right now, the Supreme Court is complicit in granting those who hold the greatest power in the country of the kind of get out of jail free card that will make them even more willing to commit crimes than trump was. Thank you. Coming up, donald trump lost another appeal today. 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