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what's happening here, there is a political perception issue with the court and the credibility of it. and so that's the question of whether or not that affects how people see those decisions that are made by these justices. these rulings that we are getting when they're looking at these it's trips to bali and which i should note was on a private plane and a private yacht that was not part of the disclosure tonight yeah. >> i think that's exactly right. i mean, this is a moment where people across the board have our steadily losing faith in our institutions, including journalism, including the courts. and so the idea that these justices are not being forthcoming, that they're not disclosing these incredibly significant and in thomas's case, lavish gifts from people who have significant political influence within the republican party. that is, that is troubling and the fact that he, has a different points said he wasn't obligated to disclose it or and then said he forgot the sheer fact that he's not
>> sean: welcome to hannity tonight major major breaking news from new york city as not long ago new york a judge issuing a very bizarre unusual leather notifying president donald trump attorneys and the da office about a social media post on the unified court system's public facebook page. the posting question reads of the following my cousin is a juror he says trump is getting convicted. thank you folks for all of your hard work. of the post was published the day before the verdict on a wednesday may 29th in the letter the judge did not indicate whether this post was valid or if the court's are investigating the matter but it's by far a very by any level and alarming development we will
supported by others and who the others are is an open question and their impact on him is an open question, but it's a complete and run around all of the rules and normal, we should point out justice thomas, he's big on talking about how he just loves to travel around in his rv and stay in trailer parks that's clearly not what he's been doing at the bohemian grove and in bali and all these places paid for we're by others norm, i mean justice alito, who's obviously been criticized for failing to disclose luxury travel paid for by billionaire with interest for the court told the wall street journal last year that congress has no power to impose new ethics or disclosure rules on the court. he said, quote, i know this is a controversial view, but i'm willing to say it. no provision of the constitution gives him the jordi to regulate the supreme court period. end quote, is he right he's wrong anderson. >> it's contrary to the
these kinds of luxury vacations because of the appearance that creates a exploiting official action the givers of these gifts have ideological or business issues before the court it's absolutely outrageous and unacceptable and justice alito is not above the law. >> judge gertner every mentioned the supreme court watchdog group fix the court. they released an estimate of the number of gifts justice since i've received their total value of last two decades, according to groups data or the nearly 5 million in gifts the justices and proceed more than 4 million of it went to justice thomas that's incredible that's well, that's what i'm saying. >> he judicial pay is regulated. judicial conduct is regulated. this is a completely unregulated supporting of this justice which up until recently he kept out of public view, but i'm more concerned even just about the fact happy that you
formally disclosed to 2019 trips that were paid for by the republican megadonor, harlan crow saying that he quote, inadvertently omitted the trip to bali. and another trip to a private club in california. >> it was the nondisclosure of those trips, which were first reported by propublica in an investigation that raised major questions about what gifts that thomas and other justices may have been receiving justice ketanji brown jackson disclosed for tickets to a bianna concert last year, a gift i should note from bianna herself. >> and we also learned that several of the justices have received six-figure payments last year for book deals and includes justice jackson, justice brett having all and also justice neil gorsuch. now these disclosures come at a time when there are a lot of ethics questions for the supreme court and as their only several weeks left for them to decide and we'll find out what they decide on several politically supercharged cases
suggest that he was trying to sway what the court's doing. i think remember he was on the judiciary committee for many, many years in the senate. he takes all of that very, very seriously and views the idea of the erosion of trust in the court as a really fundamental problem for the country as he thinks about how to approach this within the confines of a political campaign. he's thinking about how to not further erode that trust that he thinks is really fundamental to our system continuing to work. so i think there are as we've been discussing here, i think there are legitimate questions concerns. i think when a supreme court justice views themselves as so far outside of the realm of politics. and this is what i mean by political, that they can take a 4 million from a over the course of of their career from a significant conservative donor and not have to disclose that because they view themselves as so far outside of the process that's that they're not obligated to disclose it. that's a problem that creates trust issues and i
transfer of the presidency. how did he go from this chief of staff to the most powerful man on earth to this, if you failed to appear for court without good cause, a warrant could issue for your arrest. >> these indicted along with in other trump acolytes, including rudy giuliani, lawyers, john eastman, jenna ellis, christina bobb, as well as advisors, boris epshteyn and michael roman also arizona's 11 so-called fake electors, state lawmakers and republican operatives who gathered in phoenix december 14, 2020 pledging part president donald j. trump of his state of florida. >> but joe biden had won the state, thus winning there states 11 electoral votes. they also sent the fake pro-trump electoral certificates to washington those fake electors hoped prosecutors say to encourage vice president mike
case, each supreme court justice has been left to him or her south to decide what's okay what's not okay. and how to deal with potential violation josh, it is great to have you. >> thank you so much, josh caplan with propublica thanks for having me on also tonight, hunter biden, wiping away tears in court as his daughter, naomi, took the stand naomi appearing very uncomfortable, trembling, also tearing up as she testified, telling the jury about visiting her dad in rehab and a late-night text that he sent her around the time that he bought his gun saying, quote, i can't take this. i miss you so much and i just want to hang out. naomi also testifying, quote, things got bad for hunter biden following the death of her uncle, beau biden, and that she did not see her father used drugs at any point in 2018? i want to go straight to evan perez. he is outside the courtroom delaware right now and evan, a hunter
in the week since donald trump was found guilty of 34 counts in a new york courtroom, some of the wealthiest americans have come out to announce their support for him. steve, i really want to talk about this. just in the last week donald trump has this new crop of not even your average wall street business guys. i mean the top of the top was successful. coming out, throwing artese for him, supporting him.
thing. until arizona agents caught up with giuliani and he said his 80th birthday in florida now has two weeks to appear in person in court and post a $10,000 bond giuliani so far hasn't indicated exactly when he'll be heading to arizona, the maricopa county sheriff's department tells us that he hasn't yet been processed for that mug shot or fingerprints that he is required to do briana. >> we did check in to see where he was live streaming from today. he's in the state of michigan brianna. >> very interesting. qiong. thank you for that report. and donald trump himself still staring down three other criminal trials after his conviction in his hush money trial out front. now, one voter from a key swing state who is now rethinking his support for trump in the wake of his conviction in new york eric tapers with this now from georgia, eric, thank you for being with us thank you for having me. so you are a