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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 -- it's 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 won't even go to congress to talk about the issue of should there be ethics rules. you know, supreme court justices should comply with ethics rules. you know who else does comply? elected members of the executive branch. they're constitutional...

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 that's what the chief justice has said. we can do it ourselves. i see no action being taken there. but nonetheless, that's what they've 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. it's shameful how justice thomas and justice alito have been so cavalier about their violations of what would be expected of a justice of the supreme court. here we have a body chosen for life, never have to run for offic...

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 he's 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 doesn't formally abide by these, but there are general restrictions on what judges can do. one is not to take these kinds of gifts. priv...

What alito didn't 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 don't have to disclose that, but it's clear that that doesn't include private jet travel. ethics experts have never excluded that. that's always been something that should be disclosed. you're right, we're not really disputing the facts. there's no affirmative defense of this behavior. >> brian fallon, alito is really mad. we know that from alito. alito, who was george w. bush's...