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Back in 2002, i had to go to a hospital and tell a parent that their son or daughter was never going to come home. the greatest country in the world, the greatest democracy every created and yet we have this carnage and our democratic system so far has been unwilling to fix it. no rational person thinks you should be able to sell a rifle that's advertised as able to bring down a commercial airliner. nobody thinks we should be selling armor-piercing bullets. you don't need that if you're hunting deer or elk. we shouldn't be selling guns to addicts or criminally deranged and the law on the books...

Justice would give the impression that he was joining the throng, confirming his new moniker as justice from the tea party. glenn, doesn't a supreme court justice, above all in a situation like this, have to care about perception? >> absolutely. and the supreme court itself has said that repeatedly. i mean, remember that the key principle here is that judges are vested with extraordinary power in the american political system. power that no elected official, including the president even yields. they can strike down laws that the american people through their congress enact, even when huge majo...

Justice thomas' wife does, so you check those forms and see it if there's any conflicts. the citizens united case, for example, the tea party group that his wife was running was a direct beneficiary of the citizens united ruling because they get so much of their money from unlimited donors and aren't able to spend in unlimited ways thanks to that decision and she gets a salary we haven't had disclosed from that decision as well. that's a very serious ethical issue. but on top of that, remember, this is a judge on the united states supreme court who constantly imposes punishment on people, who ...

Individuals who fund lots of right wing causes, at the very same time they were deciding the citizens united case, which were downed to the benefit greatly of the coke brothers who proceeded to spend tons of money in the last election s a crass politicalization we haven't seen. it's much different from the traditional ways in the rare instances when justices want to speak to the public, they do it in a way that doesn't subvert the legitimacy of their rulings. >> glenn, how concerned should we be about justice thomas failing for over 20 years to identify the source of his wife's income? the sou...

Sometimes dictate the outcome of presidential elections. so what we demand of judges who are unelected and serve for life in exchain of giving these sweeping powers, they refrain from being political actors. they make decisions only on the law and always act impartially. like you said, it's not that they just do that in fact, but that they are per seoed to be impartial. that's what the supreme court has said is crucial, less the american people lose faith in the court as a legitimate branch of government. what you see with clarence thomas and especially with antonin scalia, it's been going on ...