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Sen. Whitehouse and Lawrence Bash Justice Thomas's Billionaire-Funded Lifestyle 

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
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August 10 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joins MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell discuss ProPublica’s latest bombshell report further exposing the breadth of undisclosed billionaire-funded gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Whitehouse has long been the Senate’s leading voice for improving transparency and accountability at the Supreme Court. Last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed Whitehouse’s Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act, legislation that would help restore the American public’s sinking trust in the Supreme Court by fortifying regulations regarding judicial conflicts of interest and recusal. The bill was endorsed by The New York Times editorial board.

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@patcomerford5596
@patcomerford5596 Год назад
It is time to impeach the grifter justice Thomas.
@jadabaudelaire118
@jadabaudelaire118 Год назад
​@tradde11Gotta hope the next two election cycles are fruitful for the liberal minded candidates so real progress can be attained.
@reginawade7370
@reginawade7370 Год назад
impeach how about charge him and the other s for tax evasion . not reporting those gifts and avoiding paying the taxes.
@kenbrownfield6584
@kenbrownfield6584 Год назад
and his gf
@scarpfish
@scarpfish Год назад
It's time for the public to realize that the whole concept of impeachment is a joke. In what other trial is a jury composed not of a group of randomly selected people who are vetted to make the jury fair and impartial, but instead composed of your political friends and enemies, in which the makeup of that group honestly means more than the seriousness of any crimes committed.
@ziziroberts8041
@ziziroberts8041 Год назад
Thank you, Senator Whitehouse. ⚖️🗽🇺🇸
@janenef
@janenef Год назад
The two of you are shining the light on this dark side of justice. Keep it up.
@SibylVerchCymru
@SibylVerchCymru Год назад
Remedy for SCOTUS: Remove corrupt judges. Institute term limits. Eliminate ALL ‘gifts’ of ANY type/value. Establish harsh punishments and automatic expulsion for violation.
@reginawade7370
@reginawade7370 Год назад
Gifts more like lavish bribes and then tax evasion
@phoenixrisn9697
@phoenixrisn9697 Год назад
I wish I could like this 100 times.
@richardhoover7569
@richardhoover7569 Год назад
This situation must be addressed. It is ridiculous that the Supreme Court is above the law. This cannot stand.
@feliciaflores4680
@feliciaflores4680 Год назад
After Thomas's stupid statement, it seems like he's doing us a got damn favor by sitting his mediocre, very well endowed ass on the bench.
@jodywho6696
@jodywho6696 Год назад
Thank You Senator Whitehouse✨🇺🇸✨💙✨
@chelsealeonardbaum23
@chelsealeonardbaum23 Год назад
Funny how the judges funded by billionaires, vote to pass laws benefiting billionaires. I wish that greed was a curable disease.
@thesoundsmith
@thesoundsmith Год назад
Greed is totally curable, as the species will discover in the next decade or so. Greed only exists as long as the human race exists, and we are killing off ALL mammals in the rush to own EVERYTHING.
@jadabaudelaire118
@jadabaudelaire118 Год назад
Some people have said that bullets and cyanide cure greed rather swiftly. That might be a pretty radical path though... Especially for a pacifist like myself
@gregallen4272
@gregallen4272 Год назад
We need to bring back the tax code that Dwight Eisenhower had of 79 percent on the top percent above 279 thousand dollars per year and that made the 1950 's and 1960 's a lot better times than today. The ultra rich people spent their money on cars and private vacation and lived large and then people could work for them and make good money for a family and only one would have to work and mom could stay home and take care of their children. And own a new car and home and take at least one week long vacation. Tax the powerful billionaires boys back into being just millionaires and limit ownership of homes to 10 max other wise we will become a rental property nation
@marvinmartin4692
@marvinmartin4692 Год назад
It is! Look to France late 17hundreds! As well as many other countries solutions!
@billrobbins5874
@billrobbins5874 Год назад
Is this justice? Pay to pass laws in favor of the rich? Two-tier justice system? No wonder why public trust is at an all time low.
@HamRadioAdventures
@HamRadioAdventures Год назад
Hold them accountable!
@sammi-joreviews1135
@sammi-joreviews1135 Год назад
If being a SCOTUS isn’t paying him enough, then Thomas needs to resign from the bench.
@jp6234
@jp6234 6 месяцев назад
The honor of serving your country should outshine the dollar value of the salary.
@alisonviscosi5518
@alisonviscosi5518 Год назад
Can we just "bounce" him off the Supreme Court already?!
@sharondavid-melly1498
@sharondavid-melly1498 Год назад
Praise and love for Senator Whitehouse who cares so much about the American people
@kenbrownfield6584
@kenbrownfield6584 Год назад
He is one of the best Senators we have in Congress
@trs4437
@trs4437 Год назад
Best senator, period.
@debfarey5886
@debfarey5886 Год назад
How can anyone so corrupt make unbiased, constitutional focused decisions??? Bravo Senator Whitehouse! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 For enlightening the public!
@hw-rg7gn
@hw-rg7gn Год назад
Well, Whitehouse and Durbin had months to issue subpoenas to SCOTUS and the donors, but instead ran out the clock with feckless letters and rambling hearings. What use is power if Whitehouse and Durbin are terrified to use it?
@jadabaudelaire118
@jadabaudelaire118 Год назад
Well, to go even further.... even if he wasn't corrupt, through money issues.. He still has terrible "conservative" views that align with the worst of the "conservative" ideology in America, and wouldn't be able to make fair judgement in many cases...
@jodywho6696
@jodywho6696 Год назад
@@hw-rg7gn And what you did was fantastic. Congress is holding hearing on stoves. Vote
@carolm3055
@carolm3055 Год назад
Thank you for investigating crooked Thomas and any cheaters!! 💙🇺🇸💙
@albamontoya348
@albamontoya348 Год назад
These judges need to be fired right away!!!
@harryjr1133
@harryjr1133 Год назад
Don't talk about it,be about it. Impeach this corrupt "Judge".
@marvinmartin4692
@marvinmartin4692 Год назад
Talk won’t cook rice!
@HmmmYeahRiiiiiight
@HmmmYeahRiiiiiight Год назад
You can thank Bush for this fucker
@patriciamartinez-lx8dy
@patriciamartinez-lx8dy Год назад
No one is above the law. Thank you, Senator Whitehouse, for being vigilant from the beginning with this corruption within the Supreme Court.
@phil20_20
@phil20_20 Год назад
They should impeach these guys. What an ego Thomas has.
@philip9569
@philip9569 Год назад
Whitehouse always the BEST!!!
@Kwk16534
@Kwk16534 Год назад
❤❤❤❤❤
@manwithmountain
@manwithmountain Год назад
fingers crossed SCOTUS gets cleaned up.
@everydaydisruptionsjackiem7896
Keep shining the light on this!
@hamburgersmmmmmm
@hamburgersmmmmmm Год назад
Stop telling us it's going to get worse and how bad it is already. Impeach him and implement a no gifts policy as well as term limits and age limits.
@jodywho6696
@jodywho6696 Год назад
Congress is all maga. Don't shoot the messenger. ✨🇺🇸✨
@kewakl8891
@kewakl8891 Год назад
some MUST follow laws. too bad repubs and right-wing-christofascists feel no compunction to follow the law. I understand that some liberal judges have had 'reporting issues.' they should also face punishment
@phoenixrisn9697
@phoenixrisn9697 Год назад
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@Diana-jx1ju
@Diana-jx1ju Год назад
Please stay with the course! People must know this! We must stand for decency in ethics! These are moral concerns and define our Democracy for what it can become out of what it is right now! Thankyou so much for your work, Sen. Whitehouse!
@BennilocoLoves
@BennilocoLoves Год назад
I live on 24K a year, raising grandkids, and get no help..Im over qualified! But please do let these thieves live like kings and get paid for it? They need to be drug out of the highest court in the land, and charged with their financial crimes, and any other crimes they have committed during their time as SCOTUS! ENOUGH is ENOUGH! 😠
@daren7889
@daren7889 Год назад
EXACTLY!
@thesoundsmith
@thesoundsmith Год назад
Enough is enough? Not if you're Republican - or a SCOTUS Injustice. Too much is never enough.
@spir5102
@spir5102 Год назад
It is sickening to see the people who are supposed to oversee the highest court in America be so corrupt! They must be brought to justice.
@waynerobinson7057
@waynerobinson7057 Год назад
One needs to look back at rulings from the SC involving those billionaires.
@youdonthavetoreadthispost.5850
A bold faced liar packed the court ! When he is convicted his picks should be rescreened, and perhaps rejected.. Thomas is on the road to damnation ! term and Age limits Please !
@judesmith4941
@judesmith4941 Год назад
Thank you Senator Whitehouse for your efforts to clean up the court. Get the fat off the bench and install unbiased followers of constitutional law. Overturn Citizens United to get big money back out of politics. Buying Congress and SCOTUS should be against the law. Lobbyist's should not be allowed to purchase votes! Get them out of the Halls of Congress.
@annjamieson6544
@annjamieson6544 Год назад
Exactly.
@MsOscara
@MsOscara Год назад
Clarence Thomas actually believes everything he's gotten are things he is entitled to. For someone so anti-entitlement, he sure reaps the benefits of his sense of entitlement. And so does his wife.
@marvinmartin4692
@marvinmartin4692 Год назад
The true entitlement people!
@chrismerkel9604
@chrismerkel9604 Год назад
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolute!
@mlight7402
@mlight7402 Год назад
Thank you for looking to the bottom around the Thomas's finances.
@DeKKH
@DeKKH Год назад
All 6 of these conservative justices need to be removed. Especially Thomas!!!! And Alito!!
@Harkart59
@Harkart59 Год назад
KAVA NAH! AND THE HAND MAID NUT CASE TOO
@thesoundsmith
@thesoundsmith Год назад
And The Handmaid, GOD has NO PLACE in American Justice.
@jadabaudelaire118
@jadabaudelaire118 Год назад
And at the same time, we need to examine closely the liberal judges to ensure they aren't also ensnared in similar actions. That way the damned nutjob christofascist "conservatives" can't "whatabout" with any legitimacy..
@gregallen4272
@gregallen4272 Год назад
We need term limits for all elected officials of 8 years max per person lifetime total and judges for 10 years total lifetime max per person and no retirement benefits or health insurance benefits if they want health insurance benefits they can pass it for everyone and 65 year old max before they are elected. And then they can live with the same laws they pass for us minions.
@rachelnyn5543
@rachelnyn5543 Год назад
@@Harkart59. Crybaby Kavenaugh!
@gabrieleoverweg3716
@gabrieleoverweg3716 Год назад
Everyone is so surprised that Thomas is corrupt ? One only has to watch the Anita Hill hearings and listen to this Virginia Thomas phone call many years later, where this woman ask Anita Hill for an apology. Well, well, well........
@jodywho6696
@jodywho6696 Год назад
And the corrupt people who confirmed him. ✨🇺🇸✨
@jumperpoint
@jumperpoint Год назад
If the job isn't worth doing we can find someone else to do it. Easily. And as a bonus it will definitely be someone who can do the job better.
@theemporersnewclothes
@theemporersnewclothes Год назад
Whitehouse for the white house.
@feliciaflores4680
@feliciaflores4680 Год назад
Wouldn't that be cool to hear that everyday.. " President Whitehouse is doing "blank"at the Whitehouse today" 😊
@Kwk16534
@Kwk16534 Год назад
❤❤❤❤
@shiva2731
@shiva2731 Год назад
Make it law that public servants income taxes be part of the public record. They will run like cockroaches with the light cut on.
@alisonmcrae1281
@alisonmcrae1281 Год назад
Small minded people value money over morals
@Darkslayeran
@Darkslayeran Год назад
WHY IS HE STILL SITTING ON THE SUPREME COURT WHAT CAN WE DO TO OUST HIM?
@HmmmYeahRiiiiiight
@HmmmYeahRiiiiiight Год назад
Vote blue?
@dougking4377
@dougking4377 Год назад
Can Whitehouse submit an Impeachment bill in Congress against Thomas?
@jodywho6696
@jodywho6696 Год назад
But congress are maga💙💙💙💙💙✨🇺🇸✨
@kenbrownfield6584
@kenbrownfield6584 Год назад
He can but dems don't have enough votes in Congress...yet
@cathypascoe674
@cathypascoe674 Год назад
Thank goodness for Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Please keep your sense of mission strong for the people of the United States.
@Kwk16534
@Kwk16534 Год назад
❤❤❤
@jodywho6696
@jodywho6696 Год назад
Thank You Lawrence✨🇺🇸✨💙💜💚
@gram710
@gram710 Год назад
Thank you for all your efforts in holding the supreme court justices to account.
@fusedchromosome9350
@fusedchromosome9350 Год назад
There should be NO lifetime appointments to any office.
@janetmelton6890
@janetmelton6890 Год назад
Thank you both! The Press and Congress ~~~ no one is above the law! No One!!!
@carolineadjei7003
@carolineadjei7003 Год назад
Good job Senator.
@Kwk16534
@Kwk16534 Год назад
❤❤❤❤
@SibylVerchCymru
@SibylVerchCymru Год назад
Uncle Thomas has to keep Miss Ginny in style and she has spensive taste.
@micheleconner5083
@micheleconner5083 Год назад
She makes more than him. It's more like she's keeping him,and he's got expensive tastes.
@john-eloyarends3157
@john-eloyarends3157 Год назад
Did he pay taxes on all these bribes?
@micheleconner5083
@micheleconner5083 Год назад
Probably not. They'd have to be listed as gifts with an estimated value. He could lie about their value, too.
@user-bu9nb8wr6e
@user-bu9nb8wr6e Год назад
When will this treason end.
@Kwk16534
@Kwk16534 Год назад
Senator Whitehouse is bringing the hotness back to DC❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@HalfBackCrack
@HalfBackCrack Год назад
He should resign ASAP if it isnt worth it.
@kathrynshaw192
@kathrynshaw192 Год назад
It is distressing to find so many small-minded punks at the top of our current government. There once was a time when we would say that after we have had the "best", we could forget the "rest". Thomas is certainly Not going to be one of the "rest" to disprove that rule. Instead, we will be pulling his name out of the history books as an example of "What Not to do" for hundreds of years.
@XLseattle
@XLseattle Год назад
The entire quote by Clarence Thomas is “The job is not worth doing for the pay. It's not worth doing for the grief. But it is worth doing for the principle.” But if you are corrupt how principled are you?
@astrologerdawn1200
@astrologerdawn1200 Год назад
So Thomas never escaped being a slave?
@missmarya747
@missmarya747 Год назад
Never‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
@Deepseaclammer
@Deepseaclammer Год назад
We should have a Special Counsel to investigate THIS mess....just sayin
@micheleconner5083
@micheleconner5083 Год назад
I'm sure there are many people that make 30k a year that would gladly swap places with Thomas! It would take someone 10 years at 30k a year to earn what Thomas gets per year! And he sits there on his high horse moaning that's not enough? Possibly he should go into private practice as a lawyer and actually do some work for that money. I hear 45 is always looking for attorneys!
@HmmmYeahRiiiiiight
@HmmmYeahRiiiiiight Год назад
LOL you just said work for the money. Trump doesn't pay his bills.
@eternalskeptic
@eternalskeptic Год назад
💲💲💲The Supreme Court is the best Court that money can buy! 💲💲💲 🤔
@dancefran51
@dancefran51 Год назад
Thank you Senator Whitehouse!! ⚖️☮️♥️
@shealorena
@shealorena Год назад
Teachers like me can't afford a vacation.
@jdcustom4655
@jdcustom4655 Год назад
So.......HE chose the Wrong Job!...........He isnt qualified for it anyway!
@jodywho6696
@jodywho6696 Год назад
They are making policy. That is not the job they are paid for. ✨🇺🇸✨
@chaslam1945
@chaslam1945 Год назад
Need to be removed how can we trust him. Disgustingly greedy
@leighmartin3223
@leighmartin3223 Год назад
Thank you Senator Whitehouse for your clear voice and integrity...we support you. Leigh Martin
@thiawroane
@thiawroane Год назад
Crime don't pay.
@philipd8868
@philipd8868 6 месяцев назад
Well done, Senator, well done, Lawrence, thank you for your hard work for decency and justice, without resentment or name calling. This is what we are losing ...
@philip9569
@philip9569 Год назад
Hey, get off his back. It aint easy earning those bribes.
@HmmmYeahRiiiiiight
@HmmmYeahRiiiiiight Год назад
Apparently is is otherwise he wouldn't have so damn many 😅🤣😂
@ArtHelm
@ArtHelm Год назад
Thomas, and Roberts, both have to go! They're both crooked as hell.
@factsmatter8449
@factsmatter8449 Год назад
and Alito!!!
@caroldesjean3485
@caroldesjean3485 Год назад
It’s amazing that a billionaire donor can stop the student loan forgiveness terrible
@MOMO41837
@MOMO41837 Год назад
Chief Justice John Roberts silence on these matters is deafening...
@hermionegardener3796
@hermionegardener3796 Год назад
Well, he hold the highest position for a judge/lawmaker in this country. If he is so unhappy in his current role as a SCJ, perhaps he should seek employment elsewhere? I'm sure his wife can get him a job? Or maybe he should go rogue in a private firm and not in the us govt?
@dianagale581
@dianagale581 7 месяцев назад
I love your show, Lawrence, especially when you have great guest like Senator Whitehouse. That’s good reporting and politics 💙💙💙
@bg9255
@bg9255 Год назад
so what did the country expect to happen when donnie padded the courts
@muzzymuzzy12
@muzzymuzzy12 Год назад
Serving the people isn't supposed to make you rich. It is supposed to be a privilege and honor.
@nancychace8619
@nancychace8619 Год назад
Unbelievable. Thank you to Sen. Whitehouse for his persistence. I think part of the problem is that when our system was set up, our culture was based on a positive outlook. People were counted on to strive to "do the right thing", and the concept of "evil" we have allowed to permiate our world didn't exist back then, at least not in the way it does now. Our supreme court justices were counted on to be pillars of our society with a profoundly comprehensive grasp of the law and the fortitude and character to be able to carry it out. Unfortunately, our world, culture and methods of operandi have declined, and the character of some to go along with it. It won't add up in our supreme court. Thanks and appreciation for a good report. Hang in there, Sen. Whitehouse.
@constancehaase352
@constancehaase352 Год назад
Thank you for all the information!
@constancehaase352
@constancehaase352 Год назад
Why would they get the right to behave that way.i wasn't following this that close but knowing this information its time to clean our Supreme Court up!!
@NathanTarantlawriter
@NathanTarantlawriter Год назад
Nothing will be done.
@doreenfogarty2664
@doreenfogarty2664 Год назад
I Thank you both for this update 👍 I hope their ship sinks ! 👏👏⚖️
@SMS9155
@SMS9155 Год назад
We DO have a problem and that problem is the greed in humans. The only way to kill this in humans is to bring the greed to the courts and prosecute. No one is above the law, not even the wantabe king makers. Justice demands the prosecution of the greed.
@jetta2134
@jetta2134 Год назад
You are right Senator! i wish i had never heard these !
@trs4437
@trs4437 Год назад
It’s no wonder Thomas barely spoke a word in the court FOR YEARS. He was probably never adequately prepared, having been living the high life all this time. He’s just hard-right placeholder on the SCOTUS, bought and paid for, and seems perfectly willing to be just that. A vacuous nobody on the most powerful court, arguably, in the world.
@akeleven
@akeleven Год назад
Thomas was taking inproper gifts when he worked for the equal opportunity employment division. He can be prosecuted.
@d12tu68
@d12tu68 Год назад
that judge should be watched good 👍
@terihaynes-yf9jb
@terihaynes-yf9jb Год назад
No taking advantage of the taxpayers. 1% millionaires. Congratulations Judge Thomas
@jannichi6431
@jannichi6431 Год назад
Senator Lee, CA has called for his resignation.
@nnsnumbersandnotesunlimite7368
The Supreme Courtrupt !
@Saturday8pm
@Saturday8pm Год назад
“Captured” is a good read. Just more stuff to get angry over. 🇺🇸
@katherinecrossman8521
@katherinecrossman8521 Год назад
I wrote the name of the book down . IAlways like to read a well recommended book
@augustinedaniel9417
@augustinedaniel9417 Год назад
Here is a simple statement. True leaders lead in front. Supreme Court justices, please think. The consequences will be too much to bear. It will be colossal.
@AzEagletarian
@AzEagletarian Год назад
Hey hey, ho ho, Clarence Thomas has GOT TO GO!
@missmarya747
@missmarya747 Год назад
Why continue to talk about their crimes ??? Investigate and charge them. Talking doesn’t do anything.
@lseh4720
@lseh4720 Год назад
Thomas need to go to jail, along with his wife.
@marshallsilva9389
@marshallsilva9389 Год назад
Talk about draining the swamp, here you go GOP
@ziziroberts8041
@ziziroberts8041 Год назад
Willful. Since 1991.
@davidgoff357
@davidgoff357 6 месяцев назад
They believe they are untouchable.
@fauxque5057
@fauxque5057 Год назад
I would like to see the itemization of a vacation worth millions.
@dodipalmer856
@dodipalmer856 Год назад
The problem is that Thomas and Alito don’t give a damn what anyone thinks. They think no one has a right to question anything they do.
@ottochristensen4841
@ottochristensen4841 Год назад
A US Supreme Court judge receives §285,000 in salary annually. A primary school teacher earns §46,465 annually. A Supreme Court judge's income is about 6 times that of a primary school teacher.
@chaslam1945
@chaslam1945 Год назад
They can be cellmates with Trump
@hamburgersmmmmmm
@hamburgersmmmmmm Год назад
Just a friend giving a friend million dollar vacations because - friends.
@crystalrachel
@crystalrachel Год назад
It sounds to me that there is no endpoint accountability. Even if the justices stop receiving favors, what is to stop them from giving favor?
@nancygibson604
@nancygibson604 Год назад
Thomas has to go😂
@ourglass3346
@ourglass3346 Год назад
Senator Whitehouse is on there ass!!!!
@lilianfowler7988
@lilianfowler7988 Год назад
If he dislikes his job he needs to quit. So many Americans work extremely hard to barely survive. For me at 60, a vacation means being able to rest so I can work. I don't get to go on fancy vacations.
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