After the series of controversies involving Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Senate

Democrats are exploring the possibility of introducing their own ethical code for justices.

To discuss the court and other major news of the week, we turn now to the analysis of

Brooks and Capehart, that's New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Jonathan Capehart,

associate editor for the Washington Post, it's always great to see you both.

So let's start with the new reporting this week that billionaire Republican donor Harlan

Crow paid the monthly private boarding school tuition for the grand nephew of Justice Clarence

Thomas, whom Thomas was raising as his son.

This is yet another gift that the Justice did not disclose.

There's the post reporting that Leonard Leo, a well-known conservative activist, proactively

obscured a $25,000 payment to Clarence Thomas' wife, Jenny Thomas, raising again this

issue of Supreme Court ethics reform.

Jonathan Democrats say that the Supreme Court should write a code for itself, and in the

absence of that, Congress should step in.

How do you see it?

I don't see anything wrong with that.

Congress has ethics laws and rules and regulations, it has to abide by, and yet the Supreme

Court doesn't.

And I think it was a missed opportunity by the Chief Justice to not accept Senator Durbin's

invitation to meet with the committee, to talk with the committee so that at least through

the committee, the American people can understand where the justices are coming from in terms

of their resistance to any kind of accountability.

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