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The Rachel Maddow Show

Trump tests Republican Party willingness to follow him into fascism

The Rachel Maddow Show

MSNBC

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4.534K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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...Plus, Why the Supreme Court's new toothless code of ethics matters 'a little bit'

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0:00.0

Thanks to do you at home for joining us this hour. I'm jumping the gun because this has just been a heck of a day in the news.

0:07.0

The United States Supreme Court for the first time ever has issued an ethics code for Supreme Court justices first time first time in our

0:16.2

history and honestly we have had some terrible Supreme Court justices in our

0:21.2

history it's not like everyone before this was good,

0:24.8

so we didn't need rules.

0:26.2

No, we had a justice resign ahead of being

0:30.0

probably impeached for alleged bribery.

0:33.4

We had a Supreme Court justice revealed

0:35.6

to have been in the KKK

0:38.0

just a few weeks after he got confirmed to the court.

0:41.0

We had a justice who was so anti-Semitic he reportedly would not speak to one of his colleagues.

0:46.7

He would not speak to Justice Brandeis for years because Justice Brandeis was Jewish.

0:53.4

That guy was such a thoroughgoing jerk

0:55.5

that when he died, not a single one of the other Supreme Court

0:58.6

justices even bothered to go to his funeral.

1:01.7

We have had some bad ones I tell you, but we have never

1:06.4

before had a whole wing of the court that has produced corruption

1:09.5

scandal after corruption scandal after corruption scandal after corruption

1:11.8

scandal and not like after corruption, after corruption scandal.

1:13.4

And not like esoteric legalese versions of corruption

1:18.2

that are hard to understand.

1:19.6

Things like, you know, buy me an RV, buy my mama house, those kinds of financial corruption

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