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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Will there be any recourse for apparent Supreme Court corruption?

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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4.53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with breaking news of a partial verdict in the trial of five members of the far-right group the Proud Boys for their involvement in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Also in this episode, yet another allegedly undisclosed big money gift to Justice Clarence Thomas from the same big-time Republican benefactor has been reported. Will there be any recourse at all for this apparent Supreme Court corruption? We bring you expert legal analysis. Plus, we bring attention to the tragic killing of Jordan Neely, a Black homeless man and Michael Jackson subway impersonator, who was put into a deadly chokehold by a White man who was questioned and released, with his name being withheld by authorities. Finally, Joy shares her conversation with soon-to-be 109-year-old Viola Fletcher and her 102-year-old brother Hughes Van Ellis, two of the last remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, who are in town to meet with the Justice Department. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Tonight on The Readout.

0:06.6

And now, after three trials, we have secured the convictions of leaders of both the proud

0:12.5

boys and the oath keepers for seditious conspiracy, specifically conspiring to oppose by force

0:20.9

the lawful transfer of presidential power.

0:25.1

Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.

0:28.6

Four members of Trump's MAGA Army, the proud boys, including leader and re-katerio, are

0:33.6

convicted of seditious conspiracy in the January 6th attack.

0:38.4

Also tonight yet another allegedly undisclosed big money gift to justice clearance Thomas

0:44.2

from the same big money Republican benefactor.

0:47.2

What is going on?

0:48.3

And will there ever be any recourse for this Supreme Court corruption?

0:52.4

Plus, my conversation would soon be 109-year-old Viola Fletcher and her 102-year-old brother

1:00.7

Hughes Van Ellis, two of the last remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, who are

1:07.3

in town to meet with the Justice Department.

1:11.3

But we begin tonight with the breaking news of a partial verdict in the trial of five

1:16.5

members of the far-right group, the proud boys, for their involvement in the January 6th

1:21.1

attack on the U.S. Capitol.

1:23.1

The jury found four of the defendants, including its former leader and former Florida director

1:28.0

of Latinos for Trump and re-katerio, guilty of the most serious charge seditious conspiracy,

1:34.7

as well as conspiracy to obstruct and official proceeding and, sorry, to obstruct an official

1:41.2

proceeding, reading as fundamental.

1:43.1

The seditious conspiracy charge alone comes with a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

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