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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow criticized the Supreme Court as “flagrantly corrupt,” highlighting concerns around Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito.
Her conversation on “The View” was filled with references to perceived ethical issues, such as Thomas accepting gifts and Alito’s controversial flag display post-Capitol riots.
Maddow questioned the court’s integrity, especially regarding Thomas’ wife’s involvement in election-related lobbying.
“The blatant corruption of a couple of these Supreme Court justices is John Roberts’ problem. He is the chief justice, he has to police it to save his court and to save the legal system,” Maddow said.
“I work at MSNBC. If there was a member of my family lobbying the White House chief of staff, saying, ‘overturn this election result,’ you think they’d let me cover that election result, let alone give a binding judicial ruling on that election result?” she said.
The Supreme Court has essentially already provided Trump with immunity, “because they’ve already delayed things so long that the stuff that he did in 2020, he’s not going to be tried for before he potentially gets back in the White House,” Maddow argued.
Despite some co-hosts defending the court’s recent abortion pill ruling, skepticism and lack of trust towards the Supreme Court were primarily expressed, emphasizing the importance of faith in judicial institutions amidst ongoing controversies and political tensions.
“It does restore a little bit of my faith in the court,” Sunny Hostin of “The View” said. “Because the legal standard is, do you have standing to bring a case? Can anybody bring a case in front of the Supreme Court? No. You have to prove that you have injuries resulting from it and so you’ve got a group of doctors and a group of citizens and all of these people bring this challenge to the FDA and say, we don’t want this pill.”
“We focus so much on the hot topics, on the results, rather than the legal reasoning and always call the judges conservative or liberal. It’s about the interpretation of the law, so reminding ourselves to have faith in this judicial [system], especially the Supreme Court, because it’s easy to attack them like regular politicians, but we need to remain faithful in our institutions. That’s why so many of us are scared,” co-host Sara Haines said.
“I don’t trust the whole thing,” co-host Joy Behar said.
“I don’t trust the courts. I don’t trust the extreme religious right. They want us in the kitchen with 10 kids that we can’t feed,” she said.
