>>> ON THE DAY WHEN PRESIDENT BIDEN GOT HIS 200th FEDERAL JUDGE CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE, ANOTHER FLAG WAS FOUND FLYING OVER ANOTHER HOME OF A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SIGNIFYING FULL SUPPORT FOR DONALD TRUMP'S ATTEMPT TO ILLEGALLY OVERTURN THE ELECTION AND FOR THE VIOLENT HORDE OF TRUMP SUPPORTERS WHO ATTACKED THE CAPITAL ON JANUARY 6. JUST ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE WORKPLACE OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. THIS SECOND FLAG WAS OWNED BY THE SAME SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WHO GOT CAUGHT LAST WEEK WITH THE FIRST FLAG. LAST WEEK THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTED JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO, APPOINTED BY GEORGE W. BUSH, REMEMBER, NOT DONALD TRUMP. GEORGE W. BUSH WAS CAUGHT FLYING THE AMERICAN FLAG UPSIDE DOWN AT HIS HOME A SHORT DRIVE FROM THE SUPREME COURT. TODAY THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTED THAT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO, APPOINTED BY GEORGE W. BUSH, NOT TRUMP, GEORGE W. BUSH, HAS BEEN FLYING ANOTHER FLAG AT HIS SUMMER HOME IN NEW JERSEY. THAT FLAG SAYS APPEAL TO HEAVEN. THE APPEAL TO HEAVEN FLAG WAS CARRIED BY RIOTERS AT THE CAPITAL ON JANUARY 6. ALSO KNOWN AS THE PINETREE FLAG, IT DATES BACK TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BUT LARGELY FELL INTO OBSCURITY IN RECENT YEARS AND IS NOW A SYMBOL OF SUPPORT FOR DONALD TRUMP FOR A RELIGIOUS STRAND OF THE STOP THE STEEL CAMPAIGN. JUSTICE ALITO WHO, LET ME REMIND YOU, WAS APPOINTED BY GEORGE W. BUSH, DECLINED TO RESPOND TO QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT FLAG AT HIS VACATION HOME. AFTER BLAMING HIS WIFE FOR TURNING THEIR AMERICAN FLAG UPSIDE DOWN AT THE OTHER HOME. I HAD NO INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER IN THE FLYING OF THE FLAG. IT WAS BRIEFLY PLACED BY A MISSES ALITO IN RESPONSE TO A NEIGHBOR'S USE OF OBJECTIONABLE LANGUAGE ON YARD SIGNS. GOOD LUCK MAKING SENSE OF THAT. ONLY IN THE PERVERSIONS OF SAMUEL ALITO'S BRAIN DOES IT MAKE PERFECT SENSE THAT WHEN YOUR NEIGHBOR BOTHERS YOU, YOUR WIFE OF COURSE TURNS YOUR AMERICAN FLAG UPSIDE DOWN. WE HAVE ALL KNOWN THAT IT IS AN OUTRAGE THAT THE MOST CORRUPTED JUDGE IN THE HISTORY OF THE SUPREME COURT, CLARENCE THOMAS, HAS NOT RECUSED HIMSELF FROM CASES INVOLVING DONALD TRUMP THAT DONALD TRUMP IS BROUGHT TO THE SUPREME COURT, TRYING TO GET IMMUNITY FOR HIS ATTEMPTS TO OVERTURN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. CLARENCE THOMAS HIS WIFE SUPPORTED EVERY ONE OF THOSE ATTEMPTS BY DONALD TRUMP. NOW WE KNOW THAT SAMUEL ALITO IS ALSO IN FULL VIOLATION OF THE JUDICIAL CODE OF ETHICS FOR FEDERAL JUDGES THAT WOULD APPLY TO ANY OTHER JUDGE, BECAUSE SAMUEL ALITO SHOULD ALSO BE RECUSED FROM ANY CASE INVOLVING DONALD TRUMP. NO MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE IN HISTORY HAS DONE MORE TO EXPOSE SCANDAL AND STRUCTURAL UNFAIRNESS AT THE SUPREME COURT THEN OUR NEXT GUEST. JOINING US NOW IS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR SHELDON WHITEHOUSE OF RHODE ISLAND. HE CHAIRS THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE FEDERAL COURTS AND IS ALSO THE AUTHOR OF THE SCHEME, HOW THE RIGHT-WING USED DARK MONEY TO CAPTURE THE SUPREME COURT. SENATOR WHITEHOUSE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR JOINING US. OF COURSE IT WOULD NOT BE JUST ONE FLAG. ONE FLAG WAS BAD ENOUGH, BUT HERE WE ARE AGAIN. >> HERE WE ARE AGAIN. IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO BE A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE FLYING ONE MAGA BATTLE FLAG AT YOUR HOUSE. YOU HAVE TO HAVE TWO HOUSES AND FLY TO BATTLE FLAGS, ONE AT EACH HOUSE. IT IS STUNNING AND IT IS THE KIND OF THING, AS YOU KNOW, FOR ANYBODY ELSE WOULD PROVOKE AN INVESTIGATION. AND ALL WE GET FROM JUSTICE ALITO ARE SELF-SERVING STATEMENTS ON FOX NEWS WHICH IS A FORUM IN WHICH YOU CAN LIE WITH IMPUNITY. YOU CAN MAKE IT UP. IT IS NOT AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT SUBJECT TO SANCTIONS IF YOU DID NOT TELL THE TRUTH AND NOW HE WON'T ANSWER AT ALL ABOUT THE BATTLE FLAG. SO IT ENCAPSULATES ALL THE PROBLEMS WE HAVE HAD WITH THE ROGUE SUPREME COURT AND ITS REFUSAL TO ACCEPT ANY RULE OF LAW. >> THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAYS JUSTICE ALITO MUST RECUSE HIMSELF IMMEDIATELY FROM CASES RELATED TO THE 2020 ELECTION IN JANUARY 6 INSURRECTION. HE ALSO CALLS ON THE CHIEF JUSTICE FOR DAMAGING THE COURT AND IMMEDIATELY ENACT AN ENFORCEABLE CODE OF CONDUCT. RECUSAL USED TO BE SOMETHING THAT YOU COULD REASONABLY RELY ON SUPREME COURT JUSTICES TO USE WITH WISDOM. IT WAS RARELY USED AND RARELY REQUIRED, BUT USED OFTEN ENOUGH THAT WE COULD SEE IT AS SOMETHING THAT WORKED. BUT NOT ANYMORE. >> NO, AND ONE INTERESTING FEATURE OF THE RECUSAL REQUIREMENT IS THAT IT IS A LAW PASSED BY CONGRESS, SPECIFICALLY APPLICABLE TO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. WHEN THEY PAY NO ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY ARE VIOLATING STATUTORY LAW. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THESE RULES THAT THE SUPREME COURT OR JUDICIAL BRANCH COME UP WITH FOR THEMSELVES SO THEY CAN SAY THIS IS JUST JUDICIAL STUFF. YOU LEGISLATORS, RUN ALONG. NO, THIS IS THE LAW OF THE LAND PASSED BY CONGRESS AND THEY ARE FLOUTING IT. >> CAN THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE DEMAND TESTIMONY FROM JUSTICE ALITO OR JUSTICE THOMAS? >> THEY HAVE BEEN VERY RELUCTANT TO AND THEY WAIVED SEPARATION OF POWERS AROUND TO TRY TO STOP US FROM SPEAKING TO THEM. BUT I THINK IT HAS GOTTEN TO THE POINT WHERE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HAS TO ENGAGE, AND I THINK YOU WILL SEE MORE ACTION ON THAT SHORTLY OUT OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. I THINK THAT THE CONFERENCE CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED TO ENGAGE FURTHER. A PANEL OF SENIOR FEDERAL JUDGES OVERSEAS THE JUDICIAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT AND HAS THE AUTHORITY TO LOOK INTO THINGS LIKE WHEN THE DISCLOSURES WERE UNLAWFUL AND WILLFUL AND WHETHER THERE IS VIOLATION OF ETHICS NORMS. >> THE REASON I KEPT REPEATING THE GEORGE W. BUSH APPOINTED SAMUEL ALITO IS I FEAR THAT TOO MANY PEOPLE CAN THINK THIS IS A PROBLEM CREATED BY DONALD TRUMP. EVERY REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT OF OUR LIFETIMES HAS APPOINTED SOMEONE, AT LEAST ONE JUSTICE TO THE SUPREME COURT WHO HAS DONE SERIOUS DAMAGE TO THE WAY WE LIVE AND HAS TRIED TO DO MORE DAMAGE TO THE WAY WE LIVE. FROM CLARENCE THOMAS, BY THE FIRST PRESIDENT BUSH. THIS NOTION THAT THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT BLOSSOMED DURING TRUMP IS SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE WORKED VERY HARD TO EXPOSE, EVEN BEFORE THE TRUMP JUSTICES TOOK THEIR SEATS. >> NO, YOU ARE RIGHT. THIS GOES WAY BACK TO THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE OF THE APPOINTMENT OF JUSTICE ALITO. ACTUALLY LEONARD LEO, THE OPERATIVE OF THE KOCH BROTHERS AND CREEPY BILLIONAIRES WHO HAVE BEEN MEDDLING IN THE COURT. YOU WILL REMEMBER THAT BUSH ORIGINALLY WANTED TO APPOINT HIS LEGAL COUNSEL, HIS FRIEND, FELLOW TEXAN, CONSERVATIVE WOMAN LAWYER TO REPLACE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, HARRIET MYERS. HE GOT ATTACKED NOT BY DEMOCRATS. HE GOT ATTACKED BY THE FAR RIGHT BILLIONAIRES AND HE, HUMILIATINGLY, HAD TO WITHDRAW HIS OWN NOMINATION AND
