'BradCast' 4/11/2022 (Guest: John Nichols of The Nation on the corruption of Clarence Thomas)

Published: April 12, 2022, 2:03 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 The corruption never ends and will only get far worse until someone finally faces accountability. The State Department reports it has no record of gifts from foreign leaders to Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and other administration officials during Trump's final year in office, while a different office reported a four-year gap in records tracking gifts from foreign leaders to Trump during his entire term. New revelations show that Trump's son, Don Jr., texted Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows with steps for stealing the 2020 election before the race had been called.\\xa0 Ginni Thomas, the far-right activist wife of corrupt Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent similar messages to Meadows, urging the administration to steal the election for Trump, even as her husband heard numerous election lawsuits also seeking to overturn the election.\\xa0 JOHN NICHOLS of The Nation explains why Justice Thomas should be the subject of an impeachment inquiry in Congress - - not only because he was the lone dissenting vote in a ruling that could have shielded his wife from potential scrutiny by the House January 6 committee, but also over a number of conflicts of interest over his many decades on the nation's highest court. Nichols also addresses options to enforce conflict-of-interest rules for Supreme Court justices, why it is crucial to investigate and pursue accountability for blatant acts of corruption by public officials even if it doesn't lead to removal, and more..."