insurrectionist. senate democrats now want a meeting with chief justice john roberts and dozens of house members are demanding a leader recuse himself from cases related to donald trump in january 6, one of those, congresswoman jasmine crockett, joins midlife unset. joyce vance tells us what to look for is the first criminal trial of a former president heads to the jury next week and why special counsel jack smith is taking bold new action in terms classify documents case. and, reality check. do you all really believe trumps rally in the bronx was about reaching out to black and latino voters? i don t. i am jonathan capehart. this is the saturday show. for decades, democrats have tried and failed to make the court a voting issue for its base. well, maybe this election cycle, they will succeed because this week in washington, we are seeing two very different visions for the american justice system. president biden reached a major milestone in his mission to diversify the feder
has the overturning of roe v. wade turned out to be worse than what you imagined it would be? well, the risks that i have seen over the last 20 years and that i ve been writing about and that culminate in policing the womb, reflect that, the kinds of dangerous and horror as we see in the 1980s and 90s, included black women being dragged out of hospitals and shackles and chains with bloody gowns while nobody was being paying attention, that the policing of their pregnancies could one day be part of the narrative of an anti-abortion movement. more of this is what it is that we re going to see. right now, there are women being prosecuted in ohio, a women being prosecuted because she had a miscarriage in a toilet and her toilet ransacked. these kind of dystopian or horrors were reserved in previous times for science fiction, and this is now american practice and politics across our country.
they were bedrocks of british identity in scotland. and in the 1980s and 90s, they were swept away. that s when england and scotland started to diverge politically, those shared values coming under strain. england embracing the radical new vision for the future offered by margaret thatcher. scotland repeatedly rejecting it. in that context, the independence movement reinvented itself, the snp talking the language of social democracy and greater equality. this appealed to old labour voters, and enthused the young. that realignment of loyalties happened under alex salmond s leadership. no one embodied it more fully the nicola sturgeon. but under her, there s been no further surge of support for independence. even the unpopularity of brexit here, and the toppling of four conservative prime ministers have moved the dial a few points at most. but drill down into the opinion polls that consistently show the country roughly divided
and when he was asked in the 1970s about scottish nationalism, he would say that he felt more in common with shipyard workers on merseyside and in southampton than he did with many of his fellow scots. back then, class solidarity nearly always trumped appeals to a distinct scottish national identity. those big industries, like the empire, were pan british enterprises. they were bedrocks of british identity in scotland. and in the 1980s and 90s, they were swept away. that s when england and scotland started to diverge politically, those shared values coming under strain. england embracing the radical new vision for the future offered by margaret thatcher. scotland repeatedly rejecting it. in that context, the independence movement reinvented itself, the snp talking the language of social democracy and greater equality. this appealed to old labour voters, and enthused the young. that realignment of loyalties happened under alex salmond s leadership. no one embodied it more fully
they were bedrocks of british identity in scotland. and in the 1980s and 90s, they were swept away. that s when england and scotland started to diverge politically, those shared values coming under strain. england embracing the radical new vision for the future offered by margaret thatcher. scotland repeatedly rejecting it. in that context, the independence movement reinvented itself, the snp talking the language of social democracy and greater equality. this appealed to old labour voters, and enthused the young. that realignment of loyalties happened under alex salmond s leadership. no one embodied it more fully the nicola sturgeon. but under her, there s been no further surge of support for independence. even the unpopularity of brexit here, and the toppling of four conservative prime ministers have moved the dial a few points at most. but drill down into the opinion polls that consistently show the country roughly divided 50 50 on independence.