I think the people that ride harleys are not happy with harley davidson. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Today was one of those days that crystallizes whats at stake in American Politics right now at this moment. The political cloelgs that controls all three branches of the federal government just took a major step to consolidate power. Leveraging an arguably stolen Supreme Court seat to validate the agenda of a president who we have to remember lost the popular vote Whose Campaign was backed by a foreign add ser vary possibly with his campaigns help and who in word and deed explicitly uses the power of his office exclusively for the benefit of the minority of the country that supports him. The Supreme Courtup head the president s ban on travel from a list of mostly muslim countries. The third version of a policy
refusing to hold hearings on his nominee. Today mcconnell tweeted a picture of himself shaking the justices hand because he knew what
Incivility blocked president barack obama from filling a vacant sprooem court seat refusing to hold hearings on his nominee. Today mcconnell tweeted a picture of himself shaking the justices hand because he knew what was going on. Everyone did. With its decision on the travel ban today, the republican controlled Supreme Court gives an effective green light to the president S Immigration agenda which im sure he receives as more than just about this case. That i amgration agenda lets remember until last week including tearing Migrant Children away from their parents at the border as a kind of punishment and deterrence and reportedly holding those children as hostages to force families to drop their asylum claims. Family separation policy appears to have been halted after overwhelming public backlash but and this is important, the vast majority of those children right now as i speak you to have yet to be reunited with their parents. The president has been quite
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he would be able to cause. that s incredibly well said. and when i think about this and you think about those behaviors they eem so obvious. and here you have today the court, this is what i found so fascinating about the court s decision today. if donald trump wasn t donald trump and president marco rubio on kay one puts in this ban, it almost certainly it s not even a question. the question is, does what this guy has said and the bigotry he s espoused taint in a kinds of unfixable way constitutionally this ban. we all saw it happen in realtime. it s remarkable you have gorsuch and roberts who is something you worked on his confirmation. i led the confirmation. beak doing a kind of sophisticated version of the paul ryan i didn t read the tweet. they all read the paper and so the facts of the case. the intent was perfectly clear. this was a religious test. this was a religious ban.
political power of their overwhelmingly white base still make up a small minority of the political class and of the country in general. but right now at this moment, they are the ones in charge. unless and until the bigger portion of the majority of the country mobilizes against them. i m joined by a member of the democratic party leadership, 2018 candidate for attorney general of minnesota, one of the few muslims serving on the hill, congress man keith ellison. your reaction to the majority opinion in which the chief justice says maybe he said nasty stuff but you have to look at the four squares of what s in there and it passes constitutional muster. well, it s really kind of a surprising and shocking decision because it s very clear that you can have a document that might be facially neutral but if its intent, purpose and expected application resolution discriminatory, that is going to pass constitutional muster. yet the supreme court said if they get a thin excuse for
that s incredibly well said. and when i think about this and you think about those behaviors and here you have today the court, this is what i found so fascinating about the court s decision today. if donald trump wasn t donald trump and president marco rubio on kay one puts in this ban, it almost certainly it s not even a question. the question is, does what this guy has said and the bigotry he s espoused taint in a kinds of unfixable way constitutionally this ban. we all saw it happen in realtime. it s remarkable you have gorsuch and roberts who is something you worked on his confirmation. i led the confirmation. beak doing a kind of sophisticated version of the paul ryan i didn t read the tweet. they all read the paper and so the facts of the case. the intent was perfectly clear. this was a religious test.