criminal investigations, civil inquiries, his party has flown embraced an anti-democrati anti-semitic, and in some case conservative supreme court too away the 50-year-old constitutional right to an abortion we ll get to all of that and more tonight, but we begin a the end of this year, and th historic results for the midterm election democrats gained a seat in the senate, and republicans manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory historically, midterm election have been outright disastrou for a first term president,and the party in power as msnbc political commentator democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 4 house seats in five senate seats. since watergate, the results have looked even worse for the party. democratic presidents in their first midterms have 44 house seats and six senat seats. many political observers o both sides of the aisle were expecting a political bloodbat on the level of, say, 1994 s republican
embraced an anti-democrati anti-semitic, and in some case conservative supreme court too away the 50-year-old constitutional right to an abortion we ll get to all of that and more tonight, but we begin a the end of this year, and th historic results for the midterm election democrats gained a seat in the senate, and republicans manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory historically, midterm election have been outright disastrou for a first term president, an the party in power as msnbc political commentator democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 4 house seats in five senate seats. since watergate, the results have looked even worse for the party. democratic presidents in their first midterms have 44 house seats and six senat seats. many political observers o both sides of the aisle were expecting a political bloodbat on the level of, say, 1994 s republican revolution, for instance when democrats lost 52 house seats an
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time - the other thing about it, announcing like you said before, announced in dobbs, there s th right thing, and then there this sort of meta issue abou precedent. this to me is the other bi thing. the only thing that makes th supreme court different in a functional sense from legislature of mine is they ar bound by something other than, well, now kevin mccarthy run the house. yesterday, nancy pelosi ran. that s how legislators work an its democracy. but to the extent that you wholesale throw that out charles, you can t pretend t mean what you re doing anythin other than legislating you are correct it is interesting, m professors would often say the supreme court is not las because they are always right, they are always last that is the thing that peopl have to remember when you are looking at it fro any sort of overall sense of judgment, a place of judgmen