four. with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. w, igood evening good evenin, rachel. i will be on the port side of the vote from where you from where you will be sitting. what s a shocker. i mean, this committee has been very carefully scheduling. and then, the only thing they were doing with the schedule was pushing it further out. and actually, in effect, giving us bigger breaks. just suddenly, i have to jump to position for a hearing from this committee. by the way, for any committee, i mean scheduling a hearing overnight, that s just the rarest thing in committee world. so why do you think there is why is there a rush. i mean, if they got something new, obviously, they could ve factored it into the readings that they ve already scheduled for july. they could ve factored into hearings they have scheduled a week from now. why, what could possibly explain where there is a rush to get the new evidence, get the new witness testimony before the american public
today sworn in as the nation s 116th justice, and the first black woman ever to serve on the high court. her husband, dr. patrick jackson held two bibles on which she swore a family bible, and the court s harlan bible. a court federal appeals judge, jackson replaced justice stephen breyer, who stepped down today after three decades on the bench, justice breyer hired ketanji brown jackson as a clerk in 1999, making it a full circle moment when he administered the judicial oath to her today. a formal investiture for justice jackson is expected in the fall we can call her that now, justice jackson. taking her oath today allows her to begin her judicial duties. she arrives on the bench in the wake of several hugely polarizing decisions, issued by the court on abortion, gun rights, and today s ruling limiting the epa s authority to fight climate change. we are going to have much more on that ruling specifically, and on the future of the court, and its newest member just ahead. b
why do you think there is why is there a rush? i mean, if they got something new, obviously, they could ve factored it into the readings that they ve already scheduled for july. they could ve factored it into hearings they have scheduled a week from now. why, what could possibly explain why there is a rush to get the new evidence, get the new witness testimony before the american public, urgently on zero notice? and here we crash into the limits on my ability to guess. [laughs] but here s what i think is really striking about it, rachel. some of these members, adam schiff, had to travel across the country for this. so, when they re in recess, it s extremely difficult to bring them back. one of the things that really strikes me about this is there is a big difference in a situation like this for the members, say, traveling from wyoming. there is a big difference between tuesday and wednesday. if you can just i mean, if you can just say wednesday, it would be a huge dif
office, and it just took us long to get there. i remember saying on our air, in 2018, when justice kennedy retired, that one of the consequences of that would be that abortion would be illegal in half the country within two years. and i was wrong, it was four years. but the fact that this is foretold doesn t make it any less shocking. i m gonna go watch your show now. thanks, chris. good to see you, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for being with us this hour. it s a big day. when the supreme court first handed to overturn the decision in roe, just shy of 50 years ago, it s not that it was not controversial when it happened. there were definitely people who are opposed to the roe v. wade decision in 1973, in particular the catholic church, would always been staunchly anti abortion. but it wasn t as controversial in 1973 yesterday s politics about what it might make you think. for example, it was not a particularly controversial decision among american eva
wasn t as constitutional then today might make you think. for example, it was not a particularly controversial decision among american evangelicals. the southern baptist convection, they adopted pro abortion resolutions regularly during the 1970s and the december baptist. when roe was handed down, the southern baptist convention welcomed and explained why. he said i felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person and always been for seem to me that when it is best for the mother in the future it should be allowed. southern baptist convention. we re on roe versus wade and also really a genius between the political parties there were a lot of pro-choice republicans. republican governors were at the forefront of decriminalizing in that states in the 1960s including the governor of california ronald reagan. in 1967, governor reagan signed into law the so it s not there was not disagreements over abortion o