thanks, rachel. all right, that is going to do it for us for now. i will see you again on monday. it will be back here for the rachel maddow show monday night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. good evening, lawrence. it was, i believe, 53 long days ago when i was running through the hallways here with this leaked opinion that i couldn t believe that i was holding. you had one, and just the shock of having a leaked supreme court opinion, and then, getting it today was also shocking because the stuff that we and others pointed out in it, that could easily have been cut, was still in there. the quoting, you know, these guys from the 16 hundreds in england, who thought witches should be tried and executed. the witch trial moral authorities are still in this opinion. they are still being quoted as guidance for samuel alito. yeah, justice alito, and the majority, they were not taking pains to make sure that this would be broadly
and i think that s, i think, part of the reason that you ve had so much discussion today about what s next, because if they re willing to do this on this, which they knew would be the most divisive possible thing in the country, obviously, they would do it on things for what they think they had even more leeway to operate. that, we don t care element to this is, i think, gonna be a profoundly important part of the way this changes the country. and when you think of the presidents who made this happen, beginning with ronald reagan, but more importantly now, george h. w. bush, because he has clarence thomas on the supreme court, and the reagan justice there right now. but from george w. bush, to ronald reagan and donald trump, it is just a statistic statistical likelihood without even getting into their life histories. it s a statistical likelihood that it least one of them has personally, in some sense, participated in an abortion, possibly by paying for it. as is very commo
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