national political reporter. that is our show for tonight. time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. lawrence, i m gobsmacked by some of these numbers. i m just gonna leave it to you while i scratch my head. ali, you know that thing happens once in a while where one of our great guests really is getting warmed up right when we have to go to commercial break because that s life on commercial television? that happened last week with yale professor david blight, who is an expert on the 14th amendment. he knows everything about how it came to be, the congressional debate about it. we are bringing him back tonight to finish his thoughts about that. that is worth watching because the most important amendment nobody ever thought about six months ago, and this is worth staying and listening to. certainly not thought about in this context. and he will follow harvard law professor laurence tribe, also an expert on constitutional law and the 14th amendment, who will give us
to rush off the house floor where george santos just spoke, just spoke in his own defense against the expulsion resolution introduced by dan goldman. now there has been a second. he has had two expulsion resolutions introduced against him on the same day, today, and he set a record, once again, today. he has been setting records, not for expulsion votes but for other things, and i m eager to hear this discussion, lawrence. i m eager to know whether george santos mentioned his storied volleyball career. i ll save it for later in the show. and alex, by the time you get home, you ll be able to turn on your tv and see me do something i have not done on tv in many years. are we finally get to see you juggle? i m gonna walk. i haven t gotten out of this desk in many years. we used to have a giant studio on the other side of the hall. i remember. and there used to be a certain amount of walking and demonstrating things on the giant board. we do have another section of th
chatted with my friend and colleague chris hayes about my new book prequel. it was a life taping of his podcast in front of an audience a town hall in new york. it was tons of fun. we shot it as a tv show. it is now available to watch, to stream on peacock. the easiest way to find it is to go to the peacock up on your tv, on your phone, or on your computer. just search maddow. the top results should be this little illustration with our faces on it. if you click on that, you can watch that really cool thing. peacock, it s up there right now. that does it for us tonight. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. rachel, i m so happy that the lawyer s guilt has been able to organize with our coworkers here. as a member of the guild myself, for longer than some of these new members have been alive, i mean, i m very happy to see them teaming up. and, rachel, before you go, this episode of the last word tonight, i mean, you know what? don
but she was right in suspending the effect of her decision pending an appeal to the superior court of maine, recognizing that she doesn t have unilateral authority to make this decision. donald trump s new main lawyer is leaning on the statutes in maine, saying that those statutes only give the secretary of state authority to do things like make sure he has enough signatures to be on the ballot, requires thousands of signatures, make sure his address is correct, kind of clerical things like that in his application to be on the ballot. and then the trump lawyer says, the secretary had no statutory authority to consider the challenges raised under section three of the 14th amendment. basically trying to treat the disqualification clause of section three, which is really central to the preservation of democracy from those who would overturn it as a kind of second class status, not nearly as basic as residency or birth. it isn t.
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