on the history under attack this juneteenth, how the bible got removed from schools in utah, and why conservatives are now wooing muslims after decades of hate. as catholics and other christians, other people of faith have been waiting for the muslims to step up on this issue and so many others. when all in starts, right now. good evening from washington d. c. i m mehdi hassan in for chris hayes. today, a federal judge ordered donald j trump to not to speak publicly about evidence in the classified documents case special counsel jack smith earlier this month. the order prohibits the exokxdif you violate these rules trump could face contempt of court or other civil or criminal sanctions. now, please forgive me, while i left my head off at the idea of donald trump promising not to post anything on social media. what a promise that will be. as we all know he has a, shall we say, difficult time keeping his mouth shut. as well as a long history of abusing and threatening jud
collision course for the u.s. supreme court and those colorado democrat justices who took aim at the former president. it is set to be an unprecedented showdown after colorado s highest court called trump an insurrectionist and wiped him off the state s primary ballot. i am harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. republicans are saying it s anti-american. and a huge danger to our democracy. colorado could be just the beginning. legal efforts to disqualify the former president are now underway in more than a dozen states. here is a look. the courts don t decide who will be on the ballot. this is the worst case of judicial activism that i ve ever seen. i think the supreme court will take it up and say it is ridiculous because it is. harris: even trump s critics are coming to his defense. former republican governor of ohio john kasich. you have a partisan court all democrats. they barely could say that he should be disqualified. think about the precedent o
so maybe it s time to update that meme, i never thought they would ban my favorite book, sobs woman who voted for the book banning party. state representative before running for office she was a high school teacher and she joins me now. representative moss thanks for coming on the show what is your reaction to the king james bible being taken out of some utah school libraries? do you support that move on the basis of, i don t know, consistency if republicans are going to ban books with vulgarity or sex in them? yes it was consistent. and by the way i was an english teacher, i taught literature and writing and i sometimes talk a unit called bible as literature. but the person who fired filed this challenge just put it out there to see if they would follow the same process and see what they are doing to other books. and boy did the lawmakers, the republicans take the bait. and all this outrage they expressed in meetings, and not just outrage but actual threats
it s an adage that is been proved relevant time and again. the american right is forced to reckon with the consequences of its own action. particularly in utah where republicans passed a law banning books in school libraries that contain pornographic or indecent content. and wouldn t you know that that very low is now being used to restrict access to, wait for it, the bible. with the holy book in one hand and signs on the other, frustrated parents calling out the recent decision by davis school district that voted to remove the king james version of the bible from elementary and middle school libraries. the move coming after a complaint was filed with the district in december when the district received an anonymous grievance that said the school district was adored, quote, one of the most six written books around, the bible. adding that this edition of the bible, quote, has no serious values for minors because it s pornographic, by our new definition. get this porn out of our sch