society. then adam surber on the right wing defensive a racist conspiracy in the wake of buffalo. the replacement of legacy americans for more beating people from faraway countries. plus, jaw-dropping new data on the explosion of handguns in america, new polling that can give hope democrats in the midterms, and ahead of the next big primary in georgia have the disgraced ex president is chucking an old friend under the bus. david, david, david david so well he s a respected and loved by everybody. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas was intimately involved with plotting and promoting donald trump s co-. with each piece of evidence that we get it becomes harder, and harder to understand how the supreme court justice himself is not completely compromised. we know that ginni thomas promoted and attempted to attend that rally, that preceded the actual physical insurrection on januar
all of these people, in donald trump s orbit, won a republican controlled state legislatures in states where joe biden won, to pull off the coup by telling the voters that the politicians, not the people who actually voted, they decide who gets elected president. they were going to ranch that power away from the citizens, now, this is obviously a ludicrous idea that s totally offensive to our notions of democracy in the rule of law. first of all, state legislators are bound by the very laws they pass, in the states the law says that the winner of the popular vote gets the electoral slate. but here is where things get interesting, there is a fringe link theory called the independent state legislature doctrine that supports the idea that state legislators can just be like, no, no we pick the president. as scotus blog describes, the constitution and state legislators not state courts, the power to regulate federal
pandemic. a meta-something that asian americans across the country have been feeling. jesse: i want to teleport myself to the briefing and say can you point to any evidence that anybody was motivated by the covid-19 lab link theory? to smash some asian woman in the head with a baseball bat? jeanine: you actually have to add some circumstantial evidence to point that it is based upon hate. in this case based upon donald trump saying it s a coronavirus from china. greg: especially if you see this is a problem which is the political problem it s what they always do. if they make it up. she is a huge problem for saying that. there are women being murdered, i just can t imagine homeless men standing around scrolling on their iphone saying [laughs] did you see what donald trump said about the lab leaks let s go beat up an asian woman. how insulting to the family of that dead woman that you ve a political leader who represents the party who goes up there.