Governor is calling a special legislative session to make sure President Biden will be on the ballot this fall. And louisiana will soon be the first state to classify apportion pills as controlled, dangerous substances. Well go through the legislation and its possible impact in novembers elections. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, may 24th. We made it to friday. It was in doubt there for a while. Thank goodness. Im jonathan lemire. Im alongside the bbcs katty kay. We are in for joe, mika, and willie. Good friday morning, katty. Yeah, news flash, donald trump knows how to put his trousers on. I think that is worth waiting for friday for. We now have that at least. I suppose we can put it in the appropriate context later, or we leave it out there like that and make people wonder just what he was talking about. Hanging, yeah. With us to dive into this important story, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and Associate Editor of the washington post, and msnbc political analy
officially add unhinged convicted felon who snapped after he lost the 2020 election to the list. that is how the current leader of the free world, president joe biden, describes his rival and his first expansive remarks taking down donald trump post trial, post conviction. the president taking the presumptive republican nominee on head on, for having made history in all of the wrong ways. for becoming the first ever ex-american president to become a convicted felon and for being the first convicted felon to then try to become president again. current president telling a crowd at a fund-raiser in connecticut last night that the 2024 election campaign had entered, quote, uncharted territory, with trump s criminal conviction. adding that as if the guilty verdict isn t disturbing enough, quote, more damaging is the all out assault donald trump is making on the american system of justice. echoing remarks president biden made last week, he called out trump s claims of a rigged just
decades and decades they ve been praying. and now those prayers have been answered through the generations of americans in the pro-life movement as a candidate in 2016, i promise to nominate judges and justices who would stand up for the original meaning of the constitution, and who would honestly and faithfully interpret the law as written. thanks to the courage found within the united states supreme court, this long, divisive issue will be decided by the states, and by the american people. that was donald trump, of course. that was him importantly in june of 2022. the day after the decision celebrating and taking credit for his singular role in taking away constitutional rights from generations of women for the first time ever. it s trump s doing.
founding principles, justice scalia has made a deep and lasting impact on the history of our nation. his presence is dearly missed by all, friend of a lot of people, truly great intellect. justice scalia transformed the american legal landscape igniting a national movement to apply the original meaning of the constitution has written. few have done more to uphold this nation s founding charter. through nearly 900 written opinions and more than 30 years on the bench, justice scalia defended the american system of government and preserved the foundation of american freedom. our whole nation is indeed indebted to justice scalia for his lifetime of noble and truly incredible service. joining us for this ceremony is
that you can buy a visa, come over here and have your baby in america and turn around and leave and you get citizenship through that process. i don t think that makes sense. well, it just raises all kinds of questions when you start fiddling with the constitution. these people love amendments. the second time. they love this country and love its constitution and all they have is about 50 amendments up their sleeve they always want to change it. it s like people that get married and say change. i love you and now it s time to change. joe, i love you but change. i love this country but change some things, like let s get rid of the 14th amendment. this is the second time this week, you know. they want to violate the first amendment, too. they want to take away the rights of muslims to freedom of worship by denying them the right to build a mosque in lower manhattan where they have every right to do it because they don t really like the first amendment either. now they don t like