Good morning, im melissa harrisperry. We begin this morning with a story thats hard to hear but necessary to discuss. Now, im going to be referring to this clock behind me, okay, dont get too distracted by it. Ill bring it back whenever we need it. The state of oklahoma was scheduled to execute two convicted murderers, Clayton Lockett and charles warner. Tha their crimes were heinous. The inmates challenged the execution claiming that they had the right to know the source of the drugs. A District Court judge ruled on march 26th that the secrecy law signed by governor mary fallon in 2011 was unconstitutional. But after the States Supreme Court granted a stay of the executions on april 22nd so that it could rule on the issue of secrecy, the governor responded, saying the court had acted, quote, outside of its constitutional authority. At the same time a fellow republican in the state house began working on a bill to impeach the five justices who voted for the stay. The state Supreme Cour
But the special elections that weve had so far in the trump era to replace those four people who left the house in order to join the administration, those have been interesting races so far. Republicans held on to both ryan zinke state and the mike pompeo state in kansas. But in both of those cases voters swung double digits in the democrats direction. Compared to novembers election result with bs the democrat in the Montana District did like 14 points better than the president ial race had gone for democrats in that state. In the kansas race, the kansas democrat did 20 points better than the democrats had done in the president ial results in that district. So 14point democratic swing, a 20point democratic swing. In both of those cases, though, those seats were republican enough that even swings that much in the democrats direction were not enough to flip the seat and the republicans ultimately won both of those races in montana and in kansas. Now, tonight its South Carolina and georgi
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