And it is pretty clear those options are as i just outlined it. Does that mean he couldnt find trump in violation of some other statute that has not been briefed before him . Nobody has also said im not going to summarily find contempt. These are things you have to bring before me. He has made it very clear. These are not summary proceedings. Unless he actually does it in front of me, im not going to do it on my own volition. We could keep going. , we shouldnt. That will do it for us for now. Now it is time for the last word with our good friend lawrence odonnell. Good evening. Good evening, rachel. We have convened our own version of the last word Supreme Court. In it, including Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, Andrew Weissman is here with us. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has a few things to say about it too and he will be joining us. Looking forward to it, lawrence. We learned today the United States Supreme Court has two different kinds of justices. Justices who are trying to pro
weight, my weight, my phone rang during the show. that is 70 me. but it won t happen tonight. you know, lawrence, it has been a long week. it has, and that neil is going to join us tonight to talk about the supreme court decisions, and i need this. because i like neil gorsuch s. i don t know the difference between nitrous oxide and whatever the other thing is. which chris hayes and you both explain beautifully and i have already forgotten. but ■çhe is going to take me through it again. he is the guy to have. it is a big day at the high court, i will be watching. thanks, alex. have a great show. thank you. okay, 24 hours later, if you re ready for some calm analysis about what we all saw last night this is the place to be for the next hour. the very first thing you need to know about what we all saw last night is that most voters didn t see it. it was the lowest rated presidential debate in a very long time. it had the smallest audience of any first presid
latino and asian american students rise by 4 to 5% with each of those groups and see admissions among white students fall by 4%. so they re saying, look, other schools have done this. other schools have gotten rid of this unfair treatment. it s time for harvard to do the same. you know, in neil gorsuch s, i think, opinion on the affirmative action case, i see the ground work laid for this conversation about legacy admissions. is that right? do you remember reading this? yeah. look, flows naturally logically and legally from the opinion last week that legacy admissions are on their last legs. i guess i will say, though, two caveats. number one, the courts including the supreme court, are going apply more scrutiny to an explicit discriminatory system, affirmative action, whether one likes it or not. they explicitly say what s the person s race and assign certain value to that versus a system like this disparate impact. doesn t on its face say we re going to make differentiations.