American fan base. All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a busy tuesday night. And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 523 of the Trump Administration. Were going to have the latest about what happened in the Supreme Court today in just a moment, but we want to begin with some breaking political news on this tuesday primary night. It is easily the most shocking result of this political season thus far. Veteran new york city democratic congressman joe crowley has gone down to primary defeat tonight at the hands of a hardleft, 28yearold opponent named alexandria ocasiocortez. This is her First Campaign of any kind for political office. Crowley has been in congress representing parts of queens and the bronx coming up on 20 years, and heres the important part. Hes number four on the democratic leadership chart. Crowley had aspirations to someday be speaker of the house. And after he sent a standin to represent him at a recent debate, the New
Redhot ones in this ruling today from virginia. Those really are strange comments from that judge. Its as if he is running for a Supreme Court seat that could open at some point. At one point he edit would have been better to handle this matter with a Bipartisan Commission in Congress Rather than appointing a special counsel. Really . Who asked you. But the important thing is he ruled in favor of the special prosecutor. Yes. Thats the important thing. Unequivocally. I think what lawyers will tell you is when they encounter a judge who is clearly leaning against them, it just means they have to be so much better in court. Yeah. They know that if the ball is on the corner of the plate, the judge is not going to call it a strike. He is always going to lean one way. So they just have to be perfect. And that is a performative judge. We noerve says he really likes to show off. He likes to get headlines. He likes to get his name in the paper. He has gotten all this praise from President Trump
Germanamericans and italianamericans didnt all get put into internment camps during world war ii, right . They werent rounded up, the germans and italians in this country. Of the axis powers, it was only the japaneseamericans that got put in internment camps en masse in world war ii. Why was that . Why was it just them . In 1982, a legal historian lawyer named peter irons was going through boxes of government documents. He was researching the origins of that world war ii policy in which the u. S. Government locked up japanese americans. Much to his surprise, peter irons stumbled upon a whole bunch of evidence on where that policy came from. It was evidence that had been lost to history. It had never been made part of the official record, never been made part of the government record, the historical record or the legal record of where that policy came from. Fdr made an executive order to lock up japanese americans in february, 1942. That executive order cited military necessity as the r
For us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence, good evening, rachel. Those really are strange comments from that judge. Its as if he is running for a Supreme Court seat that could open at some point. At one point he edit would have been better to handle this matter with a Bipartisan Commission in Congress Rather than appointing a special counsel. Really . Who asked you. But the important thing is he ruled in favor of the special prosecutor. Yes. Thats the important thing. Unequivocally. I think what lawyers will tell you is when they encounter a judge who is clearly leaning against them, it just means they have to be so much better in court. Yeah. They know that if the ball is on the corner of the plate, the judge is not going to call it a strike. He is always going to lean one way. So they just have to be perfect. And that is a performative judge. We noerve says he really likes to show off. He likes to get he
Plus, all talk, no action . In about 30 minutes, we expect a vote on immigration in the house, but with all the attention weve seen at the border, it doesnt look like republicans in congress have the votes to mak any r change. And comic relief. While the president takes aim at latenight comedians, they may be the ones getting the la laugh. We begin with a series of setbacks and defeats that have translated into a rough 24 hours for the democratic par establishment. Dealing a major blow to unions. Tweeting, a big loss for the democrats coffers. This, one day after the Supreme Court sided against democrats and with the president on his travel ban and abortion. And late last night, upsets stunni stunning. Even the winner couldnt believe it. Voters sending a strong message to the Party Establishment ousting a powerful tenterm democratic congressman in favor of a virtually unknown political newcomer, whom he outspent by the way, 181 joe crowley, touted as a possible successor to nancy pelos