Conservatives. Swing vote, a term he hated. He said cases swing, i dont. But still he was the swing vote on Campaign Finance, Voting Rights and more. As our corporate cousins report this afternoon, on the conservative side of the ledger, Justice Kennedy was part of the majorities that loosened Campaign Finance restrictions, recognized individual gun ownership rights and decided that Voting Rights protection dating to the jim crow era were too heavy handed on states in the modern day south. He wrote the 2010 opinion on Citizens United versus federal elections commission. That struck down longstanding restrictions on corporate and Union Political spending in elections. He was also part of the 54 conservative majority in bush v. Gore that resolved the dispute in the year 2000 president ial election. Justice kennedy joined with his liberal colleagues on array of rulings that will define his legacy. None more so than on gay rights. In 2015, he wrote the 54 ruling establishing that same sex
American conversation that were listening in on these parents talking to their children across these borders of these countries. Amazing. Well done, my friend. Thank you, rachel. Thanks. As rachel pointed out, it only takes one. And this is going to be a different take on how it only takes one and what that means. One senator can stop the nomination of the next Supreme Court justice. One perfectly placed senator, republicans have a 5149 majority on the senate floor, but senator john mccain is too ill to vote which means republicans have a one vote advantage on the floor, 50 49 but when the first vote came up, three democrats voted for neil gorsuch. Heidi hide camp in north dakota where the president visited tonight campaigning against her and where donald trump won by 36 points. Joe manchin in West Virginia and joe donelly in indiana, all three of them voted for neil gorsuch. But this time everything could be different. If one senator does what he has promised to do. A retiring senator
Its time for a. M. Joy with my good friend joy reed. Once i had kids those personal envisions really subsided and i just focused on policy ambitions and it just changed my focus in life from career to family and im speaker of the house. I wasnt necessarily planning this but whats important to me is my family and i believe i can be a great policy maker advocating for the believes and the ideals that i have without sacrificing my higher priority which is just to have a good family life. Well, happy fathers day and welcome to a. M. Joy. To borrow a phrase from rachel maddow, watch what they do, not what they say. Ryan and many of his fellow republicans, the party that used to lay claim of being the party of family values are indeed many of them fathers and mothers and grandparents and they say theyre opposed to the Trump Administrations policy of separating Migrant Children from their parents. The religious leaders have come out and said this is unhumane. Do you agree . We dont want kid s
And Rudy Giuliani walking back comments on who could be pardoned when the russia investigation concludes. In the six weeks since the Trump Administration began enforcing the policy, more than 2,000 children have been separated from their families after crossing the southern border. Thats led to an overflow at detention centers. They are at 95 capacity. Although it was the Trump Administration that championed the crackdown on the border, President Trump insists repeatedly and erroneously that it is the democrats to blame. Heres one of his most recent falsehoodfilled tweets. Democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the border by working with republicans on new legislation for a change. And a cnn report about a baby ripped from her mothers arms as she was being breast fed. Or a picture from the New York Times of a toddler sobbing as her mother is searched at the border. Well, today at this very moment, President Trump is golfing. Hes at his Virginia Golf Club on this, the 158th da
Bear, go away bear, go away go away. Neil bear go away indeed thats a metaphor for the markets. You can see what we did there. Its easier said than done to chase a bear goodbye or tell a market bear not to visit at all. Were all over the bear implications because it was not the reaction most expected. With Kristina Partsinevelos on what has wall street worrying, deidra bolton on whether consumers should be freting and how the white house is responding. Kristina . A perfect segue with the bears. You had the fed that alluded to a cautious approach. But not drastic enough. You saw drastic swings. More than 600 points on the dow alone. Closed down 1. 5 . The nasdaq also down over 2 and the s p 500 over a percentage and a half. So you have these swings that seem to be happening. If you look at the intraday and well bring that up, you have the fed already pretty much investors baking in the fact that there was going to be an Interest Rate hike. That was in the markets. We saw positive territ