president visits the capitol, plus, the legendary brian stephen son about the culture war on education on racism and why joe biden should take a page from the trump playbook as ford makes an announcement on electric car. i think we can say, it s the eighth wonder of the world. this is eighth wonder of the world. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today we learned that supreme court justice brett cavanaugh has tested positive for covid. now the good news is he is fully vaccinated. thankfully. according to a statement from the court, he has no symptoms, and he was tested as part of the routine screening yesterday. i have to say, every time i hear about a break-through case like this, someone vaccinated. of course, i feel sorry for the person who is sick. but relief that they are vaccinated. just two days ago cavanaugh participated in a 3 mile charity
of course, just last month, the court 5 of the 4 justices, all a conservatives failed to enjoin a blatantly unconstitutional law in texas that pro hibtss all that prohibits all abortions. there s women who are pregnant in texas, right now, who cannot secure their constitutional rights. so, yes, when you look at that i think it s not surprising that people are not super psyched about the court. but here s the thing. people s criticisms of the court are landing. and on so the justices are getting defensive. yesterday it was the right wing justice, sam yell alito, who is suffering from an acute case of fox news brain. he lashed out at the critics of the court, particularly critics
progress and they both join me now. i am not quite sure where to start on this. but i think i want to start on the, on the it s working part of this melissa. it s striking to me the defensiveness. i mean, samuel alito to get up in notre dame law school and go after a piece in the atlantic about the court s failure to enjoin the, you know, texas is really striking. i want to play for you what he said and get your response to it, take a listen to what he said. here is a line from a recent piece talking about our refusal to grant an injection in the texas abortion case. quote, the conservative majority on the supreme court was so eager to nullify roe v. wade that it did not wait for oral argument. end quote. now, put aside the false and inflammatory claim that we nullified roe v. wade, we did no
bush-v-gore. this court, is the product of the unprecedented historically unprecedented, total obstruction of president obama merrick garland and the rushing through of amy coney barrett before ruth bader ginsburg s body was in the ground. it s a trump/mcconnell court, it s a historical fact about the court s make up. on top of that, there s the fact that the court is very obviously hostile to the reproductive rights enshrined in roe v. wade and later in casey. this up coming term, they will be hearing arguments from a case from mississippi that could overturn roe and keep in mind, it s a case they had no reason to case other than the opportunity to gut or overrule roe. so we know what they are doing.
tell us, we on the supreme court are not political, how about acting like it? we can all see what s going on here. it goes back to 2000, bush v. gore when the five conservatives took this side and the five liberals took that side. we can do the math on that. we saw it again a couple weeks ago abwith the texas abortion case. the five justices, well, we can t touch it because of procedural issues, happened to be five conservative justices that most of whom are on record as being, you know, in favor of striking down roe v. wade. we can t ignore that. so he talked about his experience growing up in segregated georgia in the 50s and 60s. let s listen. there was, of course, pervasive segregation and race-based laws which were repulsive and at odds with the principles of our country. despite that, there was a deep and abiding love for our country