criminal investigations, civil inquiries, his party has flown embraced an anti-democrati anti-semitic, and in some case conservative supreme court too away the 50-year-old constitutional right to an abortion we ll get to all of that and more tonight, but we begin a the end of this year, and th historic results for the midterm election democrats gained a seat in the senate, and republicans manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory historically, midterm election have been outright disastrou for a first term president,and the party in power as msnbc political commentator democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 4 house seats in five senate seats. since watergate, the results have looked even worse for the party. democratic presidents in their first midterms have 44 house seats and six senat seats. many political observers o both sides of the aisle were expecting a political bloodbat on the level of, say, 1994 s republican
embraced an anti-democrati anti-semitic, and in some case conservative supreme court too away the 50-year-old constitutional right to an abortion we ll get to all of that and more tonight, but we begin a the end of this year, and th historic results for the midterm election democrats gained a seat in the senate, and republicans manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory historically, midterm election have been outright disastrou for a first term president, an the party in power as msnbc political commentator democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 4 house seats in five senate seats. since watergate, the results have looked even worse for the party. democratic presidents in their first midterms have 44 house seats and six senat seats. many political observers o both sides of the aisle were expecting a political bloodbat on the level of, say, 1994 s republican revolution, for instance when democrats lost 52 house seats an
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i think that has shifted, an that approval rating is on element of it. and even for moderates, becaus i think the clear message is that you can have ideology on court where the expectation wa rule of law. and that is a shift that peopl because they see it and we l time - the other thing about it, announcing like you said before, announced in dobbs, there s th right thing, and then there this sort of meta issue abou precedent. this to me is the other bi thing. the only thing that makes th supreme court different in a functional sense from legislature of mine is they ar bound by something other than, well, now kevin mccarthy run the house. yesterday, nancy pelosi ran. that s how legislators work an its democracy. but to the extent that you wholesale throw that out charles, you can t pretend t mean what you re doing anythin other than legislating you are correct it is interesting, m
criminal evidence, - no criminal defendant anywhere in history has ever gotten for any reason, overruled not an appeal to the supreme court. but here s the thing, to you point, charles what s so scary is that it s lake, you just need five brain warm folks on the supreme cour who are just ingesting the worst media in the universe to go along with it, and then that s the law, and. you as someone who s devoted his life to the law, how do yo get up in the morning i m serious! i think about the law in those terms? look, i ve reviewed thi when bush v. gore, where tha decision - very hard to sort of wake up t the next day and say, oh - lawyer in a functioning court. i know judges had the same view, which is how to actually d this when the supreme court is not a model of the rule of law i do think here original point there s an irony here, which i