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president trump on this decision. welcome to the program. glad to have you. great to be here. sean: you and a lot of prominent judicial scholars were asked to look for certain candidates that fit this meaning of a constitutionalist, and originalist. maybe some americans are hearing this term for the first time. how would you best define those terms and differentiate a regionalism from judicial activism? first of all, the way to think about it is a judge has a deep sense of fairness and a sense of impartiality. when he is grounded in text and original meaning of the constitution, she is putting the text and the original meeting ahead of any political predisposition he may have. that s the way a judge cases. fairly and partially without regard to your own predispositions or prejudices. sean: a judicial activist assembly of a liberal put a liberal would want on the court? somebody believes that the constitution is a living and breathing document that they have the right ....
this is what we do. we protest when we disagree and i don t think there s any reason for people to be told to come together and support this if they don t believe in it. i m not suggesting support tonight s nominee but don t plan the protest before you know who the nominee is. and that is where we are. we re at the point of transparent obstruction on both sides, olivia nuzzi and david jolly, thank you. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening. thanks, my friend. thank you for joining us at this hour. this is a big important historic news day. good to have you here. thank you for watching the news on a night like this and thank you for watching it here. antonin scalia, nino to his friends, he was beloved by his fellow supreme court justices. even the justices who disagreed with h the most, perhaps escially the justices who disagreed with him the most in terms of their day jobs. they loved his company. justice scalia and justice ruth ....
fewer people will actually pay tax at that rate. now, let me tell you what else they want to do. they want to nearly double the standard deduction. $12,000 for individuals. $24,000 for married couples. that s the justification for raising the lowest tax rate from 10% to 12% that a whole lot of people aren t actually going to pay for. the plan also calls for the elimination of the so-called marriage penalty. raising the tax credit for a child under 17 by a yet to be specified amount. and look for a new $500 tax credit for non-child dependents. that replaces the idea that you can actually otherwise claim non-child dependents. in addition, the plan calls for repealing the estate tax. what a lot of republicans call the death tax. this benefits generally speaking the wealthy. it also repeals the alternative minimum tax. at lot of you might say i pay the alternative minimum tax. here s the problem. it was actually meant to be something for the wealthy. wasn t indexed to inflation so a< ....
this is so far looking at the re-elect, they seem to have a rule about who has the legal fees paid for by campaign donors. you have to be named donald trump. did good thing for the trump family is they have two of those guys. two people. junior and senior. ivanka needs anything, uh-huh. kushner, do you get any money? exactly. poor mike pence, next week, is going to be raising money for the trump re-election fund. he s raised money for his own pac and donated that money to the trump re-election fund paying for junior s legal fees and mike pence pays for his own. the funniest part is he then has to sell the plasma to help jared and the other non donald trump family members pay their legal fees. running out of blood. yeah. you know that the president s going to volunteer him. tap mike. he s healthy. the paler he looks, the more he s pumping into the trump family legal fees. thank you. have a great weekend. thank you. you too. all right. i m in for launs o donne ....
i have never known this woman or anything with regard to the other girls, saying this is 40 years ago, after my return from the hill temilitary, i dated a young ladies. remember what the lady said. that in 1979 when she was 14 years old, moore met her at a courthouse where her mother was attending a child custody hearing. moore offered to stay with her. she says moore asked for her number and days later, picked her up, took her to his home and kissed her. during a second visit, he took off her shirt and pants, removed his clothes and guides her to touch him. she was 14. in addition, three more told the post moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18, although they do not accuse him of anything inappropriate. the legal age of consent in alabama then and now is 16. so along with those four women, the post basis reporting on interviews with more than 30 people who say they knew moore between 1977 and 1982. yesterday, beth reinhardt, one of the post reporter ....