behind a coup, alive and kicking in state houses across america. the authority for directing the manner of choosing electors belongs to the legislature. tonight, the massive supreme court decision that stopped a slow motion insurrection. van, the evolving alibi of an indicted ex president. you re not concerned, then, with your voice on those recordings. my voice was fine. i didn t even see the recording. just how bout of the new tapes in the trump document case is the other jack smith investigation ramps up. i did everything right, and they invited me. and why republican leaders finally acknowledging that donald trump is a loser is actually a big deal. the question is, is he the strongest to win the election? i don t know that answer. when all in starts, right now. we good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. it is not often the case these days but today the supreme court issued a long anticipated monumental ruling that actually bolsters america s democ
bissell with already for directing the manner of choosing electors begin belongs to the legislature. tonight, the massive supreme court decision that stopped a slow motion insurrection. van, the evolving alibi of an indicted ex president. you re not concerned, then, with your voice on those recordings. my voice was fine. i didn t even see the recording. just how bout of the new tapes in the trump document case is the other jack smith investigation ramps up. i did everything right, and they invited me. and why republican leaders finally acknowledging that donald trump is a loser is actually a big deal. the question is, is he the strongest to win the election? i don t know that answer. when all in starts, right now. we good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. it is not often the case these days but today the supreme court issued a long anticipated monumental ruling that actually bolsters america s democratic strengths. the case before the court today con
Washington post and special counsel jack smith has taken a keen interest in the fake electors plot, focusing specifically on potential fraud. new york times recently reported that one of the trump campaign s key players in this scheme may actually be cooperating with federal prosecutors. and tomorrow, republican georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger who trump infamously called and told to find votes to overturn the georgia election, will meet with prosecutors for the first time on the council s team in atlanta. more on the special counsel s investigation and rapid belmond s coming up. but again, at the core of trump s attempted coup, elizabeth of things going on, but at its core, as articulated by john eastman, and he told rusty bowers, is this bizarre, to my mind, ludicrous fringe idea that conservatives ran with after the coup failed to return trump to the white house.
Books? or that he can drive immigrants out of the entire country? yeah, good luck, agriculture. or for some blue states to not priests protect their citizens from a deadly pandemic, or shut down its theme parks when they support pride? is that what he thinks the president does? he s taking it further than trump, promising a demographically pam panicked base that he will be able to undo the reality of today s america. it will make people angry or than they already are. we have seen what happens when magazines get angry. this magical thinking isn t just dame. it s straight-up dangerous and that it s tonight s rhea readout. all in with chris hayes starts right now. h chri tonight, on all in, we no longer live in a self governing republic if we can get the answer to this question. animating legal theory behind a cool, alive and kicking in state houses across america.
About how democracy works in this country. we understand there are statutes in constitutions and the constitution s trump the statutes. our intro focused on the most extreme version of this. the plenary power of the state legislature saying we re giving our elections to this other guy. but the more common application of this is whether state courts can strike down what they view as gerrymanders the violate state constitutions. you say the democracy docket is currently tracking 25 cases that bring under constitution state law, seven which challenge congressional maps and challenge procedures. under understate constitution administration of elections or maps, they are now preserved, thanks to this rule. yeah, and chris, this is one of the big messages i hope people take away. state courts are doing the work of democracy, day in a day out.