store you are watching our live continuing special coverage of today s unanimous guilty on all counts verdict. in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. i am rachel maddow, i m here with my colleague, stephanie ruhle and jen psaki and alex wagner and chris hayes, in a courtroom in downtown manhattan, just after 5:00 eastern time this evening, a foreperson of the journey rose and delivered the jury unanimous , guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal the scheme to correct the 2016 election. the scheme that was described by the prosecution in their summation as something that may very well have been the reason that donald trump won the 2016 election. as of tonight, it is official a criminal scheme, he has been convicted on 34 counts. with those convictions, we enter uncharted territory as a country, for the first time, a president has criminally convicted and for the first time for one of our two main political parties is about to
should be looked at very, very carefully. i think they misled the senate with the intention of getting their confirmation vote with the intention of overruling roe. so, i m very concerned that these justices have crossed a line that no one believed would be crossed. senator kirsten gillibrand thinks several supreme court justices misled the senate about their stances on roe versus wade after saying this at their confirmation hearing. is roe a super precedent? how would you define super precedent? i m answering a lot of questions about roe which i think indicates that roe doesn t fall in that category. and scholars across the spectrum say that doesn t mean roe should be overruled. but descriptively, it means a case that everyone has accepted and doesn t call for overruling. as a judge, it s an important precedent of the supreme court, by it i mean roe v. wade and
differently. the way it is used in the scholarship, and the way that i was using it in the article that you re reading from was to define cases that are so well settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for their overruling. i don t answering a lot of questions about row, which indicates the role doesn t fall in that category. and scholars across the spectrum say that it doesn t mean that roe should be overruled. but, descriptively, it doesn t mean that it is not a case that everyone has accepted and doesn t golfers overruling. here s what s interesting to me, you said that brown is i know my time is running out,, is a super president. that is something the supreme court has not even said but you have said that. so, if you say that, why won t you say that about roe v. wade? a case that the courts controlling opinion and that planned parenthood casey case has described as a super president? that s what i m trying to figure out. well, senator, i can just give yo
separately acknowledged that in planned parenthood v. casey, the supreme court s controlling opinion talked about the reliance interests on roe v. wade, which in treated in that case a super president. is roe a super president? how would you define super president. i m out of thought sunday i d be sitting in the chair, but i m not, i m up here, so i m asking you. people you super president differently. the way it is used in the scholarship, and the way that i was using it in the article that you re reading from was to define cases that are so well settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for their overruling. i don t answering a lot of questions about row, which indicates the role doesn t fall in that category. and scholars across the spectrum say that it doesn t mean that roe should be overruled. but, descriptively, it doesn t mean that it is not a case that everyone has accepted and doesn t golfers overruling.
0 again, it has been a remarkable hour. this is groundbreaking reporting from politico.com. josh goldstein, alexander ward. they have obtained i can t even, i still caught sounds crazy to hear the words coming from my mouth. they ve obtained a graph maturity opinion from the supreme court. this is not a ruling that has been issued, but it is been drafted by conservative justice samuel alito which overrules roe v. wade and planned parenthood versus casey, full stop and completely. and with an exclamation point. effectively clearing the way for republican controlled states and any future republican controlled congress at white house to flat out and completely ban abortion in this country, making it illegal without constraint. we re fundamentally changes as the country, it will fundamentally change the relationship between women and the government. it will fundamentally change the future of every girl in the country, for all our daughters and granddaughters, and women that come after