knoxville, tennessee, boston massachusetts, wilmington, delaware. reno, nevada. st. paul, minnesota. kansas city, missouri. austin, texas. americans turning out in city after city across the country, many of them kind of in shock. the country is digesting the bombshell news that broke just over 24 hours ago that a majority on the supreme court appears poised to revoke the constitutional right to abortion in the united states. today, the chief justice john roberts confirmed that a draft majority opinion published last night by political.com is authentic. and that draft opinion, justice samuel alito eviscerate s both roe v. wade, and planned parenthood versus casey. the foundational supreme court precedents that have guaranteed the right to an adoption in this country for decades. if the court does ultimately rule that way, the justices take away a right that americans have been guaranteed for nearly 50 years, the ramifications will be immediate, widespread, severe, and in some
are glad for your depth of experience, on wheels like this lawrence because these are tectonic shifts, these are seismic shifts. even though we knew this is what the supreme court was going to do, the reality of the fact that it is happening has got to have everybody in this country thinking about what s next and what freedom actually looks like. ali, i thought i was coming to terms with this when i was working the senate in the 1990s. i expected eventually that there would be the five votes for it, but have to tell, you i was absolutely shocked walking through the building last night holding in my hands a leaked opinion. i had so much trouble believing that this was an actual leaked opinion, since that had never occurred before. but by the time we got on the air after rachael did an hour on it, it was pretty clear. this was the real thing. and so, we went right past that question of, is this the real thing? we don t know if the real thing with the chief justice confirming to
kansas city, missouri. austin, texas. americans turning out in city after city across the country, many of them kind of in shock. the country is digesting the bombshell news that broke just over 24 hours ago that a majority on the supreme court appears poised to revoke the constitutional right to abortion in the united states. today, the chief justice john roberts confirmed that a draft majority opinion published last night by political. com is authentic. and that draft opinion, justice samuel alito eviscerate s both roe v. wade, and planned parenthood versus casey. the foundational supreme court precedents that have guaranteed the right to an adoption in this country for decades. if the court does ultimately rule that way, the justices take away a right that americans have been guaranteed for nearly 50 years, the ramifications will be immediate, widespread, severe, and in some ways, unpredictable. but one thing that is predictable is the practical effects of this potential r
actually looks like. actually looks like. ali, i thought i was coming to terms with this when i was working the senate in the 1990s. i expected eventually that there would be the five votes for it, but have to tell, you i was absolutely shocked walking through the building last night holding in my hands a leaked opinion. i had so much trouble believing that this was an actual leaked opinion, since that had never occurred before. but by the time we got on the air after rachael did an hour on it, it was pretty clear. this was the real thing. and so, we went right past that question of, is this the real thing? we don t know if the real thing with the chief justice confirming today. but we have never been through anything like it. and i m gonna take us through a little bit of the history that joe biden mention today that got us to where we are today. i look forward to it lawrence, thank you, have yourself a great show. thank you. the supreme court is facing a crisis of legiti
That s great, keep doing it. please at the show at us and bc prime to your dvr recording schedule, msnbc prime is now with this call show is called from tuesday to friday. the reason we need both those recordings under dvr is that rachel is going to be here on mondays even though her whole team is still producing the show every night at nine eastern. so you need to set your dvr to record every night at nine which means setting into record both the rachel maddow show and starting now, msnbc prime. that does it for us tonight we ll see again tomorrow at seven glassware floors of donald which for the purposes of your dvr, remains the last word with lawrence o donnell. and we are glad of that and we are glad for your depth of experience, on wheels like this lawrence because these are tectonic shifts, these are seismic shifts. even though we knew this is what the supreme court was going to do, the reality of the fact that it is happening has got to have everybody in this country thinking ab