join us he really, really just let it go on clarence thomas in the judiciary committee yesterday. we re going to show the video and get more from congressman jeffries about that. and at the end of the hour, there is another, there s someone else who let it go. and that is patty lupone, tony winner, patty lupone. tony nominee. who in a discussion with a audience at her broadway show the other day. had to enforce the mask policy. in her theater. in the video s gone viral, a lot of people have seen already. but it deserves, it absolutely deserves the national tv attention that we re going to give it at the end of the hour. and patty love that. i was on the subway they, thinking i could use patty lupone. no one s wearing mask any more. but i m looking forward to that. i m looking forward to it. once again, donald trump and trump republicans have brought us to a place tonight where we have never been before. in the trump era of our politics, which is still ongoing, when i
american bridge, 21st century, a former president of planned parenthood, also with us, susan squire of gender and sexuality studies at penn state university. she was a classmate of justice alito. she wrote a letter protesting his draft opinion. thank you both very much for joining us. and professor squire, let me begin with you tonight. what s let you write this letter about your classmate? it was very simple. i have already been planning to go to my 50th reunion. i woke up i guess it was may 3rd and saw the news of the leaked document. and i read it because i am trained as a literature, and medicines color, so i pulled up the whole document, and i read it. as someone who works with literature, i know us nuance and literature. i was appalled by what i saw. so i got in touch with a couple of the woman who went to
alito s classmates have signed an order. we have been deeply shocked by the lead to draft locked shocked we find it better indeed to see the draft supreme court we thought we were making as part of the first classes of princeton women towards a world of equality and fairness for women of all races and social and economic positions. joining us now, co-chair of american bridge, 21st century, to seal richards, former president of planned parenthood, also with us, susan squire of gender and sexuality studies at penn state university. she was a classmate of justice alito. she wrote a letter protesting his draft opinion. thank you both very much for joining us. and professor squire, let me begin with you tonight. what s let you write this letter about your classmate? it was very simple. i have
senator voted in support of protecting women s rights to make her own decisions about her pregnancy. this is going to be an increasingly important issue to voters this fall. professor squire, i was stunned by the scholarship in the opinion, especially quoting some aristocrats who were believers, both believers in which is an believed that witches had to be prosecuted and put to death and did their part as in the british judicial system to actually make sure that witches were executed. those are legal authorities in samuel alito s draft. yes. when i right, it i wouldn t have given this a c grade if he had been my undergraduate student. he didn t consider the context at all. and this from a man, i am sorry to say, is trained as a historian at princeton, as well as a political scientist. for me, the really stunning