A Crisis of Faith - Lawrence O'Donnell - Prepare to weep...

[Joinfortmill]

[NJCher]

1. A must see

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Saw it last night and he eviscerates the conservative 6. The corruption. Roberts, the billionaire buys. It was some of the highest and best uses of television that I’ve seen.

[ShazzieB]

8. The conservative 6.

5 not so good old boys and 1 handmaid.

[NJCher]

13. thanks

I pulled an all-nighter (writing project) and hadn't had any sleep. I'll edit it.

[JHB]

2. It may have mainly been for time constraints, but I'm uncomfortable with skipping...

...straight from Nixon to McConnell and Trump. The long campaign by Conservatives to radicalize the courts to conservative ends began with Reagan and has been systematic by every Republican president since.

It wasn't due to two corrupt men. It was the result of a long-term corruption campaign to remake the courts in a conservatively-correct image.

[cstanleytech]

4. Shouldn't that be a conservatively-corrupt image?

[JHB]

15. A difference without distinction. They're effectively interchangeable

However, my preference is to emphasize the parallels between conservatives and the true, original, Soviet-grade fall-in-line-or-else meaning of "politically correct".

[msfiddlestix]

6. While true, However at this particular point in time and juncture, I give your point a pass for the

sake of underscoring the most important at this moment.

But yes, you are so correct regarding historical context.

[NJCher]

14. there's a book

written about this long campaign.

Want to know where I saw it? On the discard pile of the public library in one of the most liberal towns in NJ.

I wanted to take it but I knew I'd cry my eyes out over reading it. I wish now I'd taken it, though.

[bronxiteforever]

3. K&R. Thank you for posting.

[msfiddlestix]

5. Hear, Here!!!

The Best Response by any analyst or commentator I've stumbled onto yet.

Thanks for posting this so I could hear it.

Let these words ring loud and clear throughout the nation.

[sarchasm]

7. KnR!

[mnhtnbb]

9. I agree with Lawrence about

Gorsuch being seated on the Court illegitimately. I wish Lawrence had come right out and referred to him as the bastard Justice that he is.

[calimary]

10. Bookmarking cuz we missed it last night.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. Excellent piece, as chilling as it is just plain disheartening. Thanks for posting.

[LoisB]

12. I, too, grew up with the Warren Court and Lawrence speaks exactly how I feel.

[Snackshack]

17. deleted only half the post keeps showing up.

from the Democratic Paxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxty a long time ago. The entire party should have been doing everything possible to make mcconnell's life hell when he was cblocking Presxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxident Obama's pick for SCOTUS for a year and again when when he rammed a pick through in xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. 'Corrupt' Supreme Court is 'just making stuff up' to deliver wins for the right: Lawrence O'Donnell

Lawrence was amazing last tonight

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/lawrence-odonnell-calls-out-supreme-court/

"Is legal scholarship scholarship if you can just make up stuff?" continued O'Donnell. "That is the question that I have been privately asking myself for over a year now. And that is the essence of my crisis of faith. For I once faithfully believed that the Warren Court, followed by the Burger Court, were using the most refined techniques of legal scholarship to deliver to us the true meaning of the Constitution, I now believe the Republican justices on the Supreme Court are just making it up. And they are doing that in a way that scholars cannot possibly do in other areas of scholarship, like mathematics or biology."

As an example, O'Donnell said, "we have a Supreme Court whose final decision of the year was based on a person who was made up. A person who does not exist." Specifically, the 303 Creative v. Elenis ruling, which held in favor of a web designer who feared she would be "forced" to make wedding websites for same-sex couples, and allowed the justices to, in O'Donnell's words, "mark gays and lesbians for second-class status."

"Is legal scholarship scholarship if you can just make up stuff?" continued O'Donnell. "That is the question that I have been privately asking myself for over a year now. And that is the essence of my crisis of faith. For I once faithfully believed that the Warren Court, followed by the Burger Court, were using the most refined techniques of legal scholarship to deliver to us the true meaning of the Constitution, I now believe the Republican justices on the Supreme Court are just making it up. And they are doing that in a way that scholars cannot possibly do in other areas of scholarship, like mathematics or biology."

As an example, O'Donnell said, "we have a Supreme Court whose final decision of the year was based on a person who was made up. A person who does not exist." Specifically, the 303 Creative v. Elenis ruling, which held in favor of a web designer who feared she would be "forced" to make wedding websites for same-sex couples, and allowed the justices to, in O'Donnell's words, "mark gays and lesbians for second-class status."

[roamer65]

19. This is why I wholeheartedly support Arizona AG Kris Mayes.

Ignore the garbage rulings.

[MerryBlooms]

20. r&k Excellent. ❤

[Wild blueberry]

21. Brilliant elegy

O'Donnell did a great job.
Thank you for posting this here; I don't get cable.
Thank you.

[Martin68]

22. A definitive statement of the constitutional crisis this court has foisted on this nation for the

purpose of imposing their personal political and religious beliefs on the law of the land.