Lawrence O'Donnell

In a fair world, Josh Shapiro would get to run for governor, debating issues like taxation, economic development, education, environmental issues. The usual concerns of governors.

The future of the American government, the future of American democracy is not supposed to be one of the things at issue in the election of a governor. It never has been before, until now.

The only strategy they have for winning the presidency is winning the Electoral College.

The Republican Party could try to convince the country that they’re forced birth policy for 12-year-old girls, who have been raped, is a good idea.

The majority of the Supreme Court which reflect the thinking of a small minority of the population is about to revoke a constitutional right and erase the word united from the name of this country.

What the Supreme Court is doing could not happen in a democracy.

Tomorrow, in the United States Senate, majority leader Chuck Schumer will bring a bill to the Senate floor that would make Roe v. Wade the law of the land through legislation.

No Democrat has ever run for any governorship in this country by calling the Republican president illegitimate.

The vision for America, as expressed by Samuel Alito and his clerks in the first draft of the Alito opinion to overturn Roe versus Wade, is a country where your rights will depend on where you live.

The Supreme Court is going to say that every woman in America, to every teenage girl, to every 12 year old child, raped by her father or uncle or neighbor in Mississippi or Alabama or Texas or several other states.

Mitch McConnell refused to follow the constitutional requirements of the Senate giving the president of the United States advice and consent on President Obama`s last Supreme Court nominee.

Unfortunately, that is a completely believable story in a Trump republic, because Donald Trump is obviously by a gigantic order of magnitude, the stupidest man who has ever won the Electoral College.