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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 7, 2022

The Democrats’ only choice is to expand it, expand the Supreme Court to dilute the Trump poison on the court.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 7, 2022

The Federalist Society has infected the federal judiciary to the point that tactically, the Department of Justice has no good choice in the Trump search warrant case.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 7, 2022

If you control the courts, you can do whatever you want. Every dictator knows that. Vladimir Putin knows that.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 6, 2022

The party that under Trump lost control of the House and the Senate and the White House is still standing behind him.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 6, 2022

Unfortunately, that advice was either not shared with the rest of the party or just wholly ignored, because, by and large, the party that under Trump lost control of the House and the Senate and the White House is still standing behind him.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 6, 2022

This is not a partisan issue. This is not an issue about Donald Trump being a Republican. Who bloody cares? This is an issue of our national security.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 6, 2022

Sometimes a judicial opinion is about the law and the Constitution and not about the author of the opinion.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 6, 2022

The only way Donald Trump could suffer reputational harm is if the evidence contained child pornography which it most assuredly does not.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Sep 4, 2022

As soon as the midterms are over, as far as I'm concerned, we're in the presidential cycle at that point.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 1, 2022

Career Trump enabler Bill Barr is saying Trump probably committed a serious crime.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Aug 31, 2022

It's pretty risky actually for Biden to totally ignore, you know, inflation and mostly ignore economic issues.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Aug 31, 2022

This comes on the heels of the Democratic victory in New York`s 19 last week. A Democrat had flip the seat that had been Republican-controlled for almost 50 years tonight in a red state special election.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Aug 31, 2022

A Democrat is going to represent that state for the first time in the state`s history.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Aug 31, 2022

It is an argument that advances well past any we`ve seen before. New facts and citations, all of which comes right up to the edge of just coming out and saying, this guy committed crimes.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 28, 2022

Just treat him like you would treat any other American, because guess what? When you’re not president, you’re just a regular person and you’re subject to all the same laws as we are.

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Jesse Watters
@jessewatters· Aug 24, 2022

I am concerned about it, so they should be concerned about it. Yes, I`m a little concerned. I`m not going to lie about it.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 24, 2022

Everybody knows this 6-3 court would uphold a national abortion ban.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 24, 2022

The issue of personal freedom is always a powerful motivator for whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, liberal or conservative.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 23, 2022

It just shows that there's a lot of disquiet in the country, and that these extreme candidates can make more headway than they should.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 23, 2022

I just think that for a while, the normal thing you would expect people saying the country's going the wrong direction, that's only going to help Republicans. But what's happening is people are looking at the Republican saying that it's…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 23, 2022

I think right now, with the economy being terrible, you'd expect Republicans would be just crushing us everywhere. And they're not. They're not crushing us everywhere.

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Tucker Carlson
@tuckercarlson· Aug 23, 2022

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, not impressive, has imposed what might be the most authoritarian restrictions on daily life in the history of this country.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 22, 2022

He is getting more courtesy than David Petraeus, who was a military -- he served this country, put his body on the line for the United States.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 21, 2022

Lock her up was literally one of the themes of the Trump campaign when he ran against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

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