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Joy Reid
@joyreid· May 9, 2022

What just happened in the Philippines should serve as a warning to democracy-loving citizens around the globe.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· May 8, 2022

If you force a woman and say you must give a rapist`s baby life, but we`re going to do nothing for you to make sure that life survives, that you survive, that`s not the Christianity I think any of us, whether you`re anti-abortion or you…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· May 8, 2022

Republican politicians, meanwhile, are making clear that they are not finished trying to consolidate power, by not just simply overturning Roe. They`re making clear that they would like to go further.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· May 8, 2022

I mean, I suppose, if the justices don`t like the First Amendment, they could just drive to another state, where the legislature is determined that the constitutional right to privacy applies, right? I mean, that is what they`re telling…

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· May 5, 2022

To force a raped 13-year-old girl, to force a raped 12-year-old girl to have a baby, to force a rave to child to give birth to a child, to force or to do that is barbaric. And every Republican senator knows that.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· May 4, 2022

Donald Trump did something that no one term president has ever done before. He appointed three Supreme Court justices.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· May 4, 2022

There is one president in our history who was impeached twice and never won a majority vote in a presidential election.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· May 4, 2022

Seventy percent of the country is opposed to what the Supreme Court is doing.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· May 4, 2022

A vote for George H.W. Bush for president in 1988 has turned out to be a vote to revoke a constitutional right.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· May 2, 2022

A vote for Republicans at every level -- state legislature, governor, senator, president -- has produced this decision.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· May 2, 2022

If given the leeway to act by the United States Supreme Court, they would seek a nationwide abortion ban.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· May 1, 2022

It could activate young and progressive voters, who overwhelmingly prefer Democrats, when they vote.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Apr 29, 2022

If people get sent back to their certain deaths, tough. But it is utter cowardice to hide behind this public health measure and some terrible right-wing judges to withdraw the U.S. from its asylum requirements and abandon this moral…

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Apr 29, 2022

But Donald Trump and Stephen Miller have been gone for over a year. And both of those programs remain in Mexico and Title 42 are both still in effect, as I speak to you tonight.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Apr 29, 2022

Stephen Miller's primary goal in life is just to limit the number of people coming to the U.S. as much as he can. It’s what he lives for.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Apr 27, 2022

The notion that, well, in some states, you have certain rights and, in other states, you don’t have the same rights is the kind of thing that literally defines different countries.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Apr 27, 2022

A majority of Americans think gun laws in this country should be more strict.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Apr 27, 2022

The Senate is a disaster. It is a structural disaster. It was a disaster at birth.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Apr 26, 2022

You wind up outside feeling persecuted, then turnaround and point the figure -- finger at the institution for being the problem, even though you are the ones who retreated from the kind of core and shared values that could possibly bind…

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Apr 26, 2022

It`s their dream for the right kind of billionaire to pull off a hostile takeover in an institution of American culture and wrench it back, right, what they believe is taken from them.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Apr 26, 2022

The most consistent tone of Trump-era conservatism is whining. Donald Trump is the biggest whiner, the biggest one I`ve ever encountered in life.

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Tucker Carlson
@tuckercarlson· Apr 26, 2022

Unless conservatives get their act together right away, Kevin McCarthy or one of his highly liberal allies, like Elise Stefanik is very likely to be Speaker of the House in January. That would mean we will have a Republican Congress led by…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Apr 25, 2022

It’s about people who care about democracy and people who don’t.

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