The unhinged reaction by liberals in the media to the leaking of a draft decision by the Supreme Court overturning Roe is escalating on MSNBC. Radical host Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday night attacked the Constitution as a “much weaker document than we thought” and openly called for stripping the high Court of its “secrecy.” In effect, he praised the shocking leak of the opinion.
Talking to former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill, The Last Word host suddenly decided that politicizing the Supreme Court is okay, so long as it might stop a conservative ruling:
Right up until the time when I was holding a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion in my hands, I respected and I think believed in all of the institutional practices of the Supreme Court, including the secrecy of the conference of nine and the deliberative processes. But then I realized, “Wait a minute, I’m holding the law of the land in my hand, and according to Supreme Court practice -- and not according to any law -- but according to Supreme Court practice, I'm not supposed to know a word about this until it is the law of the land.”
On the legislative side, that would be like we discover what is in legislation only when the president signs it into law. This thing is kind of like the bill the committee votes on in the Senate, and then get sent to the floor, where it might change in various ways, and the public knows every word of that process or they`re free to know every word of that process as it`s going along. I’m not so sure that the Supreme Court secrecy process around developing these opinions is actually worth preserving.
So there you go. Leaking an entire draft opinion is fine because the Court is now a legislature.
Earlier, O’Donnell trashed the Constitution for not stopping the Supreme Court from becoming too conservative:
And thanks to the corruption of the Constitution, which has turned down to be a much weaker document than we thought, 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.
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The Last Word
5/9/2022
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: 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. And the president’s stupidity is dangerous. And thanks to the corruption of the Constitution, which has turned down to be a much weaker document than we thought, 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. By refusing to even vote on President Obama`s nominee to the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell said set up the stupidest president in history to appoint one third of the Supreme Court, using a list of possible nominees, given to him by Mitch McConnell. That is corrupting the Constitution.
And now, the constitutionally corrupted Supreme Court is working on a draft opinion, in which five Supreme Court justices, only one of whom was appointed by a Republican president, who actually got the most votes in the presidential election, will for the first time in the country’s history, revoke a constitutional right -- the constitutional right for women and girls and children who get pregnant, to decide what happens next inside their own bodies. The Supreme Court is going to say, it is not up to them. The Supreme Court is going to say, it is entirely up to politicians. 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. Supreme Court is going to say to all of them, you must have the rapist`s baby. You must see your rapist`s eyes in your child for the rest of your life.
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O’DONNELL: Senator McCaskill, you know, right up until the time when I was holding a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion in my hands, I respected and I think believed in all of the institutional practices of the Supreme Court, including the secrecy of the conference of nine and the deliberative processes. But then I realized, wait a minute, I’m holding the law of the land in my hand, and according to Supreme Court practice -- and not according to any law -- but according to Supreme Court practice, I'm not supposed to know a word about this until it is the law of the land.
On the legislative side, that would be like we discover what is in legislation only when the president signs it into law. This thing is kind of like the bill the committee votes on in the Senate, and then get sent to the floor, where it might change in various ways, and the public knows every word of that process or they`re free to know every word of that process as it`s going along. I’m not so sure that the Supreme Court secrecy process around developing these opinions is actually worth preserving.
MCCASKILL: Yes, and here`s the thing, this is a branch of American government and some transparency is not going to hurt anything here. American people understanding more about how this works is not going to hurt anything. The idea that they have no ethics guidelines, the idea that they have secret dockets. You know, all these things that have come to light. I really -- you know, we talked about -- you talked about an earlier segment, Lawrence, about no one is above the law. Well, I`ll tell you who is above the law in the United States of America, that`s the Supreme Court. Because there is very clearly a law that says, Clarence Thomas should in fact recuse himself. But the only person who can enforce that law is Clarence Thomas. The other justices are doing nothing to enforce that. And they’re the only court in the land that has not ethics guidelines whatsoever. They can take money for speeches.
