of an election, pressuring election officials to change election results, that, of course, is a crime. this state prosecutor s office in fulton county, georgia, opened that investigation under georgia state law, pressuring or intimidating election officials is a georgia state crime. it s a crime in, everych state the tacountry, and, of course, it s also a federal crime. but while u.s. attorney general merrick garland has made sort of vague patriotic statements about no one being above the law and t federal prosecutors following the evidence wherever it leads, so far there is no evidence that federal prosecutors are investigating that call or any other reported instances of pressure that the president personally put on georgia election officials about the conduct of their official duties.re so far the only known criminal investigation into his efforts to falsify the election results anywhere in the country, the aty only known criminal investigation is that georgia e state inve
see you again tomorrow, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. we have the decision, this order by the federal judge in texas that i think many people anticipated that there would be a federal judge somewhere in texas who would see it this way. just completely shutting down that texas law ordering absolutely no administration of that new texas abortion law at all. none of these lawsuits specifically sending an orderto every state court, do not accept filing of any of these lawsuits against abortion providers, and absolutely shut it down. shut it down. and we ve just learned in the past couple of minutes that texas is appealing and again, the legal undergirding of the texas abortion ban is so weird, it s specifically designed to evade federal constitutional scrutiny, that i think it s very hard to predict what s going to happen here between here and the circuit and the supreme court, but this judge s ruling
court. do not accept filing of any of these lawsuits. against abortion providers. and absolutely shut it down. shut it down. we ve just learned in the past couple of minutes that texas is appealing, and again, but legal undergirding of the texas abortion ban is so weird, and so specifically designed to evade federal constitutional scrutiny, that i think it s very hard to predict what s going to happen here. between here in the circle and the supreme court, but this judge s ruling tonight is definitive, and it s kind of lit. the judge is clearly kind of had. yes and he spends a great deal of time on that under girding that you re talking about. it s 113 pages, he has dozens of pages that i have skimmed that are specifically about that. about the design of the law, how the law was specifically designed to try to avoid, judicial review, and then specifically why the federal, government dusts department that intervened, here does have the standing to do that. i learned some t
american woman as his nominee to the supreme court for justice breyer s seat. even though other presidents including ronald reagan, donald trump have made pledges of that kind to pick a specific demographic for the court. in reagan s case he pledged in advance as a candidate that he would appoint the first women justice. president trump also pledged that he would appoint a female justice to court, nevertheless conservative media and republicans are tearing their hair out and pretending like nothing like this is ever happened before and they are so outraged that a black women is finally going to be nominated to the court lead. president biden pledged that his nominee would be announced within a month by the end of february and so now the countdown begins. we ve got eyes on that story tonight as we will every night until we ve got a nominee and beyond. i also have to tell you because i know you, and we ve also got ice tonight on the story i know you most want to hear on tonight
american woman as his nominee to the supreme court for justice breyer seat. even though, other presidents including ronald reagan and donald trump have made pledges of that kind to pick a specific demographic for the court in reagan s case. he pledged in advance as a candidate that he would appoint the first women justice. president trump also pledged that he would appoint a female justice to court. nevertheless, conservative media and republicans are turning their hair out and pretending like nothing like this has never happened before. there are so outraged that a black woman is finally going to be nominated for the court. president biden pledged today that his nominee will be announced within a month by the end of february. so, not the countdown begins. now, we ve got eyes on that story tonight as we will, every night, until we got a nominee and beyond. i also have to tell you, because i know you, we ve also got eyes tonight on the story i know you most want to hear on ton