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And theres no telling where that would stop. >> i know it is foley to make predictions on the basis of oral arguments, but youve seen a lot of them. youve argued before the court. having seen what happened today, did you have a sense of which way the balance of the court might be leaning on this issue? >> rachel, i did not. clear, i can tell you how eight of the justices are going to vote. four on each side. justice kennedy at one point indicated he understood that this was a burden on the emplo...

And was wielding a broom stick. when a subject is threatening or assaulting an officer, it is the job of law enforcement to subdue him and take him into custody, not to execute him." the central question of whether officers were justified in killing mr. todashev, why a man wielding a broom stick needed seven bullets put into him remains frustratingly and disappointingly unanswered." now, we asked the fbi if they would please make somebody from the bureau available for this show tonight to talk a...

And now he has decided that he never really had that position at all. he says he didnt understand what he was advocating all those years. the republican position on contraception has become increasingly doctrinaire, completely untenable except in republican primaries. that fact and that issue boiled over today in a bombshell case at the united states supreme court. we have more on that ahead. stay with us.

Should be able to deny its employees access to contraception on the basis of their religious beliefs, the lawyer is arguing that case and he gets out 1 1/2 sentences of his argument when he is interrupted by justice sonia sotomayor. she says "is your claim limited to contraceptives or include items like blood transfusions, vaccines? for some religions, products made of pork. could an employer preclude the use of those items as well?" the lawyer gets out 2 1/2 sentences in response to justice sot...

Today is posted on our website tonight at maddowblog.com. let me say, i would still welcome the opportunity to speak with anyone from the fbi ever if they would ever be willing to talk about this live on television. so far, i dont have hope that they ever will. especially because this has ended exactly the way they needed it to end. in the meantime, joining us now, david boeri, senior reporter for wbur. hes been following this case. thank you very much for being with us. >> youre welcome, rachel...

Jumps in again, interrupts him, asks, "blood transfusions, could they refuse their employees getting blood transfusions on religious grounds?" the lawyer says at that point each of these would have to be evaluated on its own. then they struggled on through the first half of the argument. this is a case at the supreme court today that has been championed by conservatives and republicans as a test of religious liberty. at its factual core, though, it really is about the question of whether or not ...

The case that a corporation should be able to deny its employees access to contraception on the basis of their religious beliefs, the lawyer is arguing that case and he gets out 1 1/2 sentences of his argument when he is interrupted by justice sonia sotomayor. she says "is your claim limited to contraceptives or include items like blood transfusions, vaccines? for some religions, products made of pork. could an employer preclude the use of those items as well?" the lawyer gets out 2 1/2 sentence...

This case? and how broadly applicable is it beyond the initial facts of this challenge? >> well, the key legal point that ought to decide the case is whether companies can use their economic leverage to impose their own moral views on their employees. no one doubts that the green family has sincere objections to contraception. they own a company that employs 13,000 people. and they want to impose their religious views on those 13,000 people. and if they succeed, as justice kagan pointed out late...

The fbis full statement to us today is posted on our website tonight at maddowblog.com. let me say, i would still welcome the opportunity to speak with anyone from the fbi ever if they would ever be willing to talk about this live on television. so far, i dont have hope that they ever will. especially because this has ended exactly the way they needed it to end. in the meantime, joining us now, david boeri, senior reporter for wbur. hes been following this case. thank you very much for being wit...

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