disney world in announcing that you re going to run for president. ron desantis, enjoy that ride. alex, i ve got a problem little struggle through here in this program. it is similar to the problem that i have with putting the words fox and news anywhere near each other. if i do, i feel like i m telling a lie. it s just not true. there is a congressional committee now where i cannot bring myself to say the name of the committee and i have to report on it tonight. i bet i know each committee you re talking about. don t say it, i can t take it. it is maybe chaired by somebody call it s fair to call him the jordan committee. the jim jordan committee, the closest i can come to. i simply can t use the name of the committee. i ll explain why in this segment as i report on the committee, while i dare not say his name. and don t forget, lawrence, i know you love the parliamentarian details of the u.s. congress, subcommittee. technically a subcommittee. not even an act
consequences. that s 2000-plus jobs being welcomed back with open arms to the golden state. a desantis presidential election announcement is expected next week. i ll see you tomorrow. now time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. the las the story you just rd could not be subtitled, it is hard out there for a republican, because when the party stands for absolutely nothing, what do you do next? it s not that hard to remember. when one of the things that they stood for was, sucking up to and protecting in every way the biggest employers in your state, and when you abandon everything that you used to think, what are you left with? you end up with stories like that. you end up with not going to disney world in announcing that you re going to run for president. ron desantis, enjoy that ride. alex, i ve got a problem little struggle through here in this program. it is similar to the problem that i have with putting the words fox and news anywhere
go right around the circuits for as much as six months of the year. initially not everything then reminding them who s boss. in 1964, when congress had a pretty substantial pay raise for most federal officials, and including federal judges. the justices actually got much less of a pay raise because congress has reflected its dissatisfaction with how the court had ruled in recent cases. there were other examples but for most of our history, there is red levers that congress could pull, not necessarily to overrule the court, that s the course job, not necessarily to prevent the court from asserting control in the system, but as madison wrote in federals 51, ambition must be made to counteract ambition. to counteract the ambition of the justices. i think that the big part of where we were today, nobody in congress is there to counteract. professor, i could listen to this all night.
congress has reflected its dissatisfaction with how the court had ruled in recent cases. there were other examples but for most of our history, there is red levers that congress could pull, not necessarily to overrule the court, that s the course job, not necessarily to prevent the court from asserting control in the system, but as madison wrote in federals 51, ambition must be made to counteract ambition. to counteract the ambition of the justices. i think that the big part of where we were today, nobody in congress is there to counteract. professor, i could listen to this all night. thanks very much for joining us tonight, we really appreciate it. stephen blatnik, important new book is the shadow docket. coming up, why do donald trump s former lawyer s turn against him. a former trump criminal defense
the democratic party, because they have spent their lives over in one tribe. but if we can create, in general, more tribes for them to go into in the independent space, that s a good thing for democracy, because it makes it easier for those people if the democrats are the pro democracy party to caucus with the democrats. so now half of americans say they re political independents and not democrats or republicans. that tribe needs some homes to go to. otherwise, they will be won over and they are cede the battlefield to the extremes. matthew dowd said it so articulate just now, one of the points that i want to foot stomp, i want to go back 250 years and hat tip one of the founders. i think it was madison in the federalist papers said ambition needs to be made to counteract ambition. that was one of the best defenses against trump. people hoped he would be impeached or booted out with the