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justice samuel alito - >> and no one else theres no other birthdays o that day >> [laughter thank, you my friend >> thank you >> and thank you at-home for joining us this. our im happy to have you here i know it is weird to have m here on a thursday, like i was last night, and now and friday as i am tonight. i know that is unusual but your usual host at thi hour, the great alex wagner, i off on a family vacation thi week great week to choose, alex wagner and because she is a way, yo ar...

tonight. but your usual host at thi hour would be alex wagners of on a family vacation this week great week to choose, alex and because she is a way you are stuck with me. i apologize. alex well be back next week but tonight, because you are stuck with me, you are als stuck with this. >> gentlemen, i believe youve all received copies of the prepared statement that i read to the court in open court as i said in that statement, the reason i changed m decision to fight this matte is becau...

♪ ♪ ♪ if there is anything tha recent events in tennessee and other states have taught us, i should be that state legislatures are critical fo our democracy. i mean, it is where america policy is made and if we dont know who youre stat representatives are, you shoul get to know them because the are determining the future state houses create policies whose impact can reach beyond state lines and influenc entire regions, affectin peoples pocketbooks, education s abilities to make d...

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Again, it may work locally, or within the realm of the trum base for the jordan. i dont understand what member of the republican party -- that this is a great idea. >> certainly, its not a general election strategy. we can agree with that at the same time, it is as absurd as it is, it is a circus, it is just disturbing elemen of some anti-democrati sentiment at play here this was a manhattan jury that is doing its duty, and voting, either way, regardless of ho they voted, this is part of th demo...

Democratic minority leader o the -- salmon can, see the chairman o the tennessee blacks of state legislatures, senator ramesh akbari, the minority leader of the tennessee state senate, an the assistant minority leade of the tennessee state house we started by talking about th growing anti-democratic action of southern state legislatures as i talk to experts across th country, civil rights lawyers, constitutional lawyers, they say this assault, what they ar calling in assault, on black people, bl...

Laboratories of democracy that can test laws and policies and enacted by the people. even still, these experiment are not without constraints. the u.s. constitution, a law that is supreme, even to the tennessee general assemblies act, has placed some issue beyond the reach of th democratic process first among them, freedom of speech if tennessee wishes to exercis its police power in restrictin speech itconsiders obscene, it must do so within th constraints and framework of the u.s. constitution....