tonight wherever you get your podcast. now it's time for the last word. with it and i would like to consider myself somewhat a person that can follow logic but i was listening to that sound bite from donald trump about the shock and the electrocution and i just literally tried to follow and could not make sense. >> you can't follow it because it makes no sense. none of it makes any sense, but that is the point, isn't it? the more you speak in senseless nonsense, the more people come to expect senseless nonsense from you and that then lowers the bar to the ground. >> then everyone just ignores it and moves on and i think that is the scary thing that this guy could one day be president again, making no sense. great to see you. enjoy the rest of your evening off. >> have a good show. >> thank you so t bmuch. today's decision will have deadly consequences. that is what supreme court justice sonia sotomayor said about the ruling by her conservative colleagues rejecting a trumpeter a ban on bump stocks. in the 6-3 decision, the conservative justices have single-handedly overturned one of the few measures to help stem gun violence in this country and there are not that many. donald trump's administrationck actually band bump stocks after gunmen used them to open fire at a country music festival in las vegas in 2017, killing nearly 60 people and injuring 500 more in the single deadliest mass shooting in this country's history. the trumpeter a policy made it illegal to possess bump stocks using the same federal laws that prohibitsi machine guns bu justice clarence thomas played with more scandal after news of more undisclosed luxury trips from his billionaire benefactor. somehow, e trtwisted logic in h interpretation that a firearm equipped with a bump stock which allows a semiautomatic rifle to fire with the speed of a fully automatic weapon does not meet the definition of machine gun under federal law. this is what he wrote. >> we hold that a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a machine gun because it cannot fire more than one shot by a single function of the trigger. now, i want to take a minute here to remind everyone what the deadliest massacre in american history sounded like. that is what a semiautomatic rifle made more deadly as a weapon by bump stocks sounds like. you don't have to be a weapons expert to figure that out, but clarence thomas and other extremist on the court don't think that qualifies as a machine gun. justice sonia sotomayor issued a blistering dissent the string with incredulity writing in part but, today, the court puts bump stocks back in civilian hands. to do so, it cast aside congress's definition of machine gun.he when i see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, i call that bird a duck. a bump stock-equipped semiautomatic rifle fires automatically more than one shot without manual reloading by a single function of the trigger. because i, like congress, call that a machine gun, i dissent. donald trump's campaign issued a statement reminding voters that he supports the second amendment and is endorsed by the nra. that doesn't sound like a guy who is very upset with how the supreme court ruled today. instead, the biden-harris campaign blamed trumps justices in a statement that makes clear they no longer see the conservative majority on the supreme court as anything other than an arm of donald trump's republican party and its maga agenda. weapons of war have no place on the streets of america, but trumps justices have decided the gun lobby is more important than the safety of our kids and ur communities. donald trump, through his words, his actions, and his supreme court nominees, makes it clear every day that he doesn't care if the american people live or die at the hands of weapons of war on our treets.do trump only cares about the safety, security and freedom of one person, donald trump. it is telling who called on congress to band bump stocks after the court's ruling today. president biden, vice president harrison democratic leaders did. do you know who did not? donald trump, and neither did the republican sycophants who rallied around him during his return, his first return to capitol hill since he incited an insurrection on january 6. trumps justices are also helping donald trump avoid accountabilityo re for january delaying their decision on his claim that he has absolute immunity from prosecution for his efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election. my first guesstimate, democratic congressman jamie raskin recently reminded voters that supreme court is also on the ballot,ai by posting this. justice alito turned the flag upside down. donald trump turned the bible upside down. maggie turned the capital upside down. the roberts court turned the constitution uptight -- upside down. let's set america right side up in november. joining me now is democratic congressman jamie raskin of macon. he is a constitutional law professor who served on the january 6 committee and his elite impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of donald trump. it's great to see you, as always. your assessment of the truck ar justices opinion this morning? >> well, it was outrageous, of course. it was not just justice sotomayor who said that this bird clock like a duck and walks like a duck. it was the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, and so it was the governing agency which said that wotik a semiautomatic weapon equipped with a bump stock operates exactly like a machine gun and should be treated that way, and of course, it was in the wake of that las vegas massacre where 58 people were destroyed, and more than 500 wounded.d e fundamentally altering the lives of hundreds of people, and snuffing out the lives of 58 of them. trump, at that point, pretended at least to support that action as a substitute for universal violent criminal background check in for a complete ban on military style assault weapons, and now they get -- the justices he brags about implanted on the court to overturn roe versus wade also strike this regulation down, and they're not going to o do anything about it, so the flag of america they fly upside down. the flag of the nra, they fly right side up and they fly at very high, way above the rule of law, way above the constitution and the public safety of the people. >> one of the important things in today's ruling is the terminology here, and in her dissent, justice sotomayor noted and points out that every member of the majority has previously emphasized that the best way to respect congressional intent is to adhere to the ordinary understanding of the terms congress uses, and today, the majority forgets that principal and actually substitutes his own view of what constitutes a machine gun for congress. she cites each justice, and it seems like the supreme court here is trying to get off on a technicality of what the definition of a machine gun and when congress made absolutely clear what it is.f doesn't seem like these justices are making arbitrary decisions based on whether they like the law or not? >> well, the majority was splitting hairs in the interest of the nra and the hair that they split was to say that l, whereas a machine gun operates with one flip of the trigger, when you equip the semiautomatic with a bump stock, you have to maintain some backward pressure on the trigger. of course, the ats and the justices dissenting and any common sense interpretation that gun is u operating functionally, just like a machine gun, and destroys life with the efficacy and rapidity of a machine gun, as you pointed out in the beginning, and that is why we have the rule against machine guns. my right wing maga colleagues don't agree with that. they don't think there should be a rule against machine guns or tanks or any weapons. they think all of those are n'h arms under the second amendment, and their argument is that the second amendment gives you the right to overthrow the government despite the fact thatto there a half a dozen different provisions in the constitution specifically for closing and opposing insurrection, including section 3 of the 14th amendment, which says that if you've ever sworn an oath to support the constitution and you violated by engaging in insurrection or rebellion, you should never be allowed to hold federal or state office again. but, that's just one of many. you can look at article one, section 8 which says congress has the responsibility to call forth the militias of the states in order to assist press insurrections and yet the whole argument you hear from matt gaetz and jim jordan and chip roy and marjorie taylor greene all of them is that the second amendment is about giving the people the right to engage in a violent insurrection or rebellion against our own government.ma >> of course, the other big news this week is the news we actually did not hear. no immunity decision today, the supreme court once again delaying trump being held accountable for january 6. it seems like we're not going to find out that decisionth, perha maybe in the next couple of weeks but certainly we did not find it out this week. aren't voters entitled to a trial before this election? >> well, we are not constitutionally entitled to a trial before the election, but the trial itself should have gone on unimpeded without the supreme court's intervention on the most ludicrous proposition that trump has advanced, which is that a former president of the united states is immune to scale criminal prosecution because is a former president, and that is specifically debunked by the text of the constitution itself, which says that if you are impeached and convicted, even in that case you can still be criminally prosecuted, but everybody has assumed in advance the idea that of course you can be prosecuted. when i took the house impeachment over to the senate in the second impeachment of donald trump, even trump's lawyers were saying look, you don't need to impeach him. you don't need to convict him. you don't need to try and convict him because he can be properly prosecuted like any other citizen can be. that was the whole essence of their argument in the second impeachment trial. now they want to take all that back and say no, of course you can'tcee eyo, prosecute a forme president, even if he engages in assassination. trump's lawyer was saying in the d.c.'s circuit yeah, he's amusing -- immune even from prosecution in assassination unless you can first impeach and convict him which gives them enough incentive just to kill off enough members of the opposition party. >> outlandish and i have to say, i think your post is perhaps the perfect distillation of what has been happening in this country, everything been turned upside down, and their chance of correcting it and turning it right side up as this november. thank you so much for joining us this evening.id joining me now, former democratic member of the house of representatives,ic debbie powell of florida running to replace rick scott in the u.s. senate. great to see you again. talk to me about why the senate is so important when it comes to the courts and we are seeing were played out today with the supreme court? >> we are seeing the results of those trump appointees and really rejecting s the court's opinion of the public. we know the majority of americans support, sense laws. this is actually an executive order that was passed under former president trump if yous remember and that is why executive orders really don't stand and that's why it is important to make sure at this point that congress acts and protects the safety of our children, protects public safety for our communities m li congressman raskin just mentioned. they are siding with the gun lobby and not doing what they need to do to protect their children's lives. that is very important, obviously, to be in the senate and make sure we keep the majority of the senate here in november,sk and the senate majority is going to run through florida.s we know we need to pick up a seat. rick scott is the most vulnerable republican we have. pulling a showing we are statistically tied at this point, but this man is someone who lies to floridians, is trying to lie his record away and he is actually right now, as we are talking about senate appointments for the judiciary, what he is doing is blocking some very significant appointments right now f in retaliation because he doesn't agree with the conviction of the former president. he is the poster child of extremism and one of the most radical members we have right now in the senate. >> it seems also like his gas lighting us. he put out an ad today vowing to protect ivf one day after he voted against protecting it. it feels like a little bit of gas lighting because any other case of believe what they do, not what they say. is there any doubt that he would just follow along with whatever trump wanted, including confirming any and all of trump's judicial nominees and not be an independent thinker? he is a maga through and through. >> absolutely. the man must think we were born yesterday, which is the day that he voted against ivf.ol here is someone that has been pushing for a national abortion ban, supports the most supreme ban on abortion in the state of florida, six-week band with hardly any exceptions for and incest but now he's using his wealth that he's been accumulating an office to lie to floridians, which is why it is so important for everyone watching tonight to make sure that he does notig get re-elect because he wants to be trump's pump it -- puppet in the senate. he will block access to contraception. he will block access to ivf so if you are watching tonight, i need you with me. go to debbie for florida and support me in this race. we are tied. this is our one pickup opportunity to make sure that we keep the senate majority so that we can, once and for all, really get rid of the extremist policies the maga agenda is trying to push through , and using rick scott is touputhe p for that. >> thank you so much. i greatly appreciate it. it's great to see you. coming up, donald trump broke the internet yesterday with one dumb sentence. milwaukee>>, where we are havin our convention is a horrible city. it was a politically stupid comment but it's at least a coherent thought. what do you do when the republican presidential nominee says i will take electrocution every single time. i'm not getting near the shark. we try to explain that next. we try to explain that next. when your gut is out of balance, your body gives you signs. so if you're frustrated with occasional bloating... ♪♪ [stomach noises] gas... or abdominal discomfort... help stop the frustration and start taking align every day. align probiotic was specifically designed by gastroenterologists to help relieve your occasional digestive upsets. so you can enjoy life. when you feel the signs, it's time to try align. i brought in ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein! those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. -ugh. -here, i'll take that. woo hoo! ensure max protein, 30 grams protein, 1 gram sugar, 25 vitamins and minerals. and a new fiber blend with a prebiotic. 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