Know, that the supreme court normally operates under, you know, that those who know don t tell really seems to be breaking down. the very fact that we ve had now leaks, not months or years after the decision, but really even before the decision came down, in regard to the, as what glenn correctly referred to, as to the shenanigans taking place in terms of the process in which this decision was made, i think is a kind of extraordinary comment on the degree to which now the court is being overtly politicized in a way that i think is pretty much unprecedented in american league history. and glenn, john fund wrote in the national review today from his own sources. there is an amazing amount of leak going around here, and i think the people who are claiming to have sources there are credible. that they do have sources. yeah, ramesh, he s a conservative commentator, but also extremely credible and well regarded on both sides of the
In giving us the rights, the human dignity. i mean, that s why every person has human dignity, but the fact is that the vatican, pope benedict xvi recognizes that things like health care are a right of all individuals in a modern society. and those rights evolve over time. we work it out from what human dignity is, and then you apply it in the current circumstance. so a right to health care is very much at the core of catholic social teaching. e.j., this seems to be a critical point here, where some catholics take firm scripture, from the life of jesus christ, that they should participate in a generous way through government in social programs. and others say, no, no, because this was the work of jesus christ, it had nothing to do with government and there s nothing in the life and work of jesus christ to indicate how government should run.
Triumphant return to the last word, sister simone campbell, the executive director of the national catholic social justice lobby, and e.j. dionne, a senior fellow at the brookings institution, and the author of our divided political heart. he s also an msnbc political analyst and he is the last word s senior catholic analyst. sister simone, can t wait to hear about this. you knock on paul ryan s door, you want to sit down with him and discuss theology and the theology of social justice. you can take all the time you want. tell us just word for word how it went for paul ryan. well, it s quite a short little comment. we met with his staff, the staff took copious notes, we haven t heard a word back. we did get an e-mail just recently saying, yes, there s interest in a meeting. we re trying to set one up when he s back in d.c. next week. e.j. dionne, i m afraid this is not of the way i was taught to receive nuns when i was being
Nicole kidman divorce from tom cruise? you know, nicole kidman was raised as a roman catholic as was katie holmes. as was katie holmes. and by the way, they were both 33 years old when the divorces happened. but nicole kidman allegedly did not want her kids raised as scientologists, and that is allegedly one of the reasons that she left and she doesn t practice scientology anymore. and the question is, and many published reports out there, that this all came down now possibly because of a couple of reasons. one, we ll talk about the scientology angle, and that is that suri, their 6-year-old daughter, is about to get into school and start her education, and there are published reports that tom cruise wanted her to get into this sect of scientology when the kids get in there very, very young. and do they have a school for that yeah, they have a school. and they dpbegin their long roa of education. it s sort of a camp. and the church of scientology
But romney care on steroids, right? right. and it s also a policy that came out of the heritage institute a long time. so it s actually a right-leaning policy that has been contorted for liberal purposes. so they ve been boxed in in terms of this usage of the word tax . but there s a conversation we should be having over the supreme court decision, and that s the implications of the medicaid ruling. what does it mean to curb federal power? what are the long-term implications of that? we don t really know, but that s the conversation we should be having. and ezra, this was the piece that i thought had to constitutional problem at all. because we ve done so many changes, expansions of medicaid over time. but this time, they said, no, no. this is a change in the nature of the program, which i don t think it is. but this is a possibly much bigger impact in terms of what the coverage might end up being, than even the mandate was going to be. and they did, to be fair, they only changed the way of an enforcement penalty. what they said, the federal government couldn t take away all the state s pre-existing medicaid money if it didn t go
Political spectrum, and what he was describing is is certainly what he was hearing. and as it turns out, it was quite precient. and the only people who could be saying this is clerks. and even what you referred to earlier, the reference to justice ginsberg as a dissent, this is not a mistake that supreme court justices, with all the checks on their opinions just simply make accidentally. they deliberately left that in there. a suggestion that it was sort of a way of signaling to the public that this shift was we were winning. right. and it was sort of a last-minute thing, and look at what john roberts did. i think that s a really credible theory. paul campos and glenn greenwald, thank you both very much for joining me tonight. thank you. coming up, it s religion night here on the last word. we ll be joined by one of the nuns on the bus, and the last word s senior catholic analyst, e.j. dionne. and later, freedom of religion
I think, a close to unprecedented situation. and glen, what professor campos calls the strange treatment of the ginsberg opinion is that the dissent refers to the ginsberg dissent. the ginsberg opinion was a concurring opinion with the majority. this is yet another clue that they that that opinion, when the dissent with was first written, dpiginsberg was in the minority. yeah, we don t know exactly what went on here. i have great regard for professor campos, and i m sure someone in the court have told him this, just as people have told jan crawford something a little bit different. i m sure people have different agendas. but what he s right about is that this opinion is extremely strange. and a lot of legal experts reacted exactly the way i did, that he did, that something happened here that is very unprecedented. and i think it s really important to keep in mind how much political pressure was on the court for this case.
The bill was ruled on, i ve, shocked by it. the supreme court did two things, they did nothing to change the individual mandate, the way it works. that bill is exactly the same, as unpopular as it was before. and they did change the medicare part, and what everybody wants to talk about is whether or not we re going to call this thing a tax or a penalty, when it works in the same way we thought it would, when it raises a small amount of money, and will probably be paid by about 1% of americans. it is to me just like appalling. i can t believe so many people have fallen for this spin. and now republicans have got themselves caught in knots over it and have to spend more days talking about what it is. republicans chase that word tax, because that s their favorite word. if we can hit you with a tax rap politically, and democrats fear the word tax. terrified of it. horribly. so we understand the politics of it. but then this is the first time it cannot work for the republicans, because of romney. well, right. because obama care is nothing
You can rent a car without a reservation. and without a line. now that s a fast car. it s just another way you ll be traveling at the speed of hertz. in the rewrite tonight, well, bill o reilly finally said he s an idiot. who did he? let s take another look at bill o reilly promising to call himself an idiot if the supreme court found that the individual mandate is constitutional. this is absolutely a mandate. it s absolutely a force. it s absolutely police powers from the federal government. and it s going to be 5-4. and if i m wrong, i will come on and i will play your clip and i will apologize for being an idiot. and then when the supreme court found the individual mandate constitutional, bill o reilly took the day off. but he did call in to his own show and do a phone interview with the substitute host, in which he never quite got around
The supreme court who s telling me that justice roberts is going a little bit wobbly. yeah, lawrence. i think what s really interesting about this is that the sort of code of oherta, you know, that the supreme court normally operates under, you know, that those who know don t tell really seems to be breaking down. the very fact that we ve had now leaks, not months or years after the decision, but really even before the decision came down, in regard to the, as what glenn correctly referred to, as to the shenanigans taking place in terms of the process in which this decision was made, i think is a kind of extraordinary comment on the degree to which now the court is being overtly politicized in a way that i think is pretty much unprecedented in american league history. and glenn, john fund wrote in the national review today from his own sources. there is an amazing amount of leak going around here, and i