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Transcripts for MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20220127 02:35:00

Court justice tragically passed away. this time ruth bader ginsburg. her death also came during an election year. but this time, the election was not nine months away. it was 45 days away, literally. and senator mitch mcconnell decided, yeah, all that stuff i decided about not confirming a justice in an election year, you can forget that. he proceeded to rush through the nomination of amy coney barrett at record speed. it took 27 days from tip to tail. and that, of course, is a glaring example of senator mcconnell s hypocrisy and duplicity, i m sorry to have to say that way. but it s also a precedent. and democrats said today, upon the announced retirement of justice stephen breyer that they want to confirm justice breyer s confirmation just as quickly as amy coney barrett s. meaning that they think the whole thing can be done in the month. and democrats control the senate by the thinnest of margins. but to the extent that senator ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20220127 02:07:00

Promise. reagan had floated this idea and i like cameras see him floating this idea to female republican leaders. maybe i will promise to put a woman on the supreme court, with that work? that was at the rnc in the summer of 1980, then, in october of that year, a month before the election, he made it official and he made that public pledge that he would choose a woman supreme court justice if he was elected. there had never been one before. and he went on to nominate the first female justice, sandra day o connor. in this past presidential election, candidate joe biden made a pledge of his own. justice there had never been a woman on the supreme court before ronald reagan promised it and then made it happen, there has also, to this day, never been a black woman supreme court justice. joe biden promised in the campaign this past year that he would make that happen. today, upon the retirement of ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20220127 02:49:00

Aspiration that he has pushed in the face of relentless pressure, just admit it, justice breyer, it is all just a game of politics. you are a football. step down. and he when he was pushing on that the more he dug in. so, there is a part of me that feels as though the ideas he stood for, and nina talked about this so eloquently, about bipartisanship. about cooperating, about not guam-ing on to the credit. letting someone else look good, getting results. the deep friendships he had with justice scalia, justice o connor. it feels like all of that detonated around him. he is standing there it is not partisan. at the same time he is making a really partisan retirement. those values that you just talked about, do you think that the justice in retiring in his meeting at the white house tomorrow with president biden, that he will try to shape the ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20220127 02:21:00

Justin stephen breyer was retiring. i was clue to that coverage. as pete broke that news on our air, here on msnbc. and then, after pete had concluded his reporting, i cheated on my msnbc family because i immediately wanted to jump over to npr to find what s nina tote and birx reporting would be on the announcement, knowing that with her experience as a supreme court reporter and with her deep connections to so many of the justices and those around them on the court, she would have detail and insight that no one else had. as to where this decision came from and what it will mean for the court. and indeed, all day long, her reporting for npr has been priceless. just a piece of it today quote, if he had not been a justice, hollywood might have made him up. deeply intellectual, fluent in not just law but also philosophy, art, and culture, he is also absent minded, geeky, self deprecatingly funny, physically fit, but so ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20220127 02:08:00

Longtime justice stephen breyer, that pledge from joe biden s operative. the white house is reminded of it today, since president biden plans to stick to that pledge. and yes, conservatives are going crazy about it. pretending there s absolutely no president for this, this is an outrageous thing that joe biden promised to do like ronald reagan did not exist. ronald who? it is also worth knowing, though, that when joe biden made this pledge during the campaign, a place that he is now going to live by and that will make well shape history until we got a new nominee on the court. when joe biden made this pledge, which we are now going to live by, it was a really consequential thing when he did it. it had a huge political impact when he did it. and it was also no sure thing that he was going to do it. at least by one account, his most influential staff members on the campaign told him, as ....

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