Lawrence Explains Why Biden's SCOTUS Candidate List Must Be Short - The Last Word - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell discusses how President Biden’s short list of potential nominees for the Supreme Court would be much longer if he didn’t have to consider which of his picks could be confirmed by the “dysfunctional” 50-50 Senate: “The Senate is for realists who know how to count votes.” Aired on 01/27/2022.




Caroline Randall Williams: Black Woman On SCOTUS Would Show Democracy’s Capacity To Heal - The Last Word - MSNBC

Caroline Randall Williams tells Lawrence O’Donnell that Biden’s historic decision to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court “would be a fortification of my faith in democracy’s capacity to heal itself even after all of these radical ruptures that we’ve been witnessing over the last five, six years.” Aired on 01/27/2022.

[SheltieLover]

1. Well, isn't Lawrence the kind person

To describe the Senate as merely dysfunctional is quite generous, imo.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. And interesting fact about Caroline Randall Williams, Lawrence's guest in the second video

She is the great-great grand-daughter of Edmund Pettus, who was a grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and U.S. Senator from Alabama, and the one for whom that infamous bridge was named!

[SheltieLover]

3. Indeed!

How they source these folks is beyond me!

[Rhiannon12866]

4. The point is that she's a progressive African American, while her great great grandfather was a

Notorious Klan leader...

[SheltieLover]

6. 😳🤯

[Magoo48]

5. Two words for the Senate come to mind for me--vestigial structure.