
Tonight's citations are listed after the jump.
Windsor v. United States Briefs - Briefs in Opposition to DOMA - Former Military Officials (pdf)
Bush v. Gore Set to Outlast Its Beneficiary
A Candid Conversation With Sandra Day O'Connor: 'I Can Still Make a Difference'
Five candidates qualify for Massachusetts Senate primaries
Massachusetts AFL-CIO won't endorse a candidate in Democratic primary for John Kerry's Senate seat
MassGOP To Host U.S. Senate Straw Poll – March 2
State Representative Dan Winslow wins Republican straw poll for US Senate
GOP Senate Hopeful Who Blasted Yacht Club Event Served On Yacht Club Board
Daniel Winslow disclosure form (pdf)
What the Keystone Pipeline Protest Looks Like in Texas
Keystone pipeline protesters arrested in Texas
Keystone XL protesters blockade themselves inside pipeline
In Need of Deficit Plan, Congress Opts for Several
Sen. Levin: Sequestration a 'sword of Damocles' hanging over Defense
House continuing resolution to restore $7B to military operations
House Releases Continuing Resolution That Keeps Sequester Cuts in Place
As Automatic Budget Cuts Go Into Effect, Poor May Be Hit Particularly Hard





Please post the Dr. Anonymous photo!
Rachel, you of all people! I just watched todays Hardball clips via the msnbc.com site while traveling. And when I went to the TRMS site?? Last weeks show. Are you serious? Come on!!!
What are you talking about? What site was this? I see you posted at 9:38pm on Monday, so the most recent show would be last week's Friday show since the new Monday show was still airing when you posted. Hardball, having finished airing by 6 would easily have its clips up by 9:30 so a new show would be on offer there.
Is that what you mean?
Let's just say we're very thankful the Maddow Blog did not follow the new format for the MSNBC website, and the web pages for the other shows like "Hardball".
Looking at that mess will scatter your brain enough to be prompted to post as peter did. :)
Blockbuster show-Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, AND, Montgomery Police Chief apologizing 51 years later for damages, hurts, insults, to John Lewis, and the entire nation! I am 69 years old and I saw all of the 1960s Civil Rights movement on TV, live, totally appalled and participated directly whenever possible while growing up in CA. I never ever thought I would see the day the Montgomery, Alabama, sheriff would embrace John Lewis and call him what he is: a courageous American hero! Your interview, and the Sheriff's statements today comprise one of the nation's most historic moments. Thank you to The Rachel Maddow Show. I am overwhelmed. I too felt I wanted to take the Sheriff's class and loved it when you shared that sentiment. Never stop doing what you do, Rachel!
House continuing resolution to restore $7B to military operations
I submit this was their plan all along. They will fight tooth and nail to keep cuts for the people and whine about Democrats blocking funding for their pet programs.
I was very moved by the sheriff's appreciation of Congressman Lewis' courage. It reminded me that I even though I only hear about bad people in the south, there are good people there, too.
It was a very nice interview with Sandra Day O'Connor. She seems resolute and obviously doesn't regret her time on the court.
I felt she was living in a different reality, when she said that even though what Justices say may be considered partisan by the "lay crowd" they still rule objectively and based on how they interpret the law they are ruling on.
I'm glad she believes that, but it's a hard time convincing the rest of us that the court will do the right thing based on the law, and not how anyone (especially the Justices) feels about it.
Justices must be able to maintain a distinction between the objective interpretation of law, and temper their personal opinions at the same time. Using phrases like "racial entitlement" doesn't go far in convincing the "lay crowd" they are not ruling by political affiliation. It truly is a double edged sword.
anybody else think morning joe is an embarrassment to MSNBC, I hate that show so much, Joe is a revisionist who got schooled last night in the "debate" which I thought was hilarious. Joe words admitted that the republican deficit hawks are disingenuous and dead wrong but he and sometimes Mr. Rose acted like Dr. Krugman was wrong but I digress. Morning Joe is the worst show ever - just tune in to get your facts muddled into a strange mess of half truths on one point used as arguments to other points in one of the most uninformed shows ever. Joe has delusions of grandeur regarding his understanding of well anything and everyone else on the show just looks like a deer in the headlights - Mika is his strange "show wife" who every once in a while strongly makes some obvious point that she is upset about but for the most part tries to support her goofy "show husband" and that younger pudgy faced guys seems like their spaced out demon seed.
The Sandra Day O'Connor interview was a horrible white-washing of whats going on in the court. Really - the judges are part of normal society and feel whats going on? That must be a joke. They read the press? Scalia obviously reads Breitbart and listens to Fox - are we callin that proper press now?
And those guys are not activist? It's just by chance that they mostly hang around Koch-brothers events.
And really - their totally impartial judgements are only seen as political just because people misunderstand? Where did she live the last 5 years? Did she hear the racism of Scalia just the other day?
Well, I guess from someone who made Bush president ... we can't expect to hear anything else.
I really wish Rachel would not much turn into a coward when interviewing people of power. That devalues all her confronting interviews with people once they're clearly on the other side.
I felt the same. Judges are appointed, or elected, politically and do not need to pretend to be bipartisan (especially those who want to get elected again) but do need to justify their actions to themselves as objective. The SCOTUS record is clearly partisan. AND it is human nature to defensively over-respond to criticism by determining to be even more of what you're being criticized for. There was no way Rachel could cajole SDOC into admitting anything was amiss in the court.
On the Keystone pipeline. DURING the election when they were beating Obama for slowing it down, it was UNDER CONSTRUCTION in Texas and they arrested Darryl Hannah for protesting. The whole pipeline doesn't go up in a day - we're not playing with LEGOs. Did the media miss this during the campaign? Would this have been a moment to ask Romney what's his complaint about a pipeline that's under construction - with pictures?
This link shares the story of the apology from the man who beat Rep. Lewis in Rock Hill SC while on the Freedom Ride. The Montgomery Police Chief was not the first to apologize.
http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/11/03/4387125/rock-hill-man-who-apologized-for.html