Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz, joins Joy Reid with her call for more help for the ravaged island of Puerto Rico, and to respond to the president’s tweets slamming her leadership. Duration: 7:15
U.S. Virgin Islands still struggling to recover from hurricanes
AM Joy 9/30/17
Rep. Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands tells Joy Reid of the low morale spawned by what she describes as the ineffective hurricane recovery efforts orchestrated under Donald Trump. Duration: 4:38
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, and Florida congressional candidate Pamela Keith discuss Donald Trump’s tweets bashing San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz. Duration: 12:11
Alabama Republicans picked the controversial Roy Moore over the mainstream party’s objections. What does this mean for the future of the GOP? Duration: 6:25
Joy Reid and her panel discuss how the president’s Twitter response to the mayor of San Juan is being widely received, versus how it may be interpreted by his base of supporters. Duration: 13:09
Joy Reid is joined by FOX Sports reporter Pam Oliver and more on the NFL owners and players displaying acts of unity in the face of Donald Trump criticizing the peaceful protests of some players during games. Duration: 11:31
What’s the latest Trump-Russia investigation news?
AM Joy 9/30/17
Rep. Eric Swalwell and MSNBC analyst Malcolm Nance join Joy Reid to discuss the latest in the Russia investigation, and the next steps as the probe moves into new territory. Duration: 10:46
President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) speaks with Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant), Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (Melissa Villaseñor) of San Juan, Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) and Senator Chuck Schumer (Alex Moffat).
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, including President Donald Trump’s poor response to Hurricane Maria. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Kate McKinnon) stops by.
[originally aired September 30, 2017 (U.S. central time)]
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, including the latest Republican healthcare bill. Guy Who Just Bought a Boat (Alex Moffat) and Guy Who Just Joined Soho House (Ryan Gosling) stop by.
How Badly Is Neil Gorsuch Annoying the Other Supreme Court Justices? In 2009 and 2010, Virginia Thomas became an outspoken opponent of the new President, Barack Obama. Ginni Thomas, as she is known, travelled the country as a leader of the growing Tea Party movement, which was particularly focussed on overturning the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Around the same time, legal challenges to the law were working their way to the Supreme Court, where Ginni’s husband, Clarence Thomas, serves. Media attention began to focus on the propriety of such a close association between a Justice and a public adversary of a law whose fate was before the Court. Then, shortly before the A.C.A. case came before the Justices, in 2012, something happened. Ginni Thomas stopped her public advocacy; indeed, she has virtually disappeared from public view in the past few years. Why? Neither Thomas has ever addressed the issue publicly, but it’s possible to offer some informed speculation. The Justices, and especially Chief Justice John Roberts, are assiduous defenders of the Court’s reputation. As savvy denizens of Washington, D.C., they understand the political dimension of their work, but they are careful to avoid any taint of outside political activity that might raise questions about their ethics. This view is shared across the ideological spectrum at the Court, as the Justices believe, with some reason, that an attack on one of them could quickly expand into an attack on all. So did the Chief Justice suggest to Justice Thomas, in a gentle and deferential way, that perhaps his wife’s activities were reflecting poorly on the Court? And did Clarence and Ginni Thomas subsequently decide that she might dial back her outspoken role? It seems more than possible. The retreat of Ginni Thomas brings to mind the emergence of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. Earlier this week, Gorsuch gave a speech before the Fund for American Studies, a conservative educational and advocacy group. The Justices do occasionally speak before groups with high political profiles. Most of the Justices on the conservative wing have appeared in front of the Federalist Society, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Stephen G. Breyer have addressed the American Constitution Society, the Federalists’ liberal counterpart. What made Gorsuch’s appearance especially notable was that it took place at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, which is the focus of several pending cases that may well wind up before the Supreme Court. These lawsuits allege that the Trump family’s ownership of the hotel, which is patronized by foreigners with interests before the executive branch, violates the emoluments clause of the Constitution. Gorsuch’s presence at the hotel could look like an endorsement of the propriety of its ownership arrangements. Gorsuch’s Trump Hotel speech followed one he gave at the University of Louisville, where he was introduced by Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, who was, more than anyone, responsible for blocking Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the seat that Gorsuch now occupies. Gorsuch rewarded McConnell not only with an appearance in the senator’s home town but with a speech that underlined the Justice’s own conservative approach to the law. There is nothing unlawful about Gorsuch’s speeches, though it’s hard to say just what the ethical rules are for Supreme Court Justices. They are exempt from the code that governs the conduct of other federal judges, so the Court has traditionally relied on informal self-policing. There is a strong internal culture based on the idea that no Justice should embarrass the Court; Gorsuch’s tiptoeing up to the line of advocacy for and gratitude to conservatives might earn some advice from the Chief Justice to mind the unwritten rules. Gorsuch’s speeches might appear less distasteful to his colleagues if he had made an otherwise more graceful début on the Court. As Linda Greenhouse observed in the Times the end of Gorsuch’s first term, he managed to violate the Court’s traditions as soon as he arrived. He dominated oral arguments, when new Justices are expected to hang back. He instructed his senior colleagues, who collectively have a total of a hundred and forty years’ experience on the Court, about how to do their jobs. Dissenting from a decision that involved the interpretation of federal laws, he wrote, “If a statute needs repair, there’s a constitutionally prescribed way to do it. It’s called legislation.” Perhaps he thought that the other Justices were unfamiliar with this thing called “legislation.” Gorsuch also expressed ill-disguised contempt for Anthony Kennedy’s landmark opinion legalizing same-sex marriage in all fifty states. Earlier this year, the Court’s majority overturned an Arkansas ruling that the state could refuse to put the name of a birth mother’s same-sex spouse on their child’s birth certificate. Dissenting, Gorsuch wrote, “Nothing in Obergefell spoke (let alone clearly) to the question.” That “let alone clearly” reflected a conservative consensus that Kennedy’s opinion was a confusing mess. Perhaps Gorsuch will, as the years pass, prove to be a more clubbable colleague; or perhaps he’ll decide, at least socially, to go his own way. But what’s already clear is his ideology as a Justice. In his first fifteen cases on the Court, as the number-crunchers at FiveThirtyEight discovered, he joined Thomas, the most right-wing Justice, every time—and he even joined all of Thomas’s concurring opinions. Gorsuch’s outside activities may draw a private word from the Chief Justice, but Roberts would never presume (or want) to change Gorsuch’s votes. And the new Justice is casting those just as his sponsors had hoped and his opponents had feared. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-badly-is-neil-gorsuch-annoying-the-other-supreme-court-justices [with embedded links]
America's worst mom: [White] Mother left four kids, aged six to 12, at home alone with a GUN and went on vacation to Germany with a friend for ELEVEN DAYS (but they could always follow her on Instagram!) Johnston, Iowa police say a local mother left her four kids, ages six to 12, home alone on September 20 while she took a trip to Germany Police received a tip about the unsupervised children a day after Erin Lee Macke, 30, left the country When they conducted a welfare check on the house, they found the kids alone and an unloaded handgun left on top of the dresser in the master bedroom Police called Macke in Germany, and she admitted that she left her kids alone when all of her babysitters fell through She said she didn't plan to return until October 1 Police ordered her to come home, but she only cut her trip short four days She was taken into custody after returning to the U.S. Wednesday night Macke now faces four counts of child endangerment and one count of making a firearm available to a person under the age of 21 Her eldest children, 12-year-old twins, are with unspecified family members while her younger daughters, six and seven, are with their dad Public records show she divorced a Matthew Macke in 2013 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4933206/Mom-left-four-kids-home-went-Germany.html
Irish abortion law: Tens of thousands march for change Tens of thousands of people have marched through Dublin to demand change to the Republic of Ireland's abortion laws. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41452712
Trumpoor achievements: Trump loses health chief, Obamacare vote, GOP primary in one week
The Beat With Ari Melber 9/29/17
In one week, Donald Trump lost his health secretary, a GOP primary and a key Obamacare battle all during the ongoing Puerto Rico crisis. Duration: 4:28
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