Jonathan Capehart, the fill-in host for Thursday evening’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC, reacted to the morning’s news of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case by launching personal attacks on the justices who had voted against it. He especially condemned their race and political ideologies as reasons that they had voted the way that they did.
The discussion began with Capehart calling the Supreme Court a “radical conservative” one, whining about the “decades of advancements in women’s rights and civil rights” that had been undone. He called the Court’s recent actions “in line with an extreme far-right agenda that’s wildly out of step with public opinion.”