MSNBC’s Wagner Bemoans Scalia’s ‘Deeply Emotional, Partisan Core’ in ObamaCare Dissent

Curtis Houck | June 25, 2015
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Despite getting a favorable ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on the ObamaCare case King v. Burwell, MSNBC’s Now host Alex Wagner couldn’t help but take issue with Justice Antonin Scalia as a Justice and the “bitterness and the vitriol” he employed in his dissent and lamented that it “revealed a deeply emotional, partisan core that informs Scalia's decision making.”

After taking the first part of the segment to talk about the ruling itself with Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro (Texas), Demos President Heather McGhee, and MSNBC’s All In host Chris Hayes, Wagner shifted gears when she turned to Hayes and observed that: “[T]here is something that's very evident from today's decision which is maybe the most important thing post-2016 is the Court, and who sits on it.”

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