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On the Wednesday edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell offered an baffling and exhaustive defense of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s outburst against Donald Trump by pointing to the first Chief Justice’s gubernatorial election record and opining that if Ginsburg is forced to recuse herself from any election-related cases, Catholics should recuse themselves from any abortion case.
O’Donnell’s nearly-eight-minute lecture began by highlighting that talking about past Supreme Court justices in American history that have run for political office started with “very first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the legendary John Jay, ran for governor of New York twice while he was Chief Justice” and followed by three others in the centuries since.