enough of its young voters and voters registered to the polls would actually predict democrats. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow" show starts right now. >> two very important supreme court things just happened over the weekend. the supreme court is a fairly stayed and predictable institution. the justices, after all, have lifetime apointments. things usually happen on a fairly predictable time frame. which doesn't include weekend surprises at really weird hours. but nay keep doing it. and this, for some reason, this session of the court for whatever reason has lots of surprising. particularly in terms of timing and weird hours. this weekend, two important supreme court things happened. one of them did happen at the court. we'll get to that one in a second. but the other really important thing at the court this weekend happened on hbo.

>> what happened to the supreme court is way too important not to pay attention to. and that is why this week we spent an incredible amount of time and an almost immoral amount of resources to produce an entire supreme court settle down. one of the common cases is hobbs versus hobbs. it's about whether an inmate can tripe his beard for security reasons. you may say i don't want to hear a discussion about that. really? don't you? >> well, let's assume i'm in a religion that requires polygamy. i mean, could i say to the prison guard, okay, i won't have three wives, just let me have two wives? you're still violating his

religion if you allow his beard to be clipped to one inch, isn't it? >> be honest. you now want to hear the entire hour long oral argument. no. no. no. but i will give you just another taste. as far as searching, why can't he just give him a comb and say comb your beard. >> that is why tonight, as a public service, we are releasing raw video at this address of club stops, medium shots and wide shots from our real animals fake supreme court. and we are inviting all news networks to use this footage to make supreme court arguments more compelling to watch. we have all nine justices for you. roberts, skelea, kennedy, thomas, ginnsburke.

sotomayo and kagan, who i warn you, would not sit still. and we have almost everything you need for full coverage. you need jugs tis olito taking notes. done, not a problem. you need ginnsburg adjusti inin glasses, not a problem. you put a water glass in front of my dog, maybe he would drink it. and, in fact, if you go to their youtube page, they have published 10 :21 silent secondings of the exact footage they promised. they have all the dogs together, they have all the justices one-by-one. it's totally silent. they have a chicken being a court stenographer, they have a duck taking notes.

they have dogs sitting in as lawyers. the idea is you use this visual footage to cut together your own visuals of the audio tape when day release the supreme court arkmenteds. and that makes everyone want to watch it. i am not allowed to speak for the news department here, but part of the reason why is if i were in charge of the news division here, i would totally do this. i would totally use dogs with fake paws to reenact supreme court oral arkments. that's when i will they don't let me make decisions or speak for anyone around here. that said, this now exists in our nation's arsenal the other big supreme court thing that happened this weekend actually happened at the court.

the other thing that happened at the supreme court is that gu e innsburg stayed up all night. they issued at 5:00 a.m. on saturday morning. it was an unsigned order for the majority of the court. but it was accompanied by a blistering desent written by and signed by justice ruth ginnsburg. and that all went out before the sun came up on saturday morning. and that is a weird time to get a court order. an interview already scheduled for later this weekend, for sunday night, last night. and in that interview, explained, that, yes, the weird timing on that order meant that at least one justice, 81-year-old ruth baiter ginnsburg was up all night in order to get that order out. specifically, in order to get out her desent on that case. >> so, justice ginnsburg, you

were up until 5:00 a.m. friday night, saturday morning. writing a passionate desent in the voter id case. you wrote. you were joined by justices kagan and sotomayor. why did you write? and why did it take until 5:00 in the morning? we didn't get the last filing

from texas until friday morning. and then the circuit has to write a memo. and that came sometime in the middle of the afternoon. so there wasn't much time to write the decent. i had written a decent in the north carolina voting rights case. this one was, i would say it was very well reasoned, you called it passionate. >> yeah, i was up until 5:00 in the morning doing great work; didn't you read it? that was a live event at the 92 nt striet y in new york city. talking about why she basically pulled an all-nighter on friday night in order to put out her decent in a voting rights ruling in which the court handed down its order at 5:00 a.m. on saturday. now, the majority from the court means the strictest voter id law in the country will be in effect

for voting in this election > it's interesting. well, in her decent, her up-all-night decent, the texas law is so out ray yously discriminatory, that it aublgt to be blocked anyway. in her decent, she chastises to let them go ahead.

she says the texas law may prevent more than 600,000 registered voters, about 4.5% in the state, she says a sharonly disproportion gnat percent of these voters are african american or hispanic. wow. >> they didn't explain themselves at all.

they didn't write a word about deciding the way she did. she didn't have to burn the midnight oil. this had to come out in a rush. they got all of their last filings on friday. they had to have the order out as early as possible this weekend. because in-person voting started in texas today. they had to move on it. >> whether or not it is racially repugnant. until they were able to rule on its merits, this will be the first big law despite the all-night efforts to the contrary. our early voting in underway in texas. all-in-all, it's 34 states plus the district of columbia.

one of the states is illinois. he has a job called president of the united states. in 20 12, president obama became the first president to ever sit for an early vote. there, with a lot of excitement, he cast his ballot. >> all right. i'm here to vote. >> vote democrat. >> i can't say nothing about that. the most important office in a democratic government. the office of the citizen.

>> e have to early vote. >> mr. president, i have to pronounce your name. >> please do. squl barack obama. >> that's me. >> this is so exciting. >> i love voting. >> once the president got to the point where he started voting. a weird thing happened. he ended up alongside a young woman who was also there to early vote. did you see this? the boyfriend said something to president obama while he was standing there voting. and the boyfriend said something that you would not expect somebody to say to the president of the united states. at least his girlfriend really

did not expect him to say this. the reaction from the girlfriend and the president was amazing. watch. blapg blank

. this is not happening. no, that really happened. after somebody told the president, don't touch my girlfriend. the reason president obama was out there in illinois meeting the folks and doing that sort of stunt about early voting because of how important early voting is to the democratic strategy for this year's elections, was, of course, famously a key part of the re-election strategy in 292012 to essentially bank early votes on election day. they could check people off of their list once they voted. try to turn them out as the clock clicked closer to election day. in 2012, if you look at just the votes cast on election day, for example, in the state of iowa, on election day, mitt romney won the state of iowa. if you only counted the votes that were cast that day. but democrats, according to the

strategy, had prbanked so many early votes in iowa, that when you put the numbers together, all together, the president had one mistake. so extrapolating from the numbers in 2012, lots of people this year are very excited that iowa this year has banked a record number of early votes. and they have banked a record number of earl votes in iowa this year. this year, it is not all clear which votes those are. the democrats are keeping up their traditional effort. but the republicans are stepping it up, too. particularly, the coke brothers funded americans for prosperity group. they're focusing on trying to turn out the early vote as well. this year, there's a big, hugely important senate race in iowa. there's been huge early voting numbers in iowa. but nobody knows what that means, in terms of who is going to win the iowa senate race. i mean, the overall political science common wisdom is that high voter turnout tends to hurt

democrats and hurt republicans. but how do you extrap late that into individual election years? the u.s. elections project at the university of florida. they've been monitoring the weekly returns from all the states that are reporting early voting numbers so far this year. the director of the u.s. elections project told the washington post today that looking at the numbers that are in, coast-to-coast, so far -- again, that's good news for democrats. but there's nothing about the democrats themselves, the numbers that are in so far, that would say that this is good news for democrats so far. for a sense of how hard it is to figure out right now and how false nating it is to look at these numbers right now, just look at florida. florida has this big governor's race this year. 20 so was the last time rick scott was looking for governor in florida. republicans were 49% of early

voting that year. dem cats were 37%. on election day itsd, the result of that was that rick scott won in a squeaker. he won by just over 1 pn. so now look at this year. next midterm year, 2014. overall, the raw number, huge. huge voter turnout. more than three quarters of a million people have banked their early votes in florida. this year, the proportions are almost identical. so what does that mean? can you extrapolate from what we know who's voted already to know who's likely to win on election day. this is the home stretch. president obama voting hymns today. how much of this election has already happened. and what can it tell us about how it's going for both sides. join us now is emily schultice.

thanks very much for being here. appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me. am i getting your name right? >> you are. you are. i'm impress. >> victory already. all right, good. that will be it. ; so early voting is now underway in all be 14 states. >> there are some states where you get party registration and there's other that are not so clear. it really is different from state by statement as you noted before, democrats have well-known and well documented ground games.

when we look at some of those record numbers, that said, republicans have said said they're going to invest and already are investing record amounts of money into their own programs and into their own ground game operations. so that kind of muddies the water for us. sfwh we've paid so much attention in terms of restrictions on access to the polls. whether it's things like voter id, which can determine who's allowed to vote and who's not to. do the rules change enough from election to election that it makes it hard to compare whether or not these numbers look good for democrats or republicans

>> it's certainly tough to tell. we won't know what the effect of some of these voter restrictions. that said, i think the one thing that particularly, not even just the restrictions put in place or struck down, but the fact that there's been so much churn late in the game here, states like north carolina, states like texas that you mentioned, all of these states have seen extraordinary changes in the ways and times in which voters can go to the polls. so that certainly doesn't help when you're thinking about trying to make sure that people know when they can vote, how they can vote, what they can do to vote. confusion obviously doesn't get people to the polls. >> i think that's the concern driving the principle's reoex of the court. they're balancing that against, you know, whether or not these restrictions are so discriminatory.

we've got lots more ahead, including an almost unheard of moment of genuine bravery in politics. bravery and humility together in our politics? seriously, it happened. that's next.

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in the 19 80s, there was a senator named macmathias. he would warn that the party was drifting too far to the right, would criticize for alienating young people in the authorities. he was sort of an out cast in his own party. in 1985, republicans got their chance to replace him. they got their chance to get a real conservative into that seat. >> charles mack mathias said he has decided not to run for reelection next year. there are two republican candidates being mentioned. columnist and commentator george will and former u.n. ambassador, kirkpatrick. >> george will did not end up running for the senate that year. he decided to stay as a tv talking head where he remains today.

ours to pity. now he has picked himself a fight that he is losing in a way that turns out to be great for the country. and that unexpectedly good news is coming up. stay with us.

this is such a great story. this is walter robinson. walter robinson is an old time reporter in boston. he said yesterday that walter

robinson is one to have those investigative reporters whose names you do not want to see on your call sheet when you come back from lunch. looking around for recognition of walter robinson's work today in the boston press and there's a lot of it. this is him being named the best reporter in that city by boston magazine back in 1983. walter robinson has done good, but the reason he was getting all that praise in 1983 was because he blew up the gubernatorial campaign of this guy in 1982. john lakio. really rich guy. running for republican governor in massachusetts in 1982 until the boston globe turned up the fact that john lakian was telling tales about a lot of things. but the one really sticking was the one he lied about hill tear service. he'd been saying that he received a battlefield promotion

in vietnam which is the sort of thing you get for extraordinary behavior on the battlefield in combat. turns out he got no such thing. and walter robinson at the boston globe nailed him. and john lakian did not become governor. then, four years later, time for another governor's election in massachusetts and walter robinson does it again. or, rather, the massachusetts republican party does it again when they pick another guy with the same kind of problems as their candidate for governor. again, this time, four years after john lakian. it was a republican state rep named royal switzler. and when it came time for him to lie about his military service, he laid them out. he said he was a green beret. he was not. he said he had been an advisor to a south vietnamese battalion in the vietnam war. he was not. he talked about his service in the veet nap war. turns out he did not serve in the vietnam war.

the sum total of his veet nap experience was that he had visited the country once before the war there on a ten-day vacation while he was on leave from non-combat duty somewhere else. and walter robinson nailed him for it. and so royal switzler did not welcome dwov nor of massachusetts just like john lakian did not, either. and reporter robinson who nailed them both? he is a vietnam vet. for general rations now, when they have lied to refor their political careers, he has been there to tack them to the wall and make them pay for it. he is not kidding around. walter robinson is still around. still at the globe. and he just broke a story that is the ante dote to all of that dishonorable muck that has such a great career. get this. this is seth molton. served as a u.s. marine in iraq.

he's running for congress now in one of the congressional districts that's actually a competitive district. he beat out john tyrnny to get the democratic chair this year. he talks about being a u.s. marine. he talks about volunteering to go to iraq as a marine, every though politically he opposed the war in iraq. but what seth molton did in iraq during his tours there has been a little vague on the campaign trail. and you know what, there's a reporter at the boston globe who's really good about digging stuff up. so walter robinson took a look and decided he'd dig in and find out. he'd dig into seth molton's military records. and what he found, speaks for itself. this is an amazing story. here's waterer robinson in the globe this weekend.

. so, yeah, right? he was lying about his service. that's the story walter robinson has had to right over and over and over begun. in this case, it's a lie only about omission because he didn't want to tell people about the awards he's received for combat heroism and bravery. so what's the opposite of scandal? here it is. he received the bronze star medal for valor. the marine and army valor medal.

exceptional dedication to duty. in an interview with the boston cloeb, he considers it unseemly to discuss his own awards for valor. there is a healthy disrespect among veterans who walk around telling war stories. only his campaign manager knew of the awards before the globe asked for citations on wednesday. this doesn't happen, right? this is not dog bites man, this is man biting dog. candidate keeps something out of the public eye because of humility.

>> so god bless the boston globe for keeping them honest about that of all things. i don't know if seth molton is going to win this race. but this happening over the course of his canvassing, is, itself, a defeat for cynicism. there is hope for us all. thank you. we never would have known. ♪

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in 2012, 4,000 people in his district wrote in this name. charles darwin got 4,000 votes. that was fun. look, from the desk of congressman paul brown, ban travel from africa. keep us free from ebola. this pe digs has to travel faster. and by travel faster, what paul brown means is that you should get out of your seats and send him money. please chip in $5 or $10 to help us distribute this petition. send money to a georgia republican congressman who's leaving the house this year. that's kind of how things are going right now on the right in congress. here's how things are going on the right on tv. >> in fact, there are doctors who are saying that in a sneeze

or a cough, some of the airborne particles can be infectious. >> this is what i think is really important. that facts about the disease do not lead to panic. so far, every expert that i've seen -- >> every expert that you've seen. i've got experts that say ebola is airborne. commentator george wolf said he was getting his invitation from, specifically, the university of minnesota. saying no, that's not us. don't put that on us. they have, not made claims that ebola is airborne. so we do have that bit of good news. ebola is still scary even

without george will making it up as he goes along on tv. but we are getting to some good news about this terrible story. the freelance camera man is reportedly on the mend. doctors say he may be able to go home in a few days. he tweeted tonight that his long recovery has been humbling. he's been lucky and very happy to be alive. the anonymous patient they have been treating there since september 9th is finally free of the vie russ and well enough to go home, as well. that will open up another bed. amid them, we have dozens who have now reached the end of their 21 days of monitoring without getting sick. so that's also good news. apg rk the nithomas eric dwun

can's fiance and the rest of the family have reached the 2 1 day mark today. that family is now off the watch list. four of the kids went wac to school today. the school superintendent says they were obviously eager to get back to class. also, the united states part of this crisis seems to have turned a more positive corner, at least for today. is it dpood news to look at this today. can we tell if we've fruly turned the corner? joining us now is dr. zee zeek emanuel. doctor, nice to see you again. >> lovely to be here. >> is it fair to think of this

as a good day, as hard as it is to say, in ebola news? or we turning some sort of corner? >> it's a little early to say whether we're turning a corner. we have a lot of positive news going in the right direction. so directionally correct is the way to put it. i think you summarized it pretty well. they had no more ebola there so it was caught. a week ago, was said to be ebola-free. so we do have a number of elements of progress, i think. and, you know, whether this is exactly what tom frreiden said stopped in its tracks, we only have three or four people in the yoits who have the disease. and out of 300 million, that's a

pretty small number. >> honestly, more people who don't know they have it could be diagnosed here. remember, he got off a plane. he didn't have a fever. he was feeling well. he didn't know if he had the disease or not. he shows up a few days later in an emergency room with a fever. so the idea that we're going to seal the borders and keep oebl out is not going to happen. >> in terms of what would happen in this country if we got another patient, either because one of the people who's being monitored turns out to have been exposed and gets sick or the epidemic elsewhere. do you feel we have learned

enough just over the course of these past few weeks and how a person should be handled in chances for recovery that we bould do a better job than we did with mr. duncan? >> i don't think it's possible right now. it's usually coming from west africa with a fever and being put out on the street. personal protective equipment belter with a buddy system. i think we have learned something very rapidly. it's too bad we've had to make mistakes and nurses have had to get infected bf we did a better job of it and mr. duncan had to die. >> i wish we'd just put it in

the perspective with maybe possibly handing the specimen. besides being denied access to school. not an abundance of caution or hysteria. out of 300 million people. that is .0 6% of people in the country. >> well, mr. wills' comments, obviously, krieting not a research study, not even credible. they weren't even talking about -- they were talking about treating a patient who has confirmed ebola in a hospital. they wsht saying don't do it. they're saying wear a respirator. that's not the common opinion in the mid kal community.

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and restrooms. there was an incident involving the fan at the florida debate last week. there were tons of attention on the fan. and to capitalize on that, florida democrats have just turned the fan thing into what i think is a great campaign ad. it's sort of a normalish campaign ad until it gets to the end. then it has the perfect punch line. watch. [ fan running ] >> are we really going to debate about a fan? or are we going to talk about education and the environment and the future of our state? i mean, really? [ applause ] >> as far as -- >> it's going to be cool.

they said. florida democrats trying to get people skiekpsyched for the nex debate after the last one was. the state of massachusetts is trying to provide the strangest race of all. the race is between martha cokely and republican charlie baker. the two of them were expected to face off this thursday on a debate in western massachusetts. i say they were expected to, because late last week, martha cokely decided she would decline the invitation to that debate. her campaign pulled out of the debate citing a scheduling conflict. but that didn't mean it wouldn't happen. her declining would mean that

her republican opponent will get an hour of free airtime by himself, a week and a half before the election all because martha cokely decided she had something better to do than attend the debate. republican charlie baker will be appearing on thursday with no opponent to debate. is that true or false? [ buzz ] >> it's now false. that story about charlie baker getting a whole hour of tv time to himself was correct when it ran. martha cokely did pull out of the debate citing a scheduling conflict. and that did mean that charlie baker was going to be on air for an hour, but we reached out to the cokely campaign and they declared that her schedule cleared up. and so she will debate this thursday. she will not cede an entire hour

of airtime to her opponent. massachusetts, you won't have a one-person debate called the charlie baker show this week. sorry. amazing. that does it for us. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. one of the joys of my weekends have been seeing all the charlie baker ads and the martha cokely ads and of course the scott brown ads and all that stuff from new hampshire because it's all the same tv. >> watching people walking around dazed, wondering if democrats are going to lose that governorship again. well, elizabeth warren is now rushing to the rescue for the democrats in the senate, and we will count the votes in two weeks, but election day has already started for president obama and many othersho