>>> THE UNITED STATES SUPREME >>> THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAS ONCE AGAIN CREATED CHAOS. THE HIGH COURT ANNOUNCED IT WILL TAKE UP DONALD TRUMP'S IMMUNITY CLAIM IN LATE APRIL. THE TIMELINE COULD END THE POSSIBILITY OF HOLDING TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE FOR TRYING TO STEAL AN ELECTION BEFORE AMERICANS CAST VOTES IN ANOTHER ELECTION THIS NOVEMBER. THE COURT IS SET TO MAKE ONE OF THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL DECISIONS AND MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY AT THE PRECISE TIME WHEN AMERICANS ARE HUGELY DISTRUSTFUL OF THE INSTITUTION AND STILL REELING FROM THE COURT'S OTHER RECENT DECISIONS. BECAUSE OF THE COURT'S 2022 DECISION TO OVERTURN ROE V WADE, THE FUTURE OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE INCLUDING ABORTION AND
FERTILITY TREATMENTS IS NOW AT FERTILITY TREATMENTS IS NOW AT RISK. HERE IS WHAT THE COURTS DID IN THE PAST TWO YEARS. IT ENDED RACE-BASED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, IT BLOCKED GUN SAFETY LEGISLATION, IT ALLOWED BUSINESSES TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST LGBTQ PEOPLE. THIS COURT HAS RADICALLY, YOU NEUROTICALLY UPENDED AMERICAN LIFE. THERE IS ONE MAN WHO ALMOST MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF THIS. ADDISON MITCHELL McCONNELL THE
THIRD, OR MITCH TO HIS FRIENDS THIRD, OR MITCH TO HIS FRIENDS AND FOES ALIKE. SENATOR MITCH McCONNELL TOOK ONE OF THE MOST AND PRECEDENTED AND CONSEQUENTIAL STEPS IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE. >> REPUBLICANS, OVER THE FIGHT OF THE FUTURE OF THE SUPREME COURT. SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH McCONNELL SAID THERE WILL BE NO VOTE OR EVEN ANY HEARINGS BEFORE THE ELECTION ON ANY ONE PRESIDENT OBAMA NOMINATES TO REPLACE THE JUSTICE. A MECCA AFTER THE DEATH OF THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, MITCH McCONNELL ANNOUNCED HE WOULD NOT HOLD A HEARING ON ANY NOMINEE PRESIDENT OBAMA CHOSE TO REPLACE HIM. WHY? BECAUSE IT WAS AN ELECTION YEAR, HE SAID. >> Reporter: THE NEXT JUSTICE COULD FUNDAMENTALLY ALTER THE DIRECTION OF THE SUPREME COURT AND HAVE A PROFOUND IMPACT ON OUR COUNTRY. SO, OF COURSE, OF COURSE, THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE A AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE A SAY IN THE COURT'S DIRECTION. >> NO ONE IN MODERN HISTORY HAD EVER ACTUALLY STOLEN A SUPREME COURT VACANCY FROM A SITTING PRESIDENT UNTIL MITCH McCONNELL. THAT DECISION HAD A PROFOUND IMPACT ON THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY, TRUMP WON THE ELECTION THANKS TO THOSE VOTES FROM EVANGELICALS INTERESTED IN A SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT. HE WENT ON TO APPOINT NEIL GORSUCH TO THE SEED THAT HAD BEEN STOLEN FROM HIS PREDECESSOR. THE NEXT YEAR THEY APPOINTED BRETT KAVANAUGH TO THE BENCH AS WELL AND ANOTHER POTENTIAL ELECTION APPROACHED AND PEOPLE STARTED TO WONDER, WHAT WOULD MITCH McCONNELL DO IF ANOTHER VACANCY OPENED UP ON THE COURT? WOULD HE HELP CONFIRM A THIRD
TRUMP JUSTICE IN AN ELECTION TRUMP JUSTICE IN AN ELECTION YEAR? >> I WOULD FILL IT. >> I WOULD FILL IT. ON SEPTEMBER 18th OF 2020, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG PASSED AWAY, AND WITH LESS THAN TWO MONTHS UNTIL THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, MITCH McCONNELL RUSHED THROUGH THE APPOINTMENT OF AMY CONEY BARRETT. THAT IS HOW WE GOT THE RADICAL CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY COURT WE HAVE TODAY. THIS IS MITCH McCONNELL'S LEGACY. TODAY AND SENATOR McCONNELL ANNOUNCED HE WOULD REAP THAT MIGHT BE RETIRING FROM SENATE LEADERSHIP THIS NOVEMBER. >> I AM IMMENSELY PROUD OF THE COMPLIMENT I HAVE PLAYED SOME ROLE IN OBTAINING. HAVE ENOUGH GAS IN MY TANK TO THOROUGHLY DISAPPOINT MY CRITICS AND I INTEND TO DO SO WITH ALL THE ENTHUSIASM WITH WHICH THEY HAVE BECOME ACCUSTOMED. >> MITCH McCONNELL WILL NO LONGER BE RUNNING THE UPPER CHAMBER OF A FALLING OUT WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT, McCONNELL MAY BE TRYING TO WASH HIS HANDS
