MSNBC’s Todd Disparages Passage of Conservative Ballot Question Regarding Sharia Law
“This is the type of direct democracy people say they want. Sometimes you wonder,” MSNBC's Chuck Todd editorialized after a segment about conservative ballot initiatives that passed into law on Tuesday. Towards the bottom of the 9 a.m. EDT hour of “The Daily Rundown,” reporter Mara Schiavocampo looked at a handful of state ballot initiatives that voters had considered at the polls on Tuesday. Aside from Proposition 19 — the marijuana legalization measure which was rejected by California voters — Schiavocampo noted two conservative ballot questions that passed in Oklahoma: a measure declaring English the official language of the Sooner State and a measure forbidding consideration of Islamic sharia law or international law in rulings made by Oklahoma state judges. Schiavocampo insisted that “critics” — whom she failed to name — dismissed the ballot questions as “cultural wedge issues that were designed to bring conservatives to the polls.” [Video after page break] read more
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MSNBC’s Todd Disparages Passage of Conservative Ballot Question Regarding Sharia Law
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