rights la of the year to share his personal views about religion. but the problem is alito and the other right-wing justices are imposing their personal, moral and political beliefs on all of us. and new reports show how they re using made up plaintiffs in recent supreme court cases to do it. also tonight, new details on donald trump s efforts to over turn his election loss in arizona. amid new reporting that jack smith is giving close scrutiny to trump s clown car team of lawyers. plus america post dobbs. north carolina s 12 week abortion ban take effect as republicans in ohio make it much harder to protect abortion rights even though a majority of the ohioans support those protections. and we begin on the eve of the fourth of july. during a time in america where a lot of people are seeing their freedoms being taken away. and that is in large part due to the supreme court of the united states. mainly the court s six conservative judges whose decisions last week peeling
wedding websites for same sex couples. an application of the first amendment to civil rights law that could affect public accommodations perhaps even gay marriage access for many minority groups. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington where the supreme court just ended its urm with a conservative super majority flexing its muscle once again. this morning striking down the student loan forgiveness program with the chief justice writing in part the secretary of education asserts the heroes act. in a second major ruling today but perhaps even more far ranging consequences down the road the six conservatives, gorsuch writing the opinion saying the first amendment rights of a colorado website designer give her the freedom to refuse from accepting same sex couples from her business. in this case justice sotomayor read aloud a strongly worded dissent from the bench to emphasize her strong disagreement. writing in part, lgbt people have existed for all of human history. and as s
it is topsy-turvy live news event kind of day. case in point, in a matter of about two minutes, we expect to hear from president biden. he will address the nation live on a number of topics, not the least of which is the abrupt stepback our country took today away from fairness and progress toward intolerance and discrimination. the conservative supreme court ruled 6-3 in favor of a colorado web designer, an evangelical named lori smith who refused to work on same sex weddings. the court said that the first amendment protected her from punishment. and it is a turning point decision that will flip the state of equal protections on its head and allow business owners to likewise evade punishment under similar laws in 29 states. and in the longer term, it could again signal a threat to the landmark decision of the 2015 case establishing the case of same sex couples to marry. and if you are wondering of the same sex couple, what they are doing, after being denied basic human decen
also, as crowds hit the beach to try to find relief from the oppressive heat, california officials are warning about toxic algae that s apparently leaving marine animals sick and aggressive. . and fallout from the supreme court s controversial and consequential rulings on discrimination, student loans, and affirmative action. will the decisions energize voters in 2024? we will not go back. i will be dead in my grave before i ll be a slave again. we are going to keep on marching. okay, let s begin this hour with more on former president donald trump s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. the washington post reports trump spoke with then arizona governor doug ducey and tried to pressure that governor to overturn his narrow loss in that state according to three people familiar with the call. two of those people say trump repeatedly asked vice president mike pence to call governor ducey and prod him to find evidence to substantiate trump s fr
ted lieu was in the middle of that history. his reaction to what she said at the trump rally saturday, in just a few minutes. a very good day to all of you from nbc news here in los angeles. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we have some breaking news this holiday weekend, two mass shootings overnight, seven people injured in wichita, kansas, and 30 in baltimore, where two people died. in wichita, police seized eight firearms close to the scene which appears to be a club. one person is in custody. the shooting in baltimore took place at an annual neighborhood block party. nbc s marissa joining me now from outside one of the baltimore hospitals where victims are being treated there. there was, that welcome. what more are you learning? alex, just to summarize some of what we know as of this morning, we know that there were 13 victims, including two dead, 28 others injured and several of those injured in critical condition as of this morning. in fact, within the