this is a culmination of an anonymously long and contentious debate gives it a sense about the importance of this decision as you look back over 50 years. it is profoundly important. justice mentioned in his opinion, that decision roe v wade is primarily response over the culture war that ensued. it did a normative damage to the cultural view get these scenes. was justice byron white said from the dissent from that decision it was a raw exercise of judicial power. that is quite the beginning of judicial activism. the most extreme expression of judicial activism. yet we find rights and the law that don t exist, are not really supportable by legislation. that to set up a long friending 50 year battle in the united states. what happened to happen there s no that is going to change. what has changed here i think is that with this opinion the majority have established legitimacy of supreme court and the fact it does have to adhere to the text of the constitution. cannot make up
we begin with the fallout from the historic supreme court ruling. the conservative majority overturned roe v. wade and ended the constitutional right to an abortion. in a narrow vote, this decision reverses nearly 50 years of court precedent. the reaction was swift and emotional. everything from victory celebrations to outrage outside of the nation s highest court. writing for the majority, justice samuel alito argued quote, roe was egregiously wrong from the start, its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and its decision has had damaging consequences, and far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, roe and casey have inflamed debate and deepened division. abortion rights lie with the states and the impact on women will be immediate and far reaching. nearly half of all states have trigger laws or other plans in place to ban or severely limit abortion starting now. president biden calls the decision a tragic error. state law is banning abortion are aut
one of the california planned parenthood. live from cnn center, this is cnn cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. and we begin in ukraine where two largest cities are taking fire from russia heavy weapons. in kyiv the mayor says a number are trapped after a missile attack earlier this morning. he says at least two people have been hospitalized. ukraine s air force says russia hit the city with at least four missiles launched from strategic bombers. while in kharkiv, officials say russian artillery again pummeled residential areas leaving at least two injured, a number of apartment buildings were truck along with a medical facility. and regional official says russia may be preparing a ground attack in eastern donetsk region. he says russia is massing forces there including armored vehicles. and in germany, f 7 g7 leade are gathering. we saw president biden arrive for a meeting with chancellor scholz. and dominating the agenda of course is russia s war in ukraine. there is
it s important to be out here and do this. so, we re actually gonna take you to some of the states throughout the country that are feeling the heat with some of these trigger laws that are now in place. 26 states in total, by the end of the month it sees a least 30 days or so yo have these laws in place for banning abortion. the country will look different than it does right about now. as we see, i just want to give you a lay of the land right now. before we move on. now, there s this protest that is continuing to grow here. throughout the morning, started a pretty small, as i, said it s really kind of day three of the protests. after the decision was delivered. it s continuing to grow. the signs are continuing to grow. the passion, the, emotion it s continuing to grow throughout the last hour or so as many of you have witnessed ourselves as a confrontation happening between women that are for abortion rights versus people that are anti-abortion rights. that type of thing
reentered the building. accounts vary as to what exactly happened next but it seems clear nicole bare s employees were let inside by an ally within the building. that would be a freshman member of congress from massachusetts jake. once on federal property colbert s employees did what they claim do which was disrupt the business of congress and apparently they were not subtle about doing it. they pounded on doors and yelled. whatever they did, it got people s attention. it takes an awful lot for a police force controlled by nancy pelosi to arrest a group of entertainment figures. but that s exactly what happened next. capitol hill police arrested seven colbert employees and brought them to jail. all seven of them were charged with unlawful entry. that s the identical charge that hundreds of january 6th defendants have been prosecuted for. but, unlike january 6th defendants colbert s employees were not sent to jail for a year and a half in solitary confinement they were release