impeachment impacting the court. congressman alexandria ocasio cortez saying republicans complete and utter incompetence is killing women and pregnant people across the u.s. we have fox news coverage this morning, and more on the fallout in washington. carley: ashley strohmier on the violence, ashley, good morning. a protest gnomic protest erupted the overturning of roe v. wade and continues throughout the week end. angeles friday, protesters throwing sticks at cars and things turned violent later that night when l.a.p.d. officers apparently assaulted with a makeshift blowtorch and fireworks. two people arrested in the incident, one charged with attempted murder on a police officer and in portland a group of marchers smashed windows and grew graffiti on downtown businesses. and a pro-life center in lynchburg, virginia, with graffiti and breaking windows of the building. in arizona in a large group of protesters were tear gassed after being asked to move back and didn t mo
economies mock putin and plan more sanctions against him. duncan: summer travel takes off with challenges on the road and in the air. reporter: i m donya bacchus as burbank airport where passengers are facing full flights and soaring prices. duncan: pride parades march across the country with new urgency and later it is a book that cast a spell on the world. tonight we look back at 25 years of harry potter mania. harry potter! arry this is the cbs weekend news from new york, with jericka duncan. duncan: good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. advocates on both sides of the abortion battle say their fight is not done. anti-abortion rights forces are vowing to use friday s supreme court ruling reversing 50 years of federal protection of abortion to push for near total bans in every state, while abortion rights groups promise to harness anger in the streets, turning it into action at the ballot box this november. a new cbs news poll taken right after t
duncan: christina what recourse do lawmakers have who are clearly not happy with this reversal? reporter: well, democrats including senator warren are advocating to add justices to the supreme court. the constitution doesn t specify a number and historically it the constitutio ranged anywhere from five to ten, although president biden previously said he would not support court packing. duncan: it started off originally with six, christina ruffini, thank you. it was a mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks that triggered the decision to overturn roe v. wade. caitlin huey burns is there in jackson tonight with more on what is next. good evening. reporter: good evening, jericka. well, the states attorney general will be the one to decide when mississippi s abortion ban goes into effect. and that could come any day now, her decision, and that comes as residents here and across the country are grappling with what comes next. emotions boiled over in south
the left one of the president to add justices to the spring court. carley: brooke singman is here, good morning, brooke. good morning carley, joey, elizabeth warren and congressman alexandria ocasio cortez are the supreme court has dramatically overreached its authority. this is a crisis of legitimacy. this court has lost legitimacy. i believe we need to get some confidence back in our court, and that means we need more justices. giving the bar extremism, the compromise of integrity affects court. at the far left democrats forcing the white house to spell out president biden stance on issues like court packing, listen. i ve been asked this before
under the rules set by this court. it s not to preserve the reputation of the court that i want to add justices. it s to rebalance a court that has been packed and stacked in an anti democratic direction. but is the answer to pack it in a slightly different way? well, i think packing is a pejorative term, the only reason i use it is specifically when a seat is left open simply becausejustice scalia died, and when no hearing is given to merrick garland when he was nominated to the court. the seat is kept open for a year. the court s size was basically cut from nine to eight for political reasons. right now, what i m suggesting is that it s not a perfect solution, but adding four justices would rebalance the situation. it s not perfect, butjust better than doing nothing. just one looming issue the supreme court is going to wrestle with,