politicsnation. today from essence festival in new orleans. tonight s lead, justice not served. less than a week after the nation marked the first anniversary of roe s reversal, our conservative majority supreme court handed down a series of regressive decisions. collectively ruling against young and vulnerable people in a diversifying nation. on affirmative action, decades of transformative tools for underrepresented, specifically black kids seeking a higher education. the court left them to their own devices. on president biden s plan to apply a modest relief to suffering student borrowers, the court ruled that the administration had overstepped its bounds. and on lgbtq rights, the court insisted that the right to deny business on religious grounds can be protected as freedom of speech. president biden yesterday after days of responding to these judicial attacks on social progress, laid the blame for this week s decision at the feet of conservative lawmakers and the justice
things. and it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. i didn t have a document per se. oh, gosh. an audio recording undercuts trump s pathetic defense in the classified documents case as the doj reportedly barrels forward on its investigation of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. also tonight, a supreme court victory for voters and democracy. in a defeat for republicans who wanted to strip state courts of any role in running federal elections and give politicians the final say. plus, ron desantis admits he wants to rewrite the constitution so that right-wing politicians can decide whether people born in this country can legally be considered u.s. citizens. we begin tonight with a frequent and losing strategy by the twice impeached, twice indicted former president. whenever he finds himself stuck in a perilous legal mess of his own making, he goes full orwell and just tells the world don t believe your lying eyes. stick with us, don t
observation of juneteenth as a federal holiday coming as our largest blue state has a historic conversation on reparations for its black residents. i am conflicted tonight. as i watch any number of republican politicians and voters pledge the enduring support for donald trump, seeking a return to the white house well facing a 37 count federal indictment after years of white racial grievance for political gain, paving the way for other gop politicians including the 2024 competitors to attack racial progress in public life. i struggle to justify why, in my mind, america deserves a day off for work, made possible by black history so many republicans now insist should be banned from our institutions. despite the conflict in, me i m still grateful to see that black history recognized at a national level. i just want to see our nation at large are in the holiday created in its name. me now is congressman barbara lee the democrat of california. currently running for the u.s. sen
off each of the 37 felony counts. trump is facing them over his handling of classified materials. right now, officials in miami and the u.s. secret service are on alert for any threats of violence on tuesday and beyond. what gives me the most pratas is the truly bottomless devotion to trump zone by the nation s most powerful republican lawmakers this weekend men and women who insist that they are beholden to law and order yet they ve already deemed trump innocent of all charges before he s even been arraigned. as usual, they are vocal to the point of zealotry about defending a rich white republican male with a history of subverting the law. at best, they are silent about the death of unarmed black americans killed by police, even civilians, like the women accused of killing aj owens, a mother of four, a week ago in florida. i will go there tomorrow to deliver the eulogy. my thoughts on that later. , plus all the latest developments on the trump indictment. all of that is toni
the united states of america. norah: former vice president mike pence jumps into the republican race for the white house, taking aim at his former boss, donald trump. i believe that anyone who put themselves the constitution should never be president of the united states. a florida woman is facing manslaughter at assault charges after a very disturbing shooting that is leading to new questions about the state stand your ground law. she had no weapon. she posed no imminent threat to anyone. the fight over transgender rights, meet 18 activist pushing back against a growing bounds on transgender care. what are you fighting for? the right to exist. speak of the vatican says pope francis is expected to be hospitalized for several days after undergoing abdominal surgery. norah: and rap icon tupac get some. usable musical we probably we hollywood walk of fame, the legendary tupac shakur. norah: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this we